Sweden appoints its first professor of HTA

Susanna Wallerstedt is a senior consultant in clinical pharmacology and has worked at the HTA Center at Sahlgrenska University Hospital since 2018. She has also been a professor of pharmacotherapy at the University of Gothenburg since 2016.

“My new role provides a platform from which I can help develop the HTA Center academically. This is in line with the hospital’s ambition to be a leading university hospital. We will also work to ensure that we remain at the forefront, both in Sweden and internationally, in terms of methods and support for important healthcare decisions. It would also be exciting if HTA could eventually become an academic discipline in its own right at the university,” she said in a press release.