Carla Rognoni

Carla Rognoni is Researcher of Health Economics & HTA within the Government, Health and Not for Profit Knowledge Group of SDA Bocconi School of Management.

She started the collaboration with CERGAS Bocconi in 2008. At SDA Bocconi Carla coordinates and works actively on different research projects in health economics involving either pharmacological treatments or medical devices with Abbvie, BD, Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Sanofi and many others. She frequently develops project proposals with particular attention to patient involvement and management of ethical aspects.

Her research activities focus on a variety of topics related to health technology assessment (HTA) in both public health and clinical medicine: economic evaluations, evaluation of quality of life, cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses, decision modelling (including Markov processes) and preparation of deliverables for market access purposes.

She published on health economic topics more than 140 papers/abstracts (more than 65 indexed in Pubmed, H-index 23) and few book chapters. Her works have been published in Value in Health, Pharmacoeconomics, Clinical Therapeutics, Clinical Drug Investigation, Lancet Oncology, Scientific Reports, Medical Decision Making and many other Journals. Carla serves as reviewer for various international Journals. She is a member of Italian Health Economics Association (AIES) and International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (ISPOR). She was also appointed from 2016 to 2019 as a member (expert in pharmacoeconomics) of the Drugs Committee at IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy.

Carla earned a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pavia and a PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics (cum laude), awarded based on her research on the topics of decision analysis (cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis and modelling of Markov processes) in the prevention of sudden deaths caused by long QT-syndrome.