Karam Diaby currently serves as the Director, Health Economics and Value Evidence Partnership at Otsuka. Prior to joining Otsuka, Karam Diaby, CRA, MSc, Ph.D., was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy (POP) in the University of Florida (UF) College of Pharmacy. He also served as the Track Director for the pharmaceutical outcomes and policy online M.S. degree where he oversaw the development and growth of the Applied Pharmacoeconomics track.
Karam graduated with a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Population Health) at University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and completed a coveted post-doctoral fellowship in health economics and decision sciences at the Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health – McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).
Over the past 10 years, Karam has developed and honed skills in decision analytic modeling for comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new health technologies to support value assessments. He is also skilled in the use of operations research for health care decision-making using multi-criteria decision analysis. He has some interests in the development of value assessment frameworks and the incorporation of health equity in such frameworks.
On a personal note, Karam and his best half have been married for 12 years and are blessed with two adorable boys, Moustapha (8 years old) and Imad (6 years). Karam enjoys cooking (West African, Mediterranean, European, American, Asian cuisines), watching movies, traveling, and martial arts.
