Dr. Carisi Anne Polanczyk

Dr. Polanczyk is a cardiologist, Professor of Medicine and Coordinator of the National Institute for Health Technology Assessment/CNPq in Brazil. She graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and completed a research fellowship in clinical effectiveness and health economic analysis at Harvard University, USA.  Dr. Polanczyk has been appointed as Professor of the Graduate Programs in Epidemiology and Cardiology at UFRGS.

Prior experience includes chief of Clinical Research Center of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Coordinator of the Master-degree Program in Health Technology Management, and consultant for the Brazilian Health Ministry  – Department of Health Care/ High complexity and ANVISA in supporting Health Technology Assessment issues. Currently, she is the Chief of Cardiology at Hospital Moinhos de Vento, and ahead of Heart Failure Standard Set implementation since 2017.

Her clinical areas of interest include clinical effectiveness, quality of healthcare and health economic analysis with a focus on cardiovascular disease. In the last years, she has expanded her ideas to outcomes measurement, longitudinal  assessment of patients with cardiovascular disease; looking at opportunities to increase value and innovate in healthcare delivery. Consequently, in 2019, Dr. Polanczyk took a sabbatical in Boston, studying aspects of Value Based Health Care and micro-costing studies. She has published 207 articles and has advised 76 graduate students.