Brian Ivanovic

Manager & Senior Researcher Applied R&D
Swiss Re

Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Ivanovic leads Swiss Re's North American Applied Research & Development area and additionally provides support to Swiss Re's Global R&D team.  He is a board certified family physician and epidemiologist, with 17 years of reinsurance industry experience. He conducts research that assists Swiss Re in the establishment of pricing assumptions and in understanding factors that can affect future population health and insured lives claim risk.  A major focus of Dr. Ivanovic's time over the past several years has been in the area of mortality trend research. In addition to regular industry presentations his research has been published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine, North American Actuarial Journal and a number of Swiss Re’s client publications.

Prior to his insurance industry experiences Dr. Ivanovic completed a Fellowship in Academic Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and spent six years teaching medical students in Des Moines and Milwaukee. He began his medical career as a Flight Surgeon in the US Air Force.