Carlos Rubio Terrés is Director of HEALTH VALUE, Health Economics & Research of Outcomes Consulting, in Madrid, Spain. He holds a master’s degree in Pharmacology from the School of Medicine of University of Barcelona, a degree in Pharmacoeconomics from the National School of Public Health in Madrid, and a bachelor´s degree in Biological sciences from the University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. Over the past three decades he has held various positions in the fields of drugs evaluation and pharmacoeconomics, including Technical advisor at the Pharmacobiology National Centre, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, and the Drug Evaluation Unit, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain. He has also served as a member of the Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Health, in Brussels. He holds various positions (Regulatory Affairs Manager, Scientific Services Manager, Pharmacoeconomics Manager) in a number of pharmaceutical companies (Lederle, Wyeth, Aventis).
Carlos Rubio Terrés is currently a reviewer for numerous medical and economic journals, including the British Medical Journal, and a member of the Editorial Committee of Pharmacoeconomics Spanish Research Articles (Adis International) and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Speaker´s Bureau. He has published 279 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on pharmacoeconomics, meta-analysis, decision analysis, regulatory affairs, clinical trials, statistical design of health research, pharmacology and toxicology, and numerous communications and posters at conferences.