Marco Marchetti

Marco Marchetti has graduated in medicine at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome) and postgraduated in Hygiene and Public Health and Legal Medicine. He is currently the Director of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Unit of the Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli" at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is also the European Director of the International Master Program in HTA and Management since 2001. He is the Director of Scientific-Technical Office of Institutional review board (IRB) - Ethical review board of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He has been both expert and referee for Health Technology research proposals in the years 2003 and 2008 by The NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme - National Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment. He was in charge of the organization of the HTA international 2nd annual meeting "Bringing HTA into practice", 20-22 June 2005. He is chair of the Special Interest Subgroups of HTA international (HTAi) "hospital based HTA". His expertise areas are hospital management, quality assurance, risk management, HTA, drug epidemiology, evidence based medicine and has published more than 150 papers on national and international journals.