MD, Master in Public Health (Laval University, Québec, Canadá). PhD (Basque Country University). Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
After six years working as GP, he studied in the Laval University and afterwards worked in Occupational Health for five years. Since 1992 he is the head of the Basque Office for health Technology Assessment (Osteba).

He was Chairman of INAHTA in the period 1996-1999 (vice chairman the previous year) and member of the Executive Committee until 2001.
He has participated in several international collaborating projects, including: EUR-ASSESS, INAHTA collaborating projects (Bone densitometry in osteoporosis and Prostate cancer screening), AGREE, ECHTA, GIN, EUnetHTA, GRADE.

Vision for INAHTA:

I believe very much in the Network, which begun almost like a club and has become one of the biggest collaborative initiatives in HTA. I have been committed with INAHTA for a long time and I really trust the original spirit of the Network.
Nowadays, in a different scenario with several initiatives around, new challenges have arisen. I think that INAHTA should take a relevant position in this changing situation. Member agencies have the experience and the know-how to reach such position.

In addition, improving the methods, implementing collaborating projects and participating in training activities in HTA, will help to develop new HTA units or agencies in regions and countries that need support for better decision making processes.
This will be helpful during the introduction or management of health technologies in their own contexts.

Increasingly Spanish speaking countries are implementing HTA units and agencies, some of them are INAHTA members, others still not. I firmly believe that I could be a link with these emerging colleagues.