Chair
Rabia Kahveci, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Turkish Evidence Based Medicine Association
Rabia Kahveci is the current and founding Chair of the Turkish Evidence Based Medicine Association. She graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in 1999. She specialized in family medicine at Ankara Training and Research Hospital, gained a master’s degree in Health Technology Assessment and Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, and an associate degree in Management of Health Care Institutions at Eskişehir Anadolu University.
In relation to HTA, she completed certificate programmes on Epidemiology (Université de Montréal), Management of Health Care Institutions, Ethics, Law and Sociology (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Economic Evaluations and Health Policy Analysis (University of Barcelona) and Clinical Decision-making (University of Ottawa). She represented Turkish young family doctors in the European Vasco da Gama Movement in 2006 and was appointed as a Patients for Patient Safety champion by WHO in 2007.
She worked in the Ministry of Health, Directorate of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacies between 2007 and 2010, as a member of the Medical and Economical Evaluation Committee and the Reimbursement Committee for Drugs, where she promoted HTA for reimbursement decisions. Dr Kahveci has worked as an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital since 2010. She started hospital-based HTA in the same hospital and has been the founding and current Chair of ANHTA, the first hospital-based HTA unit in Turkey.
She was elected as an HTAi Director in 2014. Dr Kahveci is the Chair of the Developing Countries Interest Subgroup, a steering committee member of the HTAi Early Career Network and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee in the same society.