Team
Harry J. Smolen, M.S.
President, CEO, and Founder
Mr. Smolen has successfully led or is currently leading over 35 modeling projects with influential pharmaceutical and medical device companies and five National Institutes of Health research and development grants. Each of the projects and grants involved the integration, analysis, and presentation of clinical evidence to research and quantitatively analyze the benefits, risks, and costs of pharmaceuticals or medical devices. Mr. Smolen is the founder of MDM, and has over 13 years experience applying computer simulation techniques to analyzing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions. He earned an M.S. from Purdue University in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a concentration in healthcare computer simulation and a B.S. from the University of Southern California in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in computer systems.
Robert W. Klein M.S.
Lead Decision Analyst
Mr. Klein has over 29 years experience focusing on the application of discrete event simulation and other decision tools to the cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare problems. Since joining MDM in 1999, he has completed fifteen large-scale computer-modeling projects that evaluated the quantitative marketing strategies emphasizing the benefits and costs of various pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Prior to joining MDM, Mr. Klein was the Decision Analyst for the Bowen Research Center at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care. While at the Regenstrief Institute, Mr. Klein was the Decision Analyst for the Knee Replacement Patient Outcomes Research Team study funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (1991-1996). Mr. Klein holds three degrees from Purdue University: a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Applied Statistics, and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.
Lee J. Smolen, B.S.
Lead Software Developer
Mr. Smolen has over 27 years experience in the design, development, and implementation of software systems, concentrating on the modeling of interactive processes. He has led all MDM pharmacoeconomic and medical decision model software design projects for the past seven years. Previous to joining MDM, Mr. Smolen enjoyed a successful career as a Senior Computer Systems Engineer with the international technical services division of General Electric, heading software implementation projects in eight different countries over a 19-year period. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Nicolas M. Furiak, M.S.
Senior Decision Analyst, Software Developer
Mr. Furiak has 7 years of experience with MDM as a project designer, manager, researcher, and programmer. His specialty is in initiating research and design of new disease and therapeutic areas. He has led projects at MDM that include a disease state microsimulation for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), which was ultimately used to identify population segments and medical comorbities that coorelate with opportunities to improve care for GAD patients. Also, Mr. Furiak has lead MDM's research and design of a microsimulation for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. He has also served as co-investigator on several of MDM's NIH SBIR grant projects which included microsimulation of diabetes and its complications for use at the point of care and more recently, a discrete event simulation of hospital residency programs. Mr. Furiak earned his B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Ball State University in Physics specializing in research of stellar evolution.
Timothy M. Klein, B.S.
Software Programmer, Developer
Since starting with MDM in 2006, Mr. Klein has led MDM's efforts to leverage discrete event simulation techniques to simulate resource availability and usage in an emergency room setting, research funded by the NIH. Additionally, Mr. Klein has served as lead decision analyst on MDM's NIH Diabetes Modeling Project. He has also worked on standardization of software development in MDM's Java development toolkit and has advanced MDM's approach to software interfaces in Excel spreadsheets using Visual Basic. Mr. Klein earned his B.S. from Purdue University as a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Julie A. Myers, B.S.
Health Economics Research Analyst
Ms. Myers joined MDM in 2007. She has earned a B.S. in Biology from Purdue University with Academic Honors. She comes to MDM with experience as a researcher at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, IN. She is currently finishing her Master's Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Ron Wielage, M.A.
Health Economics Research Analyst, Programmer
Mr. Wielage joined MDM in 2007. He has over 15 years experience programming in a variety of languages and database management systems working principally in the health and life insurance fields. His educational background includes a B.M. from the University of Nebraska and M.A. from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is currently completing his Master's Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Christopher A. Bly, B.A.
Research Analyst
Mr. Bly joined MDM in November 2007. He has earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Wabash College. He previously worked as an analyst in the financial and mortgage industry. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Indiana University.
