Mirza I. Rahman, MD, MPH, is the Senior Director of the Health Economics/Clinical Outcomes Research (HECOR) Group, in the Medical Affairs department at Centocor, Inc. This group helps to ensure the appropriate use of Centocor products by more clearly describing their benefit-risk profile, demonstrating their cost-effectiveness, and showing their overall positive impact on the lives of patients.

Prior to this; Dr. Rahman served as a Director in the Benefit-Risk Management department at Johnson & Johnson where his primary responsibility was to support the Biologics and Cardiovascular Therapeutic Area as the Safety Surveillance physician for a number of products, including Remicade™ (infliximab), Reopro™ (abciximab), Natrecor™ (nesiritide), Procrit™ (epoetin alfa), and Eprex™ (epoetin alfa).

Dr. Rahman serves as a volunteer Attending Physician preceptor in the Bryn Mawr Family Practice Residency Program; is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs Graduate Program at the Temple University School of Pharmacy; and serves as the voluntary medical editor for the monthly Guyana Journal and the weekly Carib-Sun newspaper, two periodicals published in New York for the Caribbean community.

Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Mirza was a Director at Merck & Co., Inc. in the Medical Services and Worldwide Product Safety & Epidemiology departments. He also served as a Senior Assistant Editor in the Merck Manuals department. Before joining Merck & Co., Inc., Dr. Rahman was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Ireland Cancer Research Center, and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Preceding this, he served as the Medical Director of the Tri-Community Health Center in Suffolk County, NY.

Dr. Rahman received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Stony Brook School of Medicine and earned his Masters of Public Health degree from the Columbia University School of Public Health. He is board certified in both Family Medicine and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Preventive Medicine.

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