Professor of Health Economics at Kozminski University Warsaw Poland Director of Digital Health Center at Kozminski ISPOR Digital Health SIG founder  Book Author “The Digital Transformation of the Healthcare System” Routledge; 1st edition (July 31, 2023)

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 has been Vice President of HEOR Modelling at Parexel heading the global team for two years. Currently she is a mentor for start ups involved in the development of inno-vative medical devices and digital health solutions from both Holland, Sweden 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”, “Methodological Ad-vancements for the Value Assessment of Digital Solutions”,  “Risk-Sharing/Performance-Based Arrangements in Developing Countries” at International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Out-comes Research (ISPOR).  She is the current member of Educational and post member of Health Science Policy Councils at ISPOR as well. In May 2024 Katarzyna has received scholarship from National Agency for Academic Exchange for four months research visit at the Univeristy of Utah in USA. In 2023, in collaboration with the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Deloitte, she orga-nized a 6-month course for startups in the field of digital health at Kozminski University."

Katarzyna has dedicated her academic research towards the methodological advancements into the value assessment of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health solutions. Passion-ate about Big Data, she led the first project of machine learning adaptation for the optimal utili-zation 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 dia-log 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 in-ternational scientific conferences. As of May 2024, Google Scholar reports over 900 citations to her work.