Katarzyna Kolasa

Katarzyna Kolasa PhD

Professor of Health Economics at Kozminski University Warsaw Poland

Digital Health Start Me Up Course leader

Digital Health SIG founder at International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)

Driven with passion to improve healthcare, Katarzyna has focused her academic and business career on the health economics.

She has been working with multiple pricing & reimbursement challenges worldwide for the last 25 years, while holding various Regional and Global leadership positions at Astra Zeneca, BMS, Biogen Idec, Lundbeck, GE Healthcare, Straub Medical, BD and the Swedish county council of Kalmar. Katarzyna is mentor and consultant to start ups involved in the development of innovative medical devices and digital health solutions from both Holland and Poland.

Since 2000 she has been academic teacher and supervisor for over 30 MBA and Phd students. In partnership with the Polish Medical Research Agency, Deloitte Digital and the Polish Central Hospital of Ministry of Interior Affairs she founded the first Digital Health six months educational program designed for digital transformation leaders working in the healthcare sector. Katarzyna developed innovative Master Program Health Economics & Big Data (HEBDA) which first edition was financed by EU Power Grant 2018 as well.

She is the founder of the Global Special Interest Group Digital Health and short courses “The Role of Digital Endpoints in the Value Generation for Health Technologies”, “Risk-Sharing/Performance-Based Arrangements in Developing Countries” at International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). She is the current member of Educational and post member of Health Science Policy Councils at ISPOR as well.

Katarzyna has dedicated her academic research towards the methodological advancements into the value assessment of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health solutions. Passionate about Big Data, she led the first project of machine learning adaptation for the optimal utilization of CT scanners granted by the Polish Ministry of Health as well. Since January 2022, she is the leader of AI special interest group at the Polish Chamber of Physicians. With the patronage of the Polish Parliamentary Commission for Innovation & Digitalization, she organized the first dialog about the societal preferences towards the adoption of AI in the healthcare in Poland.

Being coauthor of more than 50 IF publications, she presented her research at more than 60 international scientific conferences. As of 2022, Google Scholar reports over 730 citations to her work.