CURRICULUM VITAE

of the author Dr. Zikopoulos Athanasios

 

 

 

Author’s Academic Background

 

2001–2004                              Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

University of South Australia, Adelaide SA, Australia

                                                In parallel to full-time employment

 

                                                Doctoral Thesis:

Improving corporate performance by better use of Pharmacoeconomics in Switzerland

 

1999–2001                              Master of Business Administration (MBA),

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

In parallel to full-time employment

 

Master Thesis:

Leadership Development: Building a bridge between theoretical concepts and practice through the evaluation and appraisal of Merck’s leadership development programme

 

1984-1988                                                              Master of Sciences (Dipl. Natw. ETH)

Mains subjects: Biochemistry / Molecular Biology / Immunology

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

(Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

 

Master Thesis:

Allelic and Isotypic Exclusion of T-Zell-Receptor-Genes in TCR-Beta-Chain Transgenic Mice

 

 

Author’s Professional Career

 

01.09.2002 -                           General Manager

                                               Mundipharma Medical Company

                                               Affiliate of the Purdue / Mundipharma / NAPP Group of companies

 

01.08.2001 – 31.07.2002       Senior Manager Health Care Affairs Switzerland /

                                               Head Marketing HIV & Platelet Aggregation Mid-Europe Region

                                               Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret AG (MSD)

 

01.08.2000 – 31.07.2001       Senior Manager Health Care Affairs (External / Health Care Affairs)

                                               Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret AG (MSD)

 

17.02.1997 – 31.07.2000       National Sales Manager (Sales)

                                               Merck Sharp & Dohme-Chibret AG (MSD)     

                                               Therapy – Areas: Cardiovascular, Asthma, Rheumatology

 

01.08.1994 - 31.01.1997        Group Product Manager (Switzerland) (Marketing)

Pharmacia 

 

01.10.1991 – 31.07.1994       Product Manager (Switzerland) (Marketing)

                                               Pharmacia

 

01.09.1989 – 30.09.1991       Area Manager / Product Specialist (Sales)

                                               Pharmacia

Author’s Additional Assignments

 

§                     Lecturer (Privatdozent Praxis) at ZfU – International Business School, Thalwil (ZH), Switzerland; main topics: pharma marketing with focus on pharmacoeconomics

 

§                     Lecturer at Donau-University Krems – Austria (Master in Pharmaceutical Management, Main topic: pharmacoeconomics)

 

§                     Project leader pharmacoeconomics of the interdisciplinary communication group INTERPHARMA / VIPS (the two pharmaceutical associations in Switzerland)

 

 

 

Author’s Publications

 

§                     Zikopoulos A.Pharmacoeconomics for the Pharmaceutical Industry in Europe: A literature Review. Int J Pharm Med 2003; 17 (5-6), 201-209

 

§                     Pircher H, Ohash P, Miescher G, Lang R, Zikopoulos A, Bürki K, Mak T W, MacDonald HR, Hengartner H. T cell receptor beta chain transgenic mice: studies in allelic exclusion and on the TcR+ gamma/delta population. Eur. J. Immunol. 1990.20: 417-424

 

 

 

 

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