
Dr. Sebastian Schneeweiss
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School He is a physician, pharmacoepidemiologist, and healthcare data scientist with over 20 years of experience evaluating biopharmaceuticals' real-world effectiveness.

About this speaker
Dr. Sebastian focuses on advancing causal inference by developing and implementing a data-adaptive pipeline designed to analyze complex healthcare databases quickly. Driven by a mission to deepen our understanding of drug effects, he aims to facilitate value-based healthcare transactions. Currently, Dr. Schneeweiss holds dual roles as a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics within the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He leads a globally recognized research and training center comprised of 30 faculty members and 80 staff.
Additionally, he co-founded Aetion, Inc., an innovative healthcare analytics company that leverages software for advanced insights. With over 600 peer-reviewed publications, numerous prestigious awards, and fellowship elections to several professional societies, Dr. Schneeweiss continues to be a prominent leader in the fields of pharmacoepidemiology and healthcare data science.