As a Senior Data Scientist at Medlior, Cristiano is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of methodologies and standard operating procedures for study designs, data management, and data analysis.

He has over 15 years of experience conducting research investigations in the areas of pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety, and comparative effectiveness. Before joining Medlior, Cristiano was a Research Associate at the Centre for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation, McGill University. There he supervised research projects, prepared feasibility assessments for drug effectiveness and safety studies, designed protocols and analytical plans, and conducted statistical analyses using large administrative datasets (MarketScan, RAMQ, IC/ES, PopData BC, and CIHI).

He also wrote reports, conference abstracts, and scientific manuscripts. Cristiano earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, a Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences degree, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil.  His post-doctoral research was in pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University.