37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

October 18 - 21, 2015

Francisco J. Díez, PhD

Prof.
UNED
Artificial Intelligence
Dept. Artificial Intelligence. UNED
Juan del Rosal, 16
Madrid Spain 28040

Biographical Sketch: Francisco Javier Díez was born in Burgos, Spain, in 1965. He earned a degree in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a PhD at the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED). In 1992 he was a visiting scholar at UCLA, invited by Prof. Judea Pearl, and in 2013 at the Centre for Health Economics of the University of York, UK, invited by Prof. Mark Sculpher. He is currently Associate Professor—accredited as Full Professor—at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at UNED and director of the Research Centre for Intelligent Decision-Support Systems (CISIAD). His research focuses on probabilistic graphical models and their application to medical decision making, including Markov models and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Papers:
COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS WITH MARKOV INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF PLEURX® CATHETER VS. TALC PLEURODESIS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSIONS: A MARKOV MODEL