Maria Koltowska-Haggstrom, MD, PhD
Maria Koltowska-Häggström, MD, PhD is Medical Director at KIGS/KIMS/ACROSTUDY Medical Outcomes, Pfizer Endocrine Care in Sollentuna, Sweden. Since 2001, Maria has been responsible for two large observational surveillance studies - KIMS® and ACROSTUDY®, containing data on more than 14 000 and almost 1000 patients, respectively. Maria is a leading member of numerous research groups investigating growth hormone disorders in adult patients managed in the real-life clinical setting. This has given her the unique opportunity, not only to study pituitary disorders in large cohorts of patients, but also to develop the skills associated with utilizing large databases for scientific work, in particular the complex data analyses required. She has also gained a wide experience in different ways of data presentations i.e. oral and poster presentations as well as publications. Her 28 peer-reviewed papers were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, European Journal of Endocrinology, Clinical Endocrinology, Growth Hormone and IGF Research, Hormone Research, Value in Health, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Polish Journal of Endocrinology and Management Issues (Warsaw University). She is a member of the Endocrine Society, the European Society of Endocrinology, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the International Society for Quality of Life Research.
