ISPOR Brazil/Fundação Universidade UNIMED, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Dr. Stephen Stefani graduated from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Medical School, in Brazil, in 1994. He was clinically trained in Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology at the Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and attended the University of California San Francisco, as a clinical fellow. Holding an MBA in health business, he is a professor of the postgraduate course at the Fundação Universidade UNIMED. He also serves as a regular consultant to the major private health insurance company in Brazil, with over 70 companies in his portifolio. He is Coordinator of the Oncologic Drugs Benefits Program of the CAPESESP (self-financed insurance linked to Ministry of Health) and former Coordinator of the Oncology Unit of UNIMED (with 11 million people covered). He is also a founder of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomic and Outcome Research (ISPOR) Brazilian Chapter, current president elected of the local chapter and former chair of the Latin American Consortium Advisory Committee. He works as oncologist at the Grupo OncoClinicas.