Dr Faiz Kermani has 15 years' experience in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked in pharmaceutical R&D, pricing and reimbursement, marketing and medical education. Dr Kermani holds a PhD in Immunopharmacology from St. Thomas' Hospital, London, and a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacology with Toxicology from King's College, London. He has written extensively on international healthcare issues, and is on the editorial board of a number of publications, including Contract Services Europe (Advanstar Communications, UK), Contract Pharma (Rodman Publishing, USA) and Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Quarterly (MSL Institute LLC, USA). In March 2006, he was a delegate on the UK Government's Trade and Investment Biotech Scoping Mission to China and contributed to the subsequent report.
Dr Kermani is co-editor of the multiauthor book Patient Compliance: Sweetening the Pill (Gower Publishing, 2006), much of which forms the baseline for this expert review.