Dr. Itziar Etxeandia Ikobaltzeta is a senior scientist at the American College of Physicians (ACP) clinical guidelines program since 2018. In this role, she provides scientific and methodological oversight to the development of ACP clinical guidelines, liaising between the Clinical Guidelines Committee and its various centers of evidence review.
Prior to her role at ACP, Itziar worked with the Basque Office of Health Technology Assessments on guideline development and GRADE methodology implementation within the Spanish National Program of Guidelines (2008-2013). She served as a consultant for the MacGRADE Centre, participating in international clinical guideline projects (2014-2018), and was a visiting research fellow at McMaster University involved in research projects on guideline development and rapid review methodologies (2013).
Itziar has been an active member of the GRADE Working Group since 2012.