Ashwanee A. Kjelsnes

Pricing & tender manager

Bærum, Viken, Norway

About

Master in health economics, policy and management and specialised in health economics. Experience working in both adult and newborn intensive care units in Singapore and in Norway. Project work in hospital care process and patient safety improvements. Internship in a healthcare technology startup and health economic analysis, HTA. Leader H-Connect and Deputy leader for health leaders student council at UiO. Interests in health tech, quality and management of healthcare. Hobbies in travelling, exploring new food and meeting people from various cultural backgrounds as well as playing video games.

Experience

  • Pricing and Tender Manager at GSK

    Lead for pricing processes across all therapy areas: oncology, hiv, vaccines and respiratory.

  • Critical Care Registered Nurse at Oslo University Hospital

    Neonatal intensive care unit at Rikshospitalet. Focus on premature babies/babies with congenital heart and syndrome related conditions

  • Critical Care Registered Nurse at Changi General Hospital Pte Ltd

    Surgical intensive care unit. Focus on trauma patients involved in traffic accidents requiring immediate operation and post operative care.

  • Health economics and market access analyst at EpiGuard

    Health economic analyses (cost-effective analysis of Epishuttle, market access strategy, data collection and analysis from various sources)

  • Consultant/Project leader at PA Consulting

    Project leader for various innovational projects in healthcare services. Stakeholders were municipalities and hospitals in various parts of Norway. Main projects focused on digitalisation of patient care services. Target patient groups are children and young people, people with chronic disorders, people with severe mental disorders and substance abuse problems, and frail elderly. Main tasks are conducting insight work, mapping different service pathways, work with profit realization, execution and integration of the new services into the current care systems in hospitals/ municipalities.