Team

Chair

Ernesto IADANZA, IT

Ernesto IADANZA, IT

Chairman of the HTA Division

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.

 

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Members

Marjan HUMMEL, The Netherlands

Marjan HUMMEL, The Netherlands

Secretary

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…

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Dan CLARK, UK

Dan CLARK, UK

Treasurer

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…

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Mario MEDVEDEC, Croatia

Mario MEDVEDEC, Croatia

Member

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…

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Kalliroi STAVRIANOU, Greece

Kalliroi STAVRIANOU, Greece

Member

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…

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Murilo Contó, BR

Murilo Contó, BR

Member

Specialist in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Health Technology Management (HTM) with more
than 20 years working with medical devices, including activities in the industry, hospitals, federal government
and international organization.

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Albert Poon, Hong Kong

Albert Poon, Hong Kong

Member

Co-opted members

Julie POLISENA, Canada

Julie POLISENA, Canada

Coopted Member

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.

HTAD Collaborators

Leandro PECCHIA, UK

Leandro PECCHIA, UK

HTAD Collaborators

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…

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Patricia TRBOVICH, Canada

Patricia TRBOVICH, Canada

HTAD Collaborators

Patricia is the Badeau Family Research Chair in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement at North York General Hospital, is Associate Professor of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in the Institute of Health Policy…

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Nicolas PALLIKARAKIS, Greece

Nicolas PALLIKARAKIS, Greece

HTAD Collaborators

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…

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Mladen POLUTA, South Africa

Mladen POLUTA, South Africa

HTAD Collaborators

After graduating in electrical engineering and working first in the medical device industry and then in an academic hospital setting, I joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town…

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Giuseppe FICO, Spain

Giuseppe FICO, Spain

HTAD Collaborators

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…

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Rossana Castaldo, UK

Rossana Castaldo, UK

HTAD Collaborators

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.

Adriana Velazquez, CH.

Adriana Velazquez, CH.

HTAD Collaborators

With 30 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.

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Martina Andellini , IT

Martina Andellini , IT

HTAD Collaborators

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. […]

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Rosanna TARRICONE, Italy

Rosanna TARRICONE, Italy

HTAD Collaborators

Rosanna Tarricone is Associate Professor of the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University. Since January 2017, she is Associate Dean for Government, Health and Not for Profit Division….

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Simone BORSCI, The Netherlands

Simone BORSCI, The Netherlands

HTAD Collaborators

Assistant Professor in Cognitive Ergonomics and Human Factors (University of Twente, NL) & Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Imperial College of London, UK) […]

Matteo Ritrovato, Italy

Matteo Ritrovato, Italy

HTAD Collaborators

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Dinsie Williams, Canada

Dinsie Williams, Canada

HTAD Collaborator Member

Trained Biomedical Design Engineer with an interest in the optimal utilization of advanced medical equipment in resource-deprived settings. 

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Ivette Patrón, Mexico

Ivette Patrón, Mexico

HTAD Collaborator Member

Biomedical engineering from the Autonomus University of San Luis Potosí, México. She has collaborated with de Mexican Society of Biomedical Engineering since 2014, carrying out various organization activities. She is currently a Chief of the Diagnostic Department in Health Technology Assessment at CENETEC.

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Oriana CIANI, IT

Oriana CIANI, IT

HTAD Collaborator Member

Oriana Ciani is Associate Professor of Practice, Public Management and Policy Group, Health Economics & HTA at SDA Bocconi School of Management.
Her research interests are centred around the use and impact of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on decision-making in healthcare, on the methodological aspects of the evaluation of health technologies, particularly medical devices, and on the use of evidence synthesis techniques to inform policy decisions and health policies evaluation.  […]

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Rossella Di Bidino, Italy

Rossella Di Bidino, Italy

HTAD Collaborator Member

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).

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Carmelo De Maria, Italy

Carmelo De Maria, Italy

HTAD Collaborator Member

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​

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Carlo Federici, Italy

Carlo Federici, Italy

HTAD Collaborator Member

Carlo Federici is a lab researcher of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) at the Center for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS) of SDA Bocconi School of Management. At SDA Bocconi Carlo teaches the Advanced Decision Modelling course at the  Master of International Healthcare Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP) as well as several courses on HTA and economic evaluations of healthcare technologies. […]

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Mohammad AMEEL, India

Mohammad AMEEL, India

HTAD Collaborator Member

Akriti CHAHAR, India

Akriti CHAHAR, India

HTAD Collaborator Member

Arti AHLUWALIA, Italy

Arti AHLUWALIA, Italy

HTAD Collaborator Member

Davide PIAGGIO, UK

Davide PIAGGIO, UK

HTAD Collaborator Member

Rossana RIVAS TARAZONA, PE

Rossana RIVAS TARAZONA, PE

HTAD Collaborator Member

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. […]

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Andrea FACCHINETTI, IT

Andrea FACCHINETTI, IT

HTAD Collaborator Member

Andrea Facchinetti is Associate Professor of “Clinical engineering and health technology assessment” at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova (DEI-UNIPD), within the Bioengineering group. He received the Master degree in Computer Engineering in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering in 2009, both from DEI-UNIPD. His current scientific interests include the processing of biomedical signals from wearable sensors, the development of Ai based models and mobile apps for decision support systems in medicine, and modeling methodologies applied to the assessment of medical devices and procedures. […]

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Past Board Members 2015 – 2018

Chair
Leandro PECCHIA, United Kingdom
Members
Marjan HUMMEL, Secretary, The Netherlands
Patricia TRBOVICH, Treasurer, Canada
Nicolas PALLIKARAKIS, Greece
Kallirroi Stavrianou, Greece
Mladen POLUTA, South Africa
Mario MEDVEDEC, Croatia
Co-opted Member
Rosanna TARRICONE, Italy

Past Board Members 2012 – 2015

Chair
Nicolas PALLIKARAKIS, Greece
Members
Patricia TRBOVICH, Secretary, Canada
Leandro PECCHIA, Treasurer, UK
Mladen POLUTA, South Africa
Ken ISHIHARA, Japan (2012 – 2015)
Roberto Macoto ICHINOSE, Brazil (2012 – 2015)
Christopher JAMES, UK (2012 – 2015)

Past Board Members 2006 – 2009

Chair
Hermann GILLY
Members
Ewald KONECNY
Sung-Jae LEE
Zlatko MATJACIC
Kalju Meigas, Estonia
Nicolas PALLIKARAKIS
Cheng-Yi WANG
Co-opted by the IFMBE AC
Clifford GOODMAN (in 1994)
John HUTTON (in 1994)
Jan PERSSON
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