Cynthia Iglesias is senior health economist at the Department of Health Sciences, University of York; and Professor at the Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University. She has a first degree in Actuary, National Autonomous University of Mexico; and both a MSc in Health Economics and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of York. Her main areas of interest are health technology assessment, economic evaluation of medical devices, uncertainty characterisation and Bayesian statistical methods for economic evaluation. She is particularly interested in the contribution of these methods to healthcare policy decision making. Cynthia is one of the two health economists at the Medical Technologies Advisory Committee at NICE.

Kolasa has more than 20 years of academic and occupational experience in the healthcare sector. Her practical skills in the field of health economics were developed during six years employment contract at the Kalmar County Council in Sweden. For the last four years she has been developing experience with the pricing & reimbursement challenges in the field of medical devices. She holds a PhD degree in health economics and is an author of scientific IF publications in the field of health technology assessment and pharmacoeconomics. Nominated by the Ministry of Science to represent Poland in the COST Action CA17117, COST Association. Since Jan 2019, she is co-chair of Global Special Interest Group for Digital Health establish at ISPOR.