Specialist in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Health Technology Management (HTM) with more than 25 years working with medical devices, including activities in the industry, hospitals, federal government and international organization.

Rossana Rivas Tarazona is MSc Management of Social & Health Organizations at Jean Moulin-Lyon III University, in Lyon, France; PhD Candidate, Mines ParisTech, Ecole des Mines de Paris, in Paris, France; International Consultant in Biomedical Eng., Clinical Eng., Health Technology Planning & Management and Health Technology Assessment. During the last 15 years she’s been interacting with Ministries of Health and other organizations from LATAM and the Caribbean region as others: USAID, the Rockefeller Foundation, Embassy of France, Embassy of Canada, UNESCO, etc. […]

Ernesto Iadanza, BME, CE, M. Sc., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor in Clinical Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence. National qualification as Associate Professor in Bioengineering.

Engineer committed to advancing healthcare through the development of medical devices and equipment to benefit patients and communities. Provides professional expertise and technical advisory support to international organizations such as WHO, IFMBE, and LSHTM. Focused on strengthening medical device and IVD regulations in Asia and Africa, and supporting manufacturers in product registration to ensure affordable access to safe and effective devices in Hong Kong.

Dan leads the Clinical Engineering service in Nottingham, one of the largest in Europe and provides the full scope of equipment services including: device evaluation, commissioning, service and maintenance…

With 40 years of experience in Biomedical Engineering, Adriana Velazquez is the senior adviser and focal point on medical devices at the World Health Organization (WHO), where she has been working since 2008, and leading the work to improve access to safe, affordable, quality and appropriate medical devices.

Assistant professor in Bioengineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, and affiliated with the Research Center “E. Piaggio ”of the same University. He is a member of the secretariat of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium, and founder of the FabLab Pisa. He carries out research in the additive manufacturing field for applications in Biomedical Engineering (over 60 publications), and is among the promoters of open source design of medical devices through the UBORA platform​

Giuseppe Fico is heading the Health strategic area of the Life Supporting Technology research group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He holds a PhD in biomedical…

Julie Polisena is a Senior Epidemiologist in the Marketed Health Products Directorate at Health Canada. She has a Master of Science in Health Services Research from the University of Toronto and earned her doctorate in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. In addition to her doctoral fellowship in health technology assessment (HTA) at the Society for Medical Decision Making, she gained extensive experience in HTA at the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Italy and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health.

Stavrianou Kallirroi is a post-doc researcher at the Biomedical Technology Unit (BITU), Laboratory of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece. She received her Diploma in…

Leandro Pecchia received the degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2005 and the PhD in Economy and Management of Healthcare Services and Organizations in 2009 from the University “Federico II” of Naples…

Mario Medvedec earned his bachelor’s (BSc) and master’s (MSc) degree from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, and a doctoral (PhD) degree from the University of Zagreb…

Marjan Hummel is a senior scientist in competitive intelligence & early health technology assessment at Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. With a Master’s degree in Technical Business Engineering and a Doctoral degree in…

Martina Andellini completed her Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2014. From May 2014 to September 2015 She worked as a researcher in neuroimaging focusing on the application of functional MRI for the study of various human brain disorders at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. From September 2015 she joined the Unit of Health Technology Assessment at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital where she is still working on hospital-based health technology assessment (HTA) of medical devices. […]

Nicolas Pallikarakis is Professor of Medical Physics and Head of the Biomedical Technology Unit (BITU). He also holds various key posts such as Director of the Postgraduate Program on Biomedical Technology at…

Rossana Castaldo is Research Associate at the School of Engineering, University of Warwick. She holds a PhD and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from University of Warwick. She is working on the developments of new guidelines for Medical Devices (MD) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Rossella Di Bidino is a senior HTA Expert at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS in Rome (Italy). She participates in the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) and the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment activities (INAHTA). For more than 5 years, she was member of the Secretariat of P&R-HTA office of Italian Medicines Agency. She has a Master’s in International Healthcare Management (MIHMEP) from Bocconi University and a doctorate in Management of Healthcare Organisation by Catholic University of Rome. She was visiting scholar at CADTH. She is member of HTAi and the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).