Ana RATH
Orphanet Director & OD4RD2 coordinator, commissioner for Rare Diseases International Lancet Commission on Rare Diseases
| Ana Rath is a medical doctor with a background in general surgery and a Masters degree in Philosophy. She oriented her career to medical information and terminologies in 1997 and joined Orphanet (www.orpha.net) in 2005, where she was Manager of the Orphanet Encyclopaedia, then Scientific Director, and Director of Orphanet and Coordinator of the Orphanet network since 2014. Ana acted as the coordinator of RD-ACTION Joint Action from 2015 to 2018 and of the IRDiRC’s Scientific secretariat until 2017. She chairs the Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology (ORDO), and was member of the WHO’s ICD11 Revision Steering Committee.
She coordinates projects on implementation of RD codification in EU member states (RD-CODE, OD4RD). She contributes to JARDIN Joint Action on RD data standardisation and co-chairs the ERDERA’s Data Service Hub on data and resources ecosystem for RD research in Europe. She is Commissioner at the Lancet Commission for Rare Diseases. |