LE POGAM Marie-Annick

I am a board-certified specialist physician in Family Medicine (FR) and Public Health and Prevention (CH). I graduated from the University of Paris XI (FR) in 2003 with a Master's degree in Public Health (option Biostatistics), and I am currently completing a PhD in Life Sciences at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (CH) and following the PhD Program in Public Health of the Swiss School of Public Health plus (SSPH+). After more than ten years of professional experience in university hospitals and government agencies in France, I joined the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP) in Lausanne at the end of 2013. I am currently working as an associate physician in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems at the University Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) - a new organisation created in 2019 from several institutions, including IUMSP. My research and teaching activities focus on assessing healthcare quality and patient safety using routinely collected electronic health data and international classifications for coding health information. I am also interested in the implementation of quality and safety improvement strategies and patient experience with care. Furthermore, keen on health innovation, I conduct research projects and coordinate teaching on digital health and predictive modelling using machine learning or standard statistical approaches. Finally, given my expertise and interest in these topics, I was appointed to the Steering Committee of the European Public Health Association's (EUPHA) Digital Health Section and the World Health Organisation's Topic Advisory Group on Quality and Safety (WHO-TAG Quality and Safety).