Anna Turco Email & Phone Number

Root, Lucerne, Switzerland

Switzerland

Past projects:★ Project manager for a portable solution for UTI management: EIT Health WildCard program, where ~40 healthcare professionals coming from all over Europe worked to develop game-changing solutions for digital therapeutics and women’s health.★ Healthcare & innovation expert, reviewer, language team coordinator: A set of needs-based recommendations and innovative digital solutions tailored to the needs of long-term care facilities (The Digital Aid Project, supported by the European Institute of Technology (EIT) Health)★ Co-ideator and business strategy developer: 1st place winning solution at EUvsVirus (supported by the European Institute of Technology), in the category "Business Continuity - Stay close to your customers" ★ Expert contractor, category “Healthcare and digital solutions” - Reviewer for EIT Health InnoStars programmeMain tasks/skills:- Clarify, prioritize and develop processes to handle complex tasks- Perform research, analysis and contextualization of current situation, to allow for better knowledge of the sector.- Understand needs and pain points. Facilitate discussions to obtain relevant information or brainstorm new ideas, using a variety of traditional and creative thinking techniques.- Provide solutions, recommendations, or project proposals to favor innovation. - Develop a final product that matches customer needs.

★ Editorial management of one of the Open Access, medical titles of Karger’s portfolio:peer-review, manuscript decisions according to journal scope, editorial board management

Switzerland

★ Redefinition and day-to-day management of a publishing product (brainstorming, design thinking approach; assessing opportunities, challenges, and competitors; performing market analyses; managing a network of „early adopter” users and testing product prototype; setting KPIs and evaluating performance; coordination of related internal stakeholders)★ Representing and promoting publications and services to external, international stakeholders

Baar, Canton Of Zug, Switzerland

★ Identified gaps and developed processes which increased high-quality scientific output (2 new SOPs, internal publications policy to meet ICMJE and GPP3 guidelines, standardized publication planning and timeline management, conference tracker, medical writers pool increase and management)★ Led the process of reshaping internal procedures and challenging the status quo, resulting in increased adherence to ICMJE and GPCAP guidelines, strategic conference and journal selection, updated procedures, publication times reduced by 50%★ Assessed the impact and collaboratively adapted new research procedures into internal processes (study contract updates for publication and presentation activities; >5x conference presence, 2x presence at high-impact meetings, +120% deliverables at conferences/in journals vs previous year)★ Coordinated efforts and resources to deliver timely publications related to all franchises, globally. Follow-up of publication processes from draft to publication (~20/year) ★ Continuously interacted with internal and external resources to fully satisfy publication needs, globally (in-person and remote)

Baar, Canton Of Zug, Switzerland

★ Assisted the Global Clinical Strategy team in the contracting of clinical studies with research sites★ Communicated with HCPs from selected worldwide centres to find and define the best study outline★ Expanded and maintained all tracking and documentation functions associated with clinical research and clinical research outcome (SOPs, audits, activity trackers, site scorecards, presentations, ...)

Ku Leuven

★ Bridged between the technical and medical departments and identified medical needs. Translated needs into technical solutions★ Prompted discussions with various stakeholders (academic, medical, engineering, ...) to ensure applicability of proposed solutions★ Reconstructed cardiac/brain PET and analysed clinical and preclinical studies★ Technical support and troubleshooting (Siemens PET/CT, microPET)★ Presented at local and international meetings (prize-awarded oral presentation at IEEE NSS-MIC)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biomedical Sciences

Title: Improved Quantification of Myocardial FDG Uptake combining PET/CT and 4D anatomical imaging. This work has demonstrated that even.

Iuis - Institut Universitaire D'Ingénierie En Santé - Elabparis, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Discover the context of Entrepreneurship in Healthcare. 1. From medical need to market need 2. Prototyping and clinical trials 3. Business.

Eit Summer School - Certificate Of Completion, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

EIT Health organized for the first time in 2015 a summer school to foster creativity and innovative thinking for health-related solutions.

Exchange Student, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Swedish language classesExchange semester (spring 2012) at the technical university of Stockholm (KTH), where my.

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 110/110 Cum Laude

Exchange Student (Fall Semester), Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Epigenetics, Microscopy, Neural plasticityExchange semester (Fall 2011) at Boston University.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biomedical Engineering, 110/110 Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Robotic hand rehabilitation for acute stroke patients (thesis)

Literature High School Degree, Humanities - Latin, Greek, Philosophy, History, Writing, 100/100