William Canestaro

Advisor

2024

Managing Director

2018 - 2024

Manager, Strategic Investments

2016 - 2018

Consultant

2016 - 2016

Marshall Memorial Fellow

2022

Better Arguments Ambassador

2022

Member, Corporate Advisory Board

2018

Affiliate Faculty

2018

Advisor to WRF Health Economic and Outcomes Research Fellowship

2018

The WRF-HEOR Fellowship aims to connect qualified researchers to meaningful health economic challenges facing Washington State life science companies. Health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) is increasingly being used at earlier stages of product development for healthcare and life sciences to inform decision making. While this expertise is commonly available at larger companies it may be unaffordable to smaller companies that have arguably the greatest need for that kind of service. The WRF-HEOR Fellowship would aim to address this gap by providing high-quality health economic and outcomes research services to WRF mission-related companies coming from qualified institutions in Washington state while also providing a valuable training activity for graduate students at Washington state research institutions.

Teaching Faculty for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

2020 - 2023

Designed and taught PHARM 540: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in the UW School of Pharmacy.

Teaching Faculty-Health Innovation

2018

This course is designed to give students an overview of the challenges that are necessary for any young business in healthcare or life sciences to consider. By the end of the course, students should expect to have an awareness of the system of regulation of health technologies, the process of development for health technologies, and the economics of healthcare. https://foster.uw.edu/centers/buerk-ctr-entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship-competitions/uw-health-innovation-challenge/

Member Board of Directors

2023 - 2024

Member Board of Directors

2023 - 2024

Consultant

2017 - 2018

Health Economic Consultant and Modeler

2013 - 2017

Health economics and outcomes research consultant for clients including: MedImmune/AstraZeneca, Genentech, and the National Pharmaceutical Council. Involved in generation of numerous drug's economic evidence for AMCP dossier.

Research Assistant

2014 - 2015

Research assistant for the NIH funded Personalized Medicine Economics Research (PriMER) project. My responsibilities involved organization, execution and analysis of focus groups and interviews with patients, providers and payers on the value of companion diagnostics and personalized medicines to healthcare consumers.