Laura Sampietro Colom MD, MScPH, PhD

Dr Laura Sampietro-Colom is the Deputy Director of Innovation and Head of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Unit at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, a high-tech hospital and a reference for health care, research and medical training in Spain. She is also a mentor in CaixaImpulse (a capital risk&foundation program from a bank) aimed to coach reserchers to bring their product to market. She is also co-founder of the start up Mangrana Ventures S.L.

Prior to this, Dr Sampietro-Colom was the General Director of Information Systems, Projects and Evaluation of the Catalan Health Institute, the leading provider of public health services in the Region of Catalonia (8 Hospitals and 238 Primary Care Centres) and the Director of the Strategic Planning Unit of Health Services within the Planning and Evaluation Directorate of the Ministry of Health of Catalonia.

Laura has over 25 years of experience in evaluative research, specifically in HTA and was one of the founders of the Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment. She was the Founding member of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), serving on its Board of Directors since its foundation, including three years as Secretary of the Executive Committee, two years as Vice-President and two years as President. Responsible for the development of one of the research lines of the first international project conducted by the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA). She Chairs the HTAi Latam Policy Forum and is past-Chair of the Global Policy Forum. Laura is a trained Medical Doctor specializing in Preventive Medicine and Public Health (University of Barcelona) and holds a PhD in Medicine and Surgery by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a Master of Science in Public Health by the Rolling School of Public Health (Emory University, Atlanta, USA). She also holds an Executive Master in Management of Science and Innovation by the University Pompeu Fabra