Fadia T. Shaya PhD, MPH, is a Tenured Professor in Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is also Director of Research at the Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions and Associate Director for the Center on Drugs and Public Policy.  Prior to that, she worked in health care consulting in Washington DC, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Health Planning Commission in Paris, France and at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Dr. Shaya has expertise in formulary development and management. She has built research capacity to support all stages of drug development and policy, from pre-clinical trials to post-marketing surveillance. She has experience in developing clinical, economic, policy, decision analysis and budget impact models. She works with state, commercial and Medicare plans, to guide drug formulary management, specifically relating to oncology, cardiovascular disease and COPD. Her extra-mural research is supported by federal, commercial and foundation grants and contracts.

A member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, she also serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Medical Economics, the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, Expert Review in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, and P&T. She is a reviewer for and has published in peer-reviewed journals, including Circulation, The Lancet, Health Affairs and Archives of Internal Medicine. She has reviewed over 300 papers for publication in these journals and has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed science journals. She regularly presents at national and international scientific and policy meetings, with over 250 presentations and posters to date. She has also been an invited speaker at Harvard Medical School, the Johns Hopkins University, the Institute of Medicine and various other federal, academic or industry venues. Her current research focuses on the implementation of new Medicare policies, comparative effectiveness, survival analysis, propensity scores modeling and applications to clinical decision-making and coverage decisions.

Dr. Shaya has served as the Chair of the State of Maryland Governor’s Advisory Council on Hepatitis C and Diseases of the Liver, and heads the MVP (Men’s Cardiovascular Health) Program and has served as the Co-PI of a large grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to develop and implement a research partnership program between academia and the community.

She serves on the Advisory Council for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Food and Drug Administration, the Board of the Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care (also chairing the Education, Performance and Evaluation Committee and serving on the Compliance Committee),  the Quality Health Foundation, and the HSVR Review Panel study section for the Agency for Health Quality Research (AHRQ). Her translational medicine work is based on public-private partnerships and community engagement initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of chronic disease.

Dr. Shaya teaches various clinical and graduate policy courses and advises and mentors pharmacy, medical, PhD and post-doctoral students, supervising dissertations and projects. Her mentees have taken positions in government, academia, consulting and pharmaceutical companies.

She is a member of the Executive Council at the School of Pharmacy, the Faculty Senate, the Facutly Senate Advisory Committee, and the Council of University System Faculty (CUSF) at the University of Maryland. She has led the design of the new curriculum, serving as chair of the Curriculum Committee, and the Assessment Committee at the School. She has also chaired various search committees at the University and other organizations she serves.

Dr. Shaya obtained her PhD in Health Policy, Finance and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her doctoral health economics degree (DESS) from the Sorbonne University Paris-IX Dauphine and her MPH and BSc from the American University of Beirut.  She has also held a research position at the University of Manchester, England.

She is also very involved in her community, volunteers at Our Daily Bread and fund raising events for various health causes, having served on the Gilman School Board for 14 years (serving in various positions, e.g. co-chair of long-range plan, officer), now on the Board of the Bryn Mawr School and continues to hold many volunteer positions in Maryland. She is fluent (reading and writing) in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.