Experience

Interpharma

• Switzerland
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Secretary General

  • Oct 2007 - Present

• Interim Director

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

• Head of Issue Management

  • Jul 2004 - Sep 2007

• Information Manager

  • Jan 1997 - Jun 2004



Federal Medicines Commission

• Member

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  Before inclusion in the positive list of reimbursed products each medicine is assessed in a health technology appraisal process. The role of the Federal Medicines Commission is to give a recommendation to the Federal Office of Public Health on the reimbursement and pricing of new drugs or new indications of a drug. Heiner Sandmeier represents the pharmaceutical industry in this appraisal body.



Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gesundheitspolitik

• Board Member

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  The Swiss Society for Health Policy is an independent multi-stakeholder platform to promote health care reform. It unites professionals from parliament, government, academia, professional organisations of health care providers as well as health insurers and pharmaceutical industry.



radiz

• Advisory Board Member

  • Jul 2013 - Dec 2018

  CRPP radiz - Rare Disease Initiative Zurich is a clinical research priority program of the University of Zurich, a collaboration between the Children's Hospital Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the University Hospital Zurich.



University of Basel

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jan 1990 - Dec 1996

  National Science Foundation project on strict anaerobic oral bacteria: Identification of methanogenic archae and of sulfate-reducing bacteria using elective culturing techniques and phylogenetic studies. Teaching in microbiology courses and guiding students for diploma and doctoral thesis. Biosafety Officer of the institute.Summer school on „Microbial Diversity“ in 1992 and course on “Molecular Evolution” in 1995 at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.



Senate Commission 'Mensch-Gesellschaft-Umwelt' of the University of Basel

• Commission Member

  • Apr 1989 - Dec 1996

  Representative of the assistents of the faculty of natural sciences in the 'Regenzkommission Mensch-Gesellschaft-Umwelt', a commission of the Senate of the University of Basel to set up an interdisciplinary project for teaching and research on environmental and sustainablity issues.



Biocenter, Universtity of Basel

• PhD Student

  • 1986 - 1990

  PhD thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Werner Arber on a bacterial site-specific recombination system.



Nationale Suisse

• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee

• IT Programmer/Analyst

  • Apr 1979 - Apr 1986

  Software developer (COBOL and ALGOL) for an insurance company. Several full work assignments around bachelor and master studies at the university (altogether 2 years 10 months work experience).