Ana Etges

Ana is passionate about inspiring people for scientific education and works for a more effective and sustainable health care system. In addition to her position with Avant-garde Health, she serves as a Professor in the Graduate Program of Epidemiology at UFRGS and in the School of Technology at the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul(PUCRS), Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Health Technology Assessment (IATS), and a Partner from consulting firms (PEV and Way2Value, in Brazil and Portugal, respectively). In all her affiliations, she dedicates her career to turning health care costs more transparent and implementing value-based healthcare principles in health care organizations and systems. Motivated by that, Ana founded the TDABC in Healthcare Consortium and has performed dozens of TDABC and health care management research and consulting projects in Brazil, Portugal, and the US. She is continually researching and working to engage more people on the cause to improve the efficiency of health care systems worldwide.

Ana has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from UFRGS, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Epidemiology at UFRGS in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also attended to the VBHC Seminary at Harvard Business School, and now is attending the Effective Writing Certification Program at Harvard Medical School.