Our Team

Steve joined AXIS in 2023 as a Business Insights Advisor with a key focus on guiding and supporting the team’s organic growth and development. Steve brings over 25 years of experience in managing the development and growth of HEOR and Market Access consulting services and delivery. The common thread running throughout his career has been providing strong leadership and driving professional development for technical and commercial consulting teams, with a key focus on establishing and maintaining close and effective collaborative partnerships with industry clients.

Steve is a firm believer that meaningful and effective collaboration in the consulting space comes only from a consistently applied philosophy of empowerment.

Joy McAleer is the Process Improvement Manager at AXIS Consulting. Joy brings in excess of 30 years’ experience in management consulting, with a specific focus on the dynamic of organisational improvement through adoption of strong programme and project management.

Working originally in IT, Joy was responsible for the implementation of IT systems of scale, supporting end users in changing operating practices. After moving into consultancy Joy deepened her experience in programme and project management, strategy development and performance management, engaging with teams both in process and skills development through facilitation and training.

As Process Improvement Manager, Joy is responsible for supporting continuous improvement in how AXIS delivers on client’s requirements through end-to-end lifecycle with project management, client engagement and core consulting skills.

Joy holds a BSc, MSc, PGCE, along with Professional Qualifications in Risk, Programme, Project Management from the Association for Project Management (APM) which is the chartered body for the project profession. Joy is member of the British Psychological Society.

Caroline holds an Honours B.A. in Geography and Sociology and Politics, Higher Diplomas in Arts Management and Practice and Adult Education along with qualifications in Coaching and Mentoring, Digital Marketing, Employment Law, Team Leadership, Project Management and Health and Safety.

Laura Roucivell is one of our in-house medical writers. Laura combines her unique knowledge of epidemiology and health systems with her extensive experience in scientific writing to generate high-quality output for our clients. Laura contributes to a wide range of projects across the reimbursement pathway including systematic literature reviews, development of rapid review dossiers, contribution to the clinical sections within Health Technology Assessments, generation and collation of clinician insights and development of research study reports.

Laura has a breadth of experience across academia, health systems, and the private sector.  She is particularly passionate about the role that HTAs play in bridging research and evidence-based decision making and is committed to ensuring value-based arguments are communicated in a concise, rigorous and scientific way in order to strengthen opportunities for success at every stage of the reimbursement process.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Public Health (Hons) from Monash University and an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She has completed several short courses in health economics, clinical trials research and monitoring and evaluation.

Dr Nils Gutacker is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York, and a freelance health economist with AXIS Consulting. He has over 10 years of experience working as an applied health economists and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics in this field. Nils is an expert in the statistical analysis of large electronic health record databases (‘big data’), quality of life measurement, and economic modelling.

Nils holds a BSc in Medical Management from University of Duisburg-Essen, as well as an MSc in Health Economics and a PhD in Economics, both from the University of York. He is a member of the EuroQol Group Association.

Mohamed joined AXIS in 2023 as our Health Economics & Access Junior Manager. Mohamed has dual degrees, with an MSc (Hons) in Pharmacy from Kingston University in London, and an MSc in Health Economics and Decision Modelling from the University of Sheffield.

Mohamed combines his unique skills and knowledge of Pharmacy, and his technical abilities in Health Economics and Decision Modelling with his experience in Market Access to support clients with modelling requirements such as cost-effectiveness models and budget-impact analyses, undertaking strategic HTA decisions, developing submissions, and supporting in market access, assessing barriers to uptake, and implementing strategies to achieve successful reimbursements.

Before joining AXIS, Mohamed practised as a clinical pharmacist for 5-years. During which, he simultaneously worked in health economics and market access for 2.5 years, and has a vast amount of experience, comprising the development of high-quality submission dossiers to stakeholders in the U.K, Europe, and US Markets, covering a multitude of therapeutic areas, and includes orphan and ultra-orphan disease technologies. Mohamed has also had research published in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences such as ISPOR.

Katherine joined AXIS in 2023 as an experienced medical writer. PhD level trained, Katherine utilises her previous academic and scientific skillset in cancer research to translate complex clinical data into a clear and robust value story for our clients. Widely published, she has an in-depth understanding of adapting her medical writing skills across all sectors including academia, reimbursement agencies and industry.

Katherine is fundamentally driven by a passion for developing strategies which integrate innovative personalised therapies into health systems with the ultimate goal of improving patients’ lives. This passion led her to move from academia to consulting where, before joining AXIS, she worked for the UK base of an international market access company. Her work here was across a spectrum of projects and deliverables including value proposition development, HTA submission critique and review, and delivery of systematic literature reviews.

She has a PhD in Cancer Research from the University of Ulster, a Masters from the University of Ulster specialising in Biomedical Science, and a BSc in Biomedical Science. Katherine is also currently undertaking an MBA at The Open University.

David is an Associate, Health Economics & Access at AXIS Consulting, having joined the company in 2021. David provides tailored technical support to our team on a range of projects including rapid reviews, health technology assessments, micro-costing studies and other reimbursement specific research projects. He is driven by the goal of providing patients with access to new and innovative treatment options, which in turn can have a significant impact on the health outcomes experienced by patients across a variety of healthcare settings.

David combines his unique expertise in the pharmacy setting in Ireland with his theoretical knowledge of health economics to ensure that each and every output is delivered to the highest technical standard and captures the nuances of the Irish market. He has over 8 years of experience working in community pharmacy, gaining key insights into the medicines access and pharmaceutical distributions processes in Ireland.  David also has a keen interest in academic research, having in more recent years conducted research on the role of economic evaluations in the reimbursement of cancer medications in Ireland.

David holds both a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Geography, Sociology, and Political Science, and a Higher Diploma (H.Dip) in Economic Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has also recently completed an MSc. in Health Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Emer Gribbon is a Junior Data Analyst at AXIS. As part of the AXIS technical team, Emer provides data analysis support on economic models for health technology assessments and rapid reviews, as well as analytical expertise on supportive evidence studies. She is motivated by the opportunity to improve patients’ lives through the innovative treatments they receive.

With previous experience in data driven diagnostics, Emer has developed a proficiency across a range of data analysis techniques including descriptive analysis, predictive modelling, regression analysis and machine learning. She utilises this skillset to optimise reimbursement submissions and ensure rigorous economic and analytical output is generated.

Emer holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics with French from Queen’s University Belfast and has recently graduated with a MSc in Data Analytics also from Queen’s University.

Danya Morton-Holmes is a Strategic Market Access and HTA Consultant at AXIS Consulting. A market access specialist with more than 30 years’ experience in the international pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices and healthcare industries, Danya provides support in project oversight and quality assurance for many of the key deliverables developed for our clients. Danya has a deep understanding of the unique Irish specific processes and the key elements required to ensure successful outcomes to reimbursement submissions.

Her experience of reimbursement applications in other European jurisdictions, as well as in the UK, is brought to bear on her work at AXIS.

Danya holds a BPharm (Hons), a PhD in drug delivery and an MBA (Distinction) from The University of Nottingham. She is also a qualified pharmacist and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Claire Nolan is the Finance Manager at AXIS Healthcare Consulting Ltd.  Claire has worked in Finance for the past 25 years.  Prior to joining AXIS, Claire worked in a variety of different sectors along with running her own business. The knowledge and experience she brings to AXIS help ensure efficient and effective management of the Financial Department.

As head of the Finance team, Claire is responsible for supporting proposal development, cashflow management, payroll and financial Reporting.  She enjoys analysing data to guide future decisions to ensure the efficient running of AXIS.

Claire holds a Diploma in Tax along with Professional Qualifications in Accountancy.