Dr. Bassem Toeama graduated in medicine and has worked in clinical medicine as an oncologist, in academia, in the education and capacity building industry, and in the pharmaceutical industry over the past 25 years. His experience has been primarily in oncology, health economics and outcomes research, medical writing and scholarly communications, pharmacovigilance, clinical research, basic science research, continuous medical education, and continuous professional development. He holds an MSc degree in Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Oxford, UK, an MSc degree in Experimental Medicine at McGill University, Canada, and a PhD degree in health technology assessment at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Bassem is an experienced health economist, skillful medical writer, public health consultant at the WHO office in Cairo, Egypt, the CEO and Founder of MD Pharma Consulting Group Inc., and the Chief Research and Medical Officer at BeMe AI, Toronto, Canada. His areas of research are internal medicine, medical oncology, epidemiology, pharmacovigilance, health technology assessment, decision analysis, and benefit-risk assessment.