Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
HONORARY CHAIR: Marina Geli, Minister, Catalan Ministry of Health (MoH)
CHAIR: Marta Segura, General Secretary, Catalan MoH
Laura Sampietro-Colom, Chair LOC Executive
Alicia Granados, Chair ISPC
Marta Aymerich, Director, Catalan Agency for HTA and Research CAHTA
Antoni Plasència, Director, Public Health Directorate, Catalan MoH
M Luisa de la Puente, Director, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Catalan MoH
Ramon Maspons, Director, Research Plan, Catalan MoH
Manel Balcells, Advisor
Enric Agustí, Assistant Director CatSalut


Local Executive Organizing Committee (LOC ex)
EXECUTIVE CHAIR: Laura Sampietro-Colom, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Catalan MoH
TECHNICAL SECRETARY: Anna Lucas
José Mª Amate, Spanish HTA Agency, AETS IS Carlos III
Juan Antonio Blasco, Madrid HTA Agency, UETS Agencia Laín Entralgo
Carme Borrell, Barcelona Public Health Agency, ASPB
Anna Busqué, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Catalan MoH
Arantxa Catalán, Drug Unit, Catalan Health Institute, ICS
Josep Lluís de Peray, Catalan Public Health Agency Coordination Unit
Pedro Gallo, Economic and Social Sciences School, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, UIC
Antoni Gilabert, Pharmaceutical Care Directorate, Catalan MoH
Chon González-Mestre, Barcelona Communication and User Attention Unit, Primary Healthcare, Catalan Health Institute, ICS
Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Basque Office for HTA, OSTEBA
Ma Teresa Icart, School of Nursing, Universitat de Barcelona, UB
Carme Lacasa, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Catalan MoH
Julio López, Canary Islands Planning and Evaluation Unit, SCS
Antoni Parada, Catalan Agency for HTA and Research, CAHTA
Gemma Revuelta, Scientific and Medical Communication Observatory at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF
Alberto Ruano, Galician HTA Agency, AVALIA-T
Emilia Sánchez, Catalan Agency for HTA and Research, CAHTA
Mateu Serra, Research Unit, Consorci Sanitari Maresme, CsdM
Román Villegas, Andalusian Agency for HTA, AETSA


International Scientific Programme Committee (ISPC)
CHAIR: Alicia Granados, Universitat de Barcelona,UB Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica,IMIM, Spain
CO-CHAIR: Andrew Dillon, National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, UK
Ron Akehurst, School of Health and related Research University Sheffield, UK
Hisashige Akinori, Institute of Healthcare Technology Assessment, Japan
Ilona Autti-Rämö, FinOHTA/STAKES, Finland
Jean-François Baladi, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, USA
Renaldo Battista, University of Montreal Faculty of Medicine Department of Health Administration, Canada
Susan Bidwell, Christchurch School of Medicine NZ HTA, New Zealand
Leslie Boydell, Institute of Public Health, Ireland
Americo Cicchetti, Istituto di Igiene, Italy
Emma Chen Sasse, Evidence Based Medicine Oncoevidencias, Brazil
Leena Eklund, Health Evidence Network (HEN) Regional office Europe WHO, Denmark
Joan Gené, Universitat de Barcelona,UB, Spain
Cesar Gomes Victora, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Sian Griffiths, School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Clifford Goodman, The Lewin Group Health Care Policy Department, USA
Ildefonso Hernández, Spanish Society of Epidemiology, Spain
Andrei Issakov, Department of Health Policy, Development and Services, WHO, Switzerland
Jan Semenza, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, Sweden
Brendon Kearney, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Australia
Mike Kelly, Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, NICE, UK
Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICE, UK
Marco Marchetti, Universtità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Devidas Menon, Department of Public Health Sciences University of Alberta Hospital, Canada
Sang Moo Lee, HTA team, Korea
Wija Oortwijn, RAND Europe, The Netherlands
Zulma Ortiz, Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vicente Ortún, Research Center on Health and Economics (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Andy Oxman, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Matthias Perleth, Regional Association of Regional Health Insurance Funds, Germany
Nina Rehnqvist, SBU, Sweden
Walter Ricciardi, European Public Health Association, EUPHA, Italy
Lisa Rochaix, Collège de la Haute Autorité de Santé, France
Adolfo Rubinstein, Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rodrigo Salinas, Ministry of Health, Chile
Jonathan Samet, EPI Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andreu Segura, Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria, SESPAS, Spain
Emilia Sánchez, Public Health Society of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, Spain
Jane Sisk, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, USA
Sadasivan Sivalal, Health Technology Assessment Unit, Malaysia
Adriana Velásquez, Centro Nacional de Excelencia Tecnológica en Salud, CENETEC, Mexico
Pen-Jen Wang, Bureau of National Health Insurance Taipei, Taiwan
Shuhada Watson, Needs and Interventions Division, Regional Office Europe WHO, Denmark
Magdalena Wladysiuk-Blicharz, HTA Consulting, Poland
Maya Züllig, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health Medical Technology Unit, Switzerland

Advisory Committee (AC)
CHAIR: Marta Segura, General Secretary, Catalan MoH
CO-CHAIR: Marta Aymerich, Director, Catalan Agency for HTA and Research, CAHTA
Enric Agustí, Catalan Health System, CatSalut
Elena Andradas, Madrid HTA Agency, UETS Agencia Laín Entralgo
Josep Mª Antó, Epidemiological and Public Health centres network, RECESP
José Asua, Basque Office for HTA, OSTEBA
Josep A. Bombí Latorre, Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, ACMCB
Xavier Bonfill, Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre
Teresa Cerdá, Galician HTA Agency, AVALIA-T
Mariona Creus i Virgili, Nursing Professional Association of Barcelona
Ma Luisa de la Puente, Planning and Evaluation Directorate, Catalan MoH
Purificación Gálvez, Andalusian Agency for HTA, AETSA
Mateu Huguet, Hospital Division, Catalan Health Institute, ICS
Alberto Infante, Quality Directorate, Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Security
Rafael Manzanera, Health Resources Directorate, Catalan MoH
Pilar Mas, Council of Pharmaceutical Professional Associations of Catalonia
Ramon Agustí, Interdepartmental Commission for Research and Technological Innovation, CIRIT
Francesc Monné i Orge, Veterinary Professional Association of Barcelona
Antoni Plasència, Public Health Directorate, Catalan MoH
Jaume Raventós, Consorci Hospitalari Catalunya, CHC
Miquel Bruguera Cortada, Council of Medical Professional Associations of Catalonia
Boi Ruiz, Unió Catalana Hospitals, UCH
Antonio Sarria, Spanish HTA Agency, AETS IS Carlos III
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