Mercedes Martínez Vallejo

Pharmacist, Hospitalary pharmacy specialist, She has developed responsibility roles in the Ministry of Health of Spain as Head of Foreing Services Inspection and Control of Drugs (2years), Head of Economy of Medicines and Technical Advisor for Pricing & Reimbursement of Medicines Decision Making Process at the Ministry of Health Pharmacy Department, as an assessor of the national Pricing Committee (13 years), and Chief of Section of Health Professionals Qualifications Recognition in the European Union Unit.

Regarding the private sector, in the pharmaceutical industry, she held the position of Pricing and Health Economics Manager in Laboratories Servier (2,6 years), and she has extensive experience as Consultant (partial-time), on Regulatory, Pricing and Market Access of Medicines. She is an expert in Market Access Business Intelligence of Medicinal Products, with Deep knowledge about rules, procedures and key stakeholders involved for P&R and Market Access of pharmaceuticals in Spain and high knowledge of that in all the main EU countries. She also has a very high expertise and knowledge about breakthrough therapies since 2000, Creative and Strategic Thinking for knowing how to best position them to get Market Access and best price, in a comparative way with the competitors in the pipeline.

She holds a Masters in health services management and Pharmacoeconomics. Additionally she is a speaker/presenter in global forum.