Ana completed her BSc in Physiotherapy at the University of Chile in 2007. She worked for 4 years in a paediatric Intensive Care Unit in a private hospital in Santiago, Chile and then started a MSc in Evidence-based healthcare at the University of Oxford in 2012.
Ana returned to Chile to work teaching research methods and evidence-based practice to undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapists at Clinica Alemana Universidad de Desarrollo, Santiago and completed her PhD in June 2018 at the University of York.
Ana's main research interests include: effectiveness of physiotherapy in intensive care units and current standards of practice, evaluation of health policies, quality and quality improvement in healthcare, economic evaluation of health services.