Who are we
Andrew F. Smith, PhD, FARVO
President
Email: Andrew.Smith@MedMetricsinc.com
Qualifications:
BA, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
MSc (Health Economics) University of Aberdeen, Scotland
MSc (Eye Health) University of London, England
PhD (Public Health & Health Economics) University of London, England
The research team at MedMetrics Inc, is directed by Dr. Andrew F. Smith. Dr. Smith has over 28 years experience in health economics and epidemiological research in the USA, Canada and Europe as well as over 100 plus publications in a number of peer reviewed journals and scientific meetings. From 2001 to 2007, prior to establishing MedMetrics Inc., Dr. Smith was Regional Health Economics Manager for Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa for Alcon Laboratories Ltd., and was responsible for epidemiologic, health economics and outcomes research activities related to market access, market support, pricing and reimbursement issues across a wide range of both ocular pharmaceutical and medical device products.
A graduate of McGill University and the Faculty of Medicine, University of London, England. Dr. Smith is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at King’s College London, UK (2014-Present). During the academic year 2013-2014, Dr. Smith was a visiting Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Bath in England. Previously Dr. Smith has been an Adjunct Professor (Health Economics) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2008-2012). In addition, Dr. Smith has held appointments at the following academic centers: The Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford (1995-2009); University of Michigan (1998-1999); Wills Eye Hospital (1999-2001); Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London (1994-1995); and the Department of Economics, McGill University (1991-1992).
Dr. Smith has also been a consultant and instructor to a number of government and non-government bodies, medical research and/or education agencies and business organizations on topics related to epidemiology, health economics and health services research. Dr. Smith is a member of The Royal Statistical Society; a Fellow of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO); The Royal Economic Society; as well as the American and Canadian Economic Associations.
Currently, Dr. Smith is an Adjunct Professor (Health Economics & Epidemiology) in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Colin Vibert, BSc., MSc. (A.Stat.)
Business Development & Statistical Research Consultant
Email: colinvibert@acadiau.ca
Qualifications:
BSc, MSc (Math & Statistics) Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Based in the Annapolis Valley, Colin completed both his undergraduate and post-graduate training in mathematics and statistics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Colin is an Associate Statistician of the Canadian Statistical Society (A.Stat.) and has previous experience in conducting systematic literature reviews, a full range of statistical analyses, meta-analysis techniques, time series analyses, generalized linear models, linear regression modelling and logistic regression. More recently Colin has gained valuable experience working on publications while in the biopharmaceutical sector.
Colin’s specific technical skills include the following:
Software & Tools: AWS S3, Monday, Jira, ClickUp, Maple, Power BI, Excel,
LaTeX, Jupyter Notebooks, Slack, RMarkdown, Word, Powerpoint,
Conversion.ai, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Canva
Languages: R, Python
Libraries and Packages: Tensorflow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, xts, mts, forecast, prophet
Subject Areas: Business Development, Project Management, Systematic Literature Reviews, Time Series Analysis, Survival Analysis, GLMs, Experimental Designs, Survey Design, Survey Sampling, Confidence Intervals
Peter Gerges, MD, CMLE, MSc (Epid.), MBA
Research Manager and Epidemiological Consultant
Qualifications:
MD (M.B. Ch.B.), University of Alexandria, Egypt
CMLE, (Certified Medico-Legal Expert) University of Laval, Quebec, Canada
MSc (Epid.) University of Laval, Quebec, Canada
MBA, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Gerges conducted his basic medical training at the University of Alexandria in Egypt. Since moving to Canada, Dr. Gerges has undertaken post-graduate training in epidemiology and healthcare administration at the University of Laval in Quebec city. Dr Gerges has primarily been involved in a wide range of applied epidemiological and healthcare research and his expertise lies in conducting systematic and targeted literature reviews as well as conducting meta-analyses, reviewing methodologies and allied statistical packages, such as RevMan. Dr. Gerges is based in Quebec city and is fluent in English, French and Arabic.
Megan Kennedy, BA, MLIS
Evidence Synthesis Consultant
Qualifications:
BA, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
MLIS, University of British Columbia, Canada
Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Megan Kennedy is a health sciences librarian with over 5 years of experience conducting systematic searches for systematic, scoping, and other types of synthesis reviews. Ms. Kennedy completed her MLIS at UBC in 2016 and since then, has supported over 50 different review projects. Ms. Kennedy is highly skilled in a range of advanced searching methods and has extensive knowledge of common health sciences databases including Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library. Ms. Kennedy is also very knowledgeable about reference management software, such as EndNote, and systematic review software, such as Covidence.