Akbar Abdollahiasl IFDA

Dr. Abdollahiasl is General Director of Pharmaceutical Affairs in Iran's Ministry of Health and assistant professor in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is a pharmacist and PhD of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration. While working in the pharmaceutical fields, he’s had the responsibility of management of medicinal supply chain, medical and pharmaceutical data analysis, pricing of pharmaceutical products and planning of NRA systems as well as the Head of Statistic and Planning Office in Iran Food & Drug administration. He has directed more than 20 research projects trying to find a system dynamics model for national drug policy or on subjects such as, Iran medicine’s prices, availability, affordability and price components (in corporation with HAI), essential medicines and pharmaceutical policies unit, pharmaceutical education in Iran and cost of different illnesses in Iran. He’s participated in some courses like Health Sector Reform course offered by American University of Beirut (2003-2004), Pricing and Reimbursement course offered by Vienna School of Clinical Researches (2005) and some MIS and data mining courses. In summery we can say he is one of the KOL of pharmaceutical fields in Iran.