Team
Director
MA. Michal Staňák, Dr.phil, AKC
Michal Staňák has been the appointed director of NIHO since January 1st, 2022. In 2020-2021, he led the HTA Agency Department at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, where, together with his team, he prepared documents for the establishment of a self-governing and independent HTA institution. In 2015-2020, he worked as an HTA researcher at the Austrian Institute for HTA, where he contributed to dozens of HTA assessments for Austria, Germany and the European Network of HTA Institutions (EUnetHTA). Since 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Institute of Social Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University. In 2013-2015, he worked as a teacher at a bilingual upper-secondary school in Bratislava.
Michal Staňák studied in England and Austria. He earned a bachelor's degree in the field of Philosophy at King's College London, a master's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Health Economics at University College London and a doctorate in Applied Ethics in the field of decision-making processes in health care at University of Vienna.
Membership
2022 – HTA Coordination Group preparing the implementation of (EU) Regulation 2021/2282 | |
2022 – Heads of Agencies Group | |
2022 – Medicine Appraisal Committee | |
2022 – Specialized Medical Supplies Appraisal Committee | |
2017 – 2023 Member of the Health Technology Assessment International – Ethics interest group | |
2020-2021 Chairman of the Specialized Medical Supplies Appraisal Committee | |
2018 – 2023 Member of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care | |
2017 – 2019 Member of the expert working group on Pharmacoeconomics of the MoH SR |
Team
MUDr. Matej Palenčár
Deputy Director
Head of Clinical Assessment
Daniel Kozák, M.Sc.
Head of Pharmaco-economic Assessment
Martin Lazorík
Head of the Director's Office
Ing. Zuzana Rakovská
Head of the Institute's Office
Lucia Grajcarová, M.Sc.
Researcher
Ing. Kristína Královičová
Researcher
BSc. Viktória Mailan Doanová
Researcher
Mgr. Nina Královič
Researcher
Mgr. Marek Juračka
Researcher
Mgr. Adam Bačik
Researcher
Mgr. Viktor Varga, PhD.
Researcher
Mgr. Jana Blahová, PhD.
Researcher
Mgr. Lukáš Šeliga, PhD.
Researcher
Mgr. Zuzana Majerčíková, PhD.
Researcher
Mgr. Ivan Piovarči, PhD.
Researcher
Ing. Martin Schoeller, PhD.
Researcher
Mgr. Filip Tomek
Researcher
Mgr. Katarína Gáliková
Researcher
Mgr. Katarína Colotková
Researcher
Mgr. Kristína Janáková, PhD.
Researcher
Ing. Milan Piroš
Researcher
Mgr. Lucia Červeňová
Researcher