Editor's Corner
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Health Technology Assessment, HTA, Lifecycle, CE, HTM, Efficiency, National Policy
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Editor's Corner by Mladen Poluta
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Mladen Poluta, WHO Technical Advisor
Mladen graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1977 with a degree in electrical engineering. After working in the medical device industry he moved to the public sector, joining the Medical Physics Department at the Johannesburg General Hospital in 1982 and focussed primarily on electrocardiology while actively supporting the growth of Clinical Engineering (CE) in South Africa. In 1987 he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as head of the Medical Electronics section with a joint appointment at Groote Schuur Hospital, focusing primarily on biomedical signal processing and its clinical application. UCT’s Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) programme - the only one of its kind in the African Region – was launched in 1999 with Mladen serving as convener/director from its inception until 2015. He facilitated the establishment of Northwestern University’s Global Health Technologies study abroad programme that commenced in 2006 and served as co-director until 2016. From 2012 to 2015 he was also Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Technology Management at the University of Pretoria. In 2016 Mladen returned to the public sector as Director: Health Technology in the Western Cape Department of Health. Mladen has served in an advisory capacity and as consultant for the World Health Organization and other international and national bodies and organisations, including the South African Department of Health, the Medical Research Council, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the Engineering Council of South Africa and the African Federation for Technology in Healthcare (AFTH). He previously served as chair of the IFMBE’s Working Group for Developing and is currently a board member of both the IFMBE’s Clinical Engineering Division and Division for Health Technology Assessment. He is a founding member of the recently established Southern African Health Technology Assessment Society (SAHTAS) and remains active in the advancement of the HTA, BME, CE/HTM and medical device innovation agendas in South Africa and beyond.