Team

President, CEO, and Founder

Mr. Smolen has successfully led and is currently leading over $9.73 million of projects and grants. These include over 115 commercial modeling and evidenced-based projects with leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as university medical centers. He is currently/formerly Principal Investigator for six National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and development grants. Each of these projects and grants involves(d) the integration, analysis, and presentation of clinical evidence as well as quantitative analysis of the benefits and costs of pharmaceuticals or medical devices. Mr. Smolen is the founder of MDM, and has over seventeen years experience applying computer simulation and other techniques to analyzing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions. Mr. Smolen is a study section member of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies review group as well as a member of the NIH Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging, and Bioengineering review group. He has also been a peer reviewer for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command and the NIH's Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics group. He is an active member in the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), as well as a frequent journal reviewer for Value in Health, Medical Decision Making, and Health Policy. He earned an MS from Purdue University in Industrial Engineering with a concentration in healthcare computer simulation and a BS from the University of Southern California in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in computer systems.

Lead Decision Analyst

Mr. Klein has over 30 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 March of 1999, Mr. Klein has overseen the design and analysis of all pharmacoeconomic models the company has developed. Mr. Klein has authored or co-authored 24 peer-reviewed publications and more than 30 abstracts related to modeling. Prior to joining MDM, Mr. Klein was the Decison Analyst for the Bowen Research Center at Indiana University (1997-1999) and held several positions at the Regenstrief Institute for Healthcare (1979-1997). He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM). He is an active journal reviewer for ISPOR's Value in Health and SMDM's Medical Decision Making. Mr. Klein holds three degrees from Purdue University: a Master's degree in Applied Statistics, a Bachelor's degreee in Industrial Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics.

Lead Software Developer

Lee has over 29 years experience in the design, development, and implementation of software systems, concentrating on the modeling of interactive processes. He has led all MDM pharmacoeconomic software design projects for the past eleven years. During his tenure with MDM he has directed the development of of a variety of health outcomes-related software projects, including budget impact models, cost-effectiveness analysis models, disease progression models, and customized analysis tools. Lee has designed and developed projects in a number of software design environments and for a number of disease areas. The design environments include MDM's Java-based CafeSIM development environment; TreeAge; and Microsoft Visual Basic, Excel, and Access products. Lee has worked in a diverse range of disease areas, including: osteoporosis, urology, oncology, neuroscience, cardiology, and diabetes. In terms of model structure and design, he has implemented medical decision models as decision trees, Markov chains, Monte Carlo-based microsimulations, and time-to-event simulations. 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 iplementation 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.

Senior Decision Analyst, Software Developer

Mr. Furiak has 9 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.

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.

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.

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 has recently completed his Master's Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

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.

Research Analyst

Mr. Graham started at MDM in September 2008. He earned a Master's Degree in Medical Science from Drexel University after obtaining a B.A. in Chemistry from Wabash College. He previously researched at Thomas Jefferson University while earning his M.M.S.

Research Analyst

Ms. Petrack joined MDM in October 2008. She earned her Master's Degree in Medical Science from Drexel University after graduating cum laude from Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biology. She previously did research at Jefferson Medical College's Kimmel Cancer Center while working on her M.M.S.

Health Economics Research Analyst

Ms. Bansal joined MDM in June 2009. She obtained her B.A (H) and M.A. degrees in Economics from India. She completed a second M.A. from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) in May 2009 with more emphasis on applied economics and econometric modeling. Previous to MDM, she worked with The Regenstrief Institute Inc., Indianapolis for 2 years as a graduate assistant.