Nneka Onwudiwe | Founder And Chief Executive Officer
Pharmaceutical Economics Consultants of America (PECA) LLC

Nneka C. Onwudiwe, PhD, PharmD, MBA received her doctorate in Pharmacy (PharmD) from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, PhD in Health Services Research with a specialization in Pharmacoeconomics from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and an MBA (Honors) from the University of Baltimore. In addition, she received an honor of Rho Chi in Pharmacy in 2002 and an honor of Beta Gamma Sigma in Business Administration in 2012.
Dr. Onwudiwe is founder and CEO of Pharmaceutical Economics Consultants of America (PEÇΛ). Dr. Onwudiwe’s areas of specialization are public health and health economics. Her work focuses on a variety of projects related to costs and cost-effectiveness, coverage, management, and payment methods for innovative technologies
compliance with market-wide requirements of ACA, MHPAEA, and state laws.
Dr. Onwudiwe was the Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) and Pharmacoeconomics (PE) Regulatory Review Officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Dr. Onwudiwe teaches Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) & Pharmacoeconomics at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Dr. Onwudiwe has received several awards and accolades over the years. She has received funding as a Principal Investigator from NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Onwudiwe served on the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) Publications Peer Review Committee as well as a member of the ISPOR Value Assessment Frameworks Stakeholder Advisory Panel.
Dr. Onwudiwe has served on several ISPOR Scientific and Health Policy Working Groups (Task Forces and Special Interest Groups) that have developed products and tools used by decision makers and researchers around the world. She is currently serving on the Value Assessment of Medical Device Special Interest Group and Statistical Methods in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Special Interest Group. In addition to this work, Dr. Onwudiwe has presented at various professional conferences and published in several peer-reviewed journals such as Value in Health RegionalIssues,PharmacoEconomics,Spine,JournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation(JAMA),Obesity, Oncologist, Cancer Medicine, and Ethnicity and Disease.
Dr. Onwudiwe holds a license in pharmacy and practices in the community providing medication therapy management (MTM) and other services.
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