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Javier Mar
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Javie is the Head of Clinical Management Unit of the Hospital Alto Deba and coordinator of the West Gipuzkoa Health Research Unit, encompassing Zumarraga, Mendaro and Alto Deba hospitals from 1992 to 2013. His research line is the economic evaluation of clinical decisions both diagnostic and therapeutic. His latest publications deal with the epidemiology and economic evaluation in neurological and chronic diseases. He is specialized on the developing and applying population models built with discrete event simulation to calculate the budget impact analysis of health programs. He has applied this approach to thrombolysis for stroke, use of hyaluronic acid in knee osteoarthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer screening and bariatric surgery. He has published 44 papers (26 in international journals and 18 in national journals) and two books in the last 12 years.