| Name | Kourlaba Georgia |
|---|---|
| University | Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research |
| Country | Greece |
| Position | Editorial board member |
Georgia Kourlaba is the Associate Scientific Director of the non-profit company “Collaborative Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO)” focusing on control and prevention of healthcare associated infections. She earned her MSc in Biostatistics from the University of Athens and her Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology-Biostatistics from Harokopio University, in Athens, Greece. She has been teaching for 10 years, a year-long Research Methods postgraduate course at the Medical School, University of Athens.
Prior to joining CLEO in 2012, Dr Kourlaba had served as biostatistics research fellow in the Dietetics and Nutritional Science Department of Harokopio University and at the National School of Public Health, both in Athens, gaining research experience in the design and statistical analysis of cross-sectional studies, clinical trials and economic evaluation studies. She has published over 100 papers in international scientific journals and has received a significant number of references to her work (h-index per googlescholar: 26).
Her main experience and expertise include: economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, devices, and diagnostics; analysis and modeling of medical care costs; design and analysis of market research, epidemiologic studies and clinical trials. Her analytic experience includes Markov modeling, regression analysis, mediation analysis, meta-analyses, and longitudinal modeling. She has extensive experience building economic models in Excel, and developing user-friendly model interfaces. Her analytical skills include good mastering of SAS, R, STATA, and SPSS.
