Petros Pechlivanoglou, PhD

Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto

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Petros Pechlivanoglou, PhD, is a senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation. He studied economics in his native country, Greece, econometrics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and obtained a PhD in health econometrics from the same university.

He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, within the Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative where he focused on methodological aspects around the application of decision analysis in health-care policy.

Dr. Pechlivanoglou’s research interests focus on methods and applications of decision analysis in health economics, bridging evidence synthesis, administrative data and decision analysis, and the application and extension of predictive models in health economics.

He has received funding from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Canadian Respiratory Research Network, and more recently, the Ontario Early Researcher Award to work on projects around the economics of pre-term birth prevention, the economic evaluation of oncology interventions in children and adolescents, the use of decision analysis in paediatric clinical trial design, and the economic impact of COPD in adults.


## Education

  • 2013–2015
    Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    Postdoctoral Fellow • Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics
  • 2007–2012
    University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    PhD • Pharmacoeconomics
    Unit of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics, Faculty of Pharmacy
  • 2005–2007
    University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    M.Sc. • Econometrics
    Faculty of Economics
  • 2001–2005
    University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
    B.Sc. • Economics
    Faculty of Economic Sciences


Experience

I develop and apply methods in health economics and decision analysis to improve policy and clinical decision-making in child health. My group bridges real-world data, survival and multistate modeling, and value-of-information analysis to quantify long-term health and economic outcomes, with current applications in paediatric oncology and perinatal care.

The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, ON
  • Senior Scientist (2022–Present)
  • Scientist (2015–2022)
University of Toronto — IHPME, Dalla Lana School of Public Health — Toronto, ON
  • Associate Professor (2022–Present)
  • Assistant Professor (2016–2022)
ICES — Cancer Research Program, University of Toronto — Toronto, ON
  • Adjunct Scientist (2020–Present)
Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative — Toronto, ON
  • Health Economist (2013–2015)
University of Groningen — Unit of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics — Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Assistant in Training (AIO) (2010–2012)
  • Research Associate (2007–2010)