Dr. Fabio Efficace
Dr. Fabio Efficace is a health outcome researcher leading a number of international projects in the area of onco-haematology. He heads the Health Outcomes Research Unit (http://promotion.gimema.it) of the GIMEMA Data Center (Italy) and is also the Chairman of the GIMEMA Working Party of Quality of Life. He has a long-standing experience in designing and analysing quality of life and data from haematological clinical trials and observational studies.
He is a member of the Scientific Board of the GIMEMA and a former Board member of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group and of the Board of Directors of the “International Society for Quality of Life Research” (ISOQOL).
His work has focused primarily on the development of methods for assessing quality of life in a cross-cultural context, and on the integration of quality of life assessments into clinical research and routine practice settings. He has been awarded several international prizes in the area of health outcomes research in oncology and has given lectures in several top academic institutions and scientific societies in the USA and Europe including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, University of Pittsburgh, State University of New York, as well as European Hematology Association (EHA) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH).