Assoc. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Aleš Tichopád, Ph.D. MHA
Aleš serves as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), where he leads a multidisciplinary healthcare data research group of more than twenty experts. The group focuses on evaluating innovative technologies and processes and their impact on healthcare systems, industry, and professional education, with a strong emphasis on translating academic knowledge into practical solutions with measurable impact. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Czech Minister of Health and a regular member of key ministerial expert committees and working groups, contributing to the evaluation and implementation of healthcare innovations at the national level and collaborating with major healthcare institutions, including the Czech Health Insurance Bureau and the Scientific Board of AGEL Group, one of the largest healthcare providers in Central Europe. His career combines strong academic, international, and commercial experience; he spent more than a decade working in Germany at the Technical University of Munich and within international commercial research organizations, including leadership roles at the regional level in multinational companies. He has been actively involved in technology transfer and applied research, including founding a data analytics startup that was successfully commercialized and later acquired by a multinational corporation, and he has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed international publications with over 12,000 citations.
Mgr. Ivana Šarkanová, PhD.
Mgr. Ivana Šarkanová, PhD., is a scientific researcher at the Department of Biomedical Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), and Director of CEEOR. She is a long-standing member of the CzechHTA research team. She holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, combining a strong life-science foundation with applied research in health technology assessment (HTA), health economics, and outcomes research. Her work focuses on cost-effectiveness modelling, quality-of-life assessment, patient-reported outcomes, and real-world evidence studies, with a particular emphasis on rare diseases. She teaches HTA and health economic evaluation at ČVUT. She has extensive leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating complex health outcomes research projects across the Central and Eastern European region. She is the author of several publications in prestigious scientific journals and international conference proceedings.
Ing. Gleb Donin, Ph.D.
Ing. Gleb Donin, Ph.D., is a long-term researcher within the CzechHTA team at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), where his professional focus includes analytical modeling in health technology assessment (HTA) and health economics, the development of patient-centered care concepts, and comparative analyses of healthcare technologies, including pharmaceuticals. His work relies on secondary healthcare claims data and involves advanced operationalization of observational datasets and the development of robust analytical methods ensuring unbiased comparisons between technologies and healthcare interventions. He has been actively involved in projects supporting ministerial and national healthcare programs in the Czech Republic and abroad and collaborates closely with the Czech Ministry of Health and the Czech Health Insurance Bureau, particularly in the analysis of national healthcare datasets and the evaluation of healthcare interventions at the system level. His professional activities also include the assessment of patient–provider interactions, the development of data science methods for large-scale healthcare data processing, teaching in the fields of HTA and clinical and economic evaluation of healthcare technologies, and mentoring undergraduate and doctoral students.
Ing. Ondřej Klempíř, Ph.D.
Ing. Ondřej Klempíř, Ph.D., works at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), in the field of biomedical informatics and data science, focusing on the processing, representation, and analysis of complex biomedical data. His professional activities primarily address the transformation of multidimensional datasets—such as electronic health records, physiological signals, and speech—into vector representations using machine learning and embedding techniques. He is currently strongly engaged in the application of large language models and artificial intelligence methods for structuring and analyzing medical data and supporting both clinical and system-level decision-making. He defended his doctoral thesis in Biomedical and Clinical Engineering in 2020 and has participated in research projects focused on the application of machine learning methods in medicine, including the analysis of signal and speech data in neurological disorders. In addition to his research activities, he actively contributes to teaching in biomedical informatics and data science, delivering courses focused on large-scale data processing, computational modeling, and the implementation of modern analytical methods in healthcare data environments.
Assoc. Prof. Mgr. Vladimír Rogalewicz, CSc.
Assoc. Prof. Vladimír Rogalewicz is a mathematician and statistician, a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, with long-standing expertise in health economics, health technology assessment (HTA), and health systems research. His professional work focuses primarily on cost-effectiveness modeling of healthcare interventions, the evaluation of health policy impacts, and the development of quantitative methodologies applied in public health and healthcare decision-making. His earlier career also included research in the mathematical foundations of quantum theory, genetic resources of cultivated plants, and chemical and biomedical engineering, providing him with a strong interdisciplinary background for solving complex analytical problems. Between 2007 and 2012, he served as Vice-Dean for Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, where he contributed to the development of international collaboration and scientific capacity, and he has served on numerous editorial and scientific boards. He is the author of more than 140 publications in prestigious scientific journals and international conference proceedings and has made significant contributions to the methodological development of HTA and health economic evaluation.
Mag. Juliana Grand Müllerová
Juliana Grand Müllerová is a specialist in research and project management focused on healthcare data analytics, health technology assessment (HTA), and economic evaluation of healthcare delivery. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), where her research focuses on the analysis of patient pathways through complex healthcare delivery processes using real-world and administrative data sources. Her work integrates economic perspectives with advanced data analytics to identify efficiency patterns in healthcare interventions and support optimization of healthcare organization and service delivery. She holds an academic background in economics from the University of Vienna and, since 2012, has worked in commercial consulting environments, leading and coordinating research projects in HTA, data analytics, and interpretation of analytical outcomes for decision-making and knowledge transfer into practice. Within the research team, she plays an important role in coordinating project activities, managing workflows, and developing methodologies for analyses based on secondary healthcare data, while contributing to scientific outputs in health economics and healthcare systems research.
RNDr. Marian Rybář
Marian studied the field of probability and statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University and the field of teaching mathematics and biology at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University. He deals with the processing of biostatistical data and medical statistics training. As an advisor to the Minister of Health in the field of statistics, in the years 2019-2021 he had the task of starting national projects for measuring the quality of health care in the Czech Republic and a project for the national assessment of patient satisfaction in the Czech Republic, which he is still working on today within the framework of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. He is a member of the working group for measuring and comparing the quality of health services at the Ministry of Health, and cooperates with the Health Insurance Office on the creation of health care quality indicators in the Czech Republic. At FBMI, Marian participates in the teaching of statistics and collaborates on projects in the field of improving the healthcare system of the Czech Republic based on healthcare data.
Mgr. Martina Dingová Šliková, Ph.D.
Mgr. Martina Dingová Šliková, Ph.D. works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FBMI CTU) and as a researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University. Her work focuses on biomedical ethics with a specialization in ethical and systemic decision-making in healthcare, resource allocation and handling of patient data and health information in clinical and research practice. With a qualification in ethics consulting, she is dedicated to ethical assessment, consulting activities and decision-making processes in the field of healthcare provision, including continuity and coordination of care. She has been involved in teaching for a long time and guarantees practical training of non-medical healthcare workers, building on her extensive clinical experience. Since 2011, she has been the chairwoman of the Ethics Committee of the FBMI CTU for Research and since 2024 as the faculty ombudsman with a focus on institutional ethics. She participates in the CZDEMOS4AI project focused on ethical aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in society. She is the author and co-author of professional publications and monographs.
Ing. Ondřej Gajdoš, Ph.D.
Ondřej deals with medical device legislation, health economics and HTA in the CzechHTA team. After completing his engineering studies at the FBMI CTU in 2014, he continued his doctoral studies and since 2016 he has also been working as a researcher with pedagogical activities. He participates in publishing activities and in the teaching of HTA, economic analysis and subjects focused on health care legislation. He leads the final theses of engineering students and is a co-researcher of grants. In 2017, he co-founded MeDeCorp s.r.o. providing services in the field of medical device marketing and related processes.
Ing. Petra Hospodková, Ph.D.
Petra is a researcher, lecturer and guarantor of economic and managerial subjects in healthcare at FBMI CTU. Her professional career began at Deloitte as an assistant auditor. Subsequently, she cooperated with major manufacturers of medical devices in the Czech Republic, especially in the field of cost optimization and streamlining processes. Her areas of professional interest include performing cost analyzes within the HB-HTA, using Lean Management tools in healthcare or evaluating the life cycle of medical devices.
Ing. Vojtěch Kamenský, Ph.D.
Vojta is a researcher focusing on HTA, especially cost-effectiveness modeling. In addition, it deals with the regulation of medical devices and biostatistics. After completing his engineering studies at FBMI, CTU in 2014 entered the doctoral program in Biomedical and Clinical Engineering, which he completed in 2023. Besides teaching Vojta participates in the expert activities of the faculty. Since 2017, he has been the managing director of MeDeCorp s.r.o., which deals with market access for medical devices.
Ing. Anna Erfányuk Kamenská
Anna has been a member of the CzechHTA team since 2018. She is studying for a doctoral degree in Biomedical and Clinical Engineering at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. It focuses primarily on the evaluation of medical devices and research into patient preferences using Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methods. He has knowledge in the field of regulation and risk analysis of medical devices and related legislation and technical standards. As part of his dissertation, he deals with the evaluation of patient preferences with a focus on oncology. He also has knowledge in the field of modeling clinical and cost-effectiveness according to technical, operational and other parameters of instrumentation.
Ing. Jan Žigmond
Ing. Jan Žigmond is a specialist in health economics, data analytics, and health technology assessment (HTA). He graduated from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he is actively involved in teaching and research. After completing his studies, he worked in the private sector as a data analyst and pharmacoeconomist, specializing in cost-effectiveness analyses for the pharmaceutical industry. Since 2021, he has been engaged in academic activities at FBMI CTU, where he shares his practical experience through teaching HTA and statistics, supervises master’s theses, and contributes to the analysis of administrative healthcare data within the CzechHTA research team. In parallel, he collaborates with the Czech Health Insurance Bureau and the Institute of Health Information and Statistics, focusing on the analysis of national healthcare data and its application in evidence-based decision-making at the health system level.
Ing. Martina Holá
Martina is a student of the PhD program in Biomedical Engineering at the FBMI CTU. She became a member of the CzechHTA team in 2022 after completing her Master’s degree in Systems Integration of Processes in Healthcare. Her expertise lies in the analysis of health data using administrative data, with a particular focus on the disease multiple sclerosis. Within the CzechHTA group, Martina leads a working group called Multiplex, which is involved in addressing issues in multiple sclerosis (MS) disease. Within the group, she is involved in, for example, addressing quality indicators and their follow-up based on administrative data in the disease. It is also working on identifying the prodromal phase of MS using administrative data and artificial intelligence (AI). Martha’s dissertation, entitled “Using administrative data for diagnosis and improving treatment of multiple sclerosis”, aims to map the MS patient’s journey from early diagnosis to treatment based on available medical data. Martina is also involved in teaching healthcare legislation and quality management in healthcare at the faculty.
prof. Ing. Peter Kneppo, DrSc., dr.h.c.
Peter has made a significant contribution to the development of medical device HTA in the Czech Republic. In 2009, he was instrumental in establishing the CzechHTA team and shaped its professional direction for many years. Under his leadership, the IGA grant of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic Evaluation of Medical Devices (2010–2014) and subsequently the Information System for tracking purchases of medical devices (2013–2014) were carried out. He also served as an evaluator of the effectiveness and pricing of medical technology for oncology and trauma centre projects under OP IOP for the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, as well as Horizon 2020 projects for the European Commission. In his professional work as a leader of expert teams at a forensic expert institute, he has long been dedicated to the management of medical technologies, the efficiency of their procurement, the assessment of their benefits, and compliance of their operation with legislative standards. Together with his PhD student Ilya Ivlev (ECRI USA, formerly a member of the CzechHTA team), he has published work in the field of multi-criteria decision-making methods, which has received considerable international recognition.
Ing. Karla Mothejlová
Karla is a student of the doctoral program in biomedical engineering at FBMI CTU. She became a member of the CzechHTA team in 2023 while studying the master’s degree program System Integration of Processes in Healthcare. As part of his dissertation topic, he deals with the anonymization of health data and the use of data for secondary purposes. Within the CzechHTA group, Karla leads a working group called Anonymous, which focuses precisely on the issue of anonymizing medical data. The group deals with setting up internal processes in the area of receiving and providing data for research purposes at FBMI. It also issues anonymization procedures and recommendations and sets up functional processes to effectively anonymize data while preserving its informational value. Karla’s dissertation entitled “Framework for practical and legal adoption and use of anonymised administrative data” aims to create functional anonymisation processes and infrastructure. Among the sub-goals of the work, within the framework of cooperation with UZIS, is the design of author’s datasets, the so-called minimal adequacy of datasets. Karla also participates in the teaching of health technology assessment and economic analysis at the faculty.
Ing. Jakub Ráfl, Ph.D.
Jakub is an senior assistant at FBMI. In the CzechHTA team, he is dedicated to the analysis of large patient data, mainly in the areas of adherence to treatment and smoking cessation. He also deals with the acquisition and evaluation of data from instrumentation in intensive care medicine and respiratory support and the role of device wearers in health care. He completed the Master’s program in Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. His doctoral studies, focused on artificial pulmonary ventilation, were completed in 2015 at FBMI CTU. He teaches applied statistics, special instrumentation for intensive care and research methodology.
Mgr. Veronika Szépe
Veronika Szépe specializes in working with healthcare data, real-world evidence (RWE), and the implementation of research projects in the field of healthcare. Since 2022, she has been active in a scientific and commercial environment, contributing to projects focused on generating evidence to support healthcare research and practice. She draws on a background in biochemistry and research, which she integrates with applied analytical approaches in her work. Her focus lies in the processing and interpretation of real-world clinical data, particularly in the context of rare diseases, and their application in medical and applied research. As part of project activities, she is involved in the preparation and execution of analyses, coordination of specific tasks, and development of expert outputs. She has experience working with various types of data sources and translating them into clear, actionable insights for both expert and strategic use.
Ing. Martina Homolková
Martina is a doctoral student in the biomedical engineering program at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (FBMI) at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT). She joined the CzechHTA team in 2022 after completing her master’s degree in System Integration of Healthcare Processes. In her dissertation research, she focuses on linking early-stage HTA with the process of designing, developing, and bringing medical devices to market, with a special emphasis on implantable orthopedic devices. The goal of her work is to create a methodological framework that integrates HTA assessments into the early stages of device development, taking into account clinical efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness. At the faculty, she teaches courses on biostatistics, legislation, and the quality of medical devices.
Ing. Daniel Laubr, MHA
Daniel graduated from the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Czech Technical University with a focus on computer graphics and is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Czech Technical University. He works as a data analyst for the Ministry of Health and has fifteen years of experience in IT and operational management. He has a long-term focus on medical and obstetric data, quality indicators and analytical support for systemic changes in care. In his work, he combines technical expertise, analytical rigor and the ability to translate data into practical decisions.
RNDr. Jana Preclíková, Ph.D.
RNDr. Jana Preclíková, Ph.D. is a researcher focused on health data analysis and health care management. Her personal civic engagement and effort to contribute to improving care based on data, facts and system analysis brought her to the field of health data science. She studied physics and received a doctorate in quantum optics at Charles University (2010). After working at foreign research institutes and in the hi-tech optoelectronic industry, she is returning to the academic environment in the middle phase of her career with a second doctoral study at FBMI ČVUT in the field of HTA. Her dissertation “Methods and models for the analysis of adherence” focuses objectively on the management of cardiovascular diseases in children and adolescents with using national administrative health data.
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