Rodolfo Catena

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT RODOLFO CATENA

Rodolfo Catena is an Assistant Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management and Convener (MBA programme) at UCL Global Business School for Health.He teaches operations and supply chain management and data analytics for the healthcare sector. Prior to UCL, Rodolfo taught Technology and Operations Management for the 2020/21 Saïd Business School MBA cohort and has become an Associate Scholar at the University of Oxford. He joined the School of Health and Care Management at Arden University in February 2020 as an Associate Lecturer. He was promoted to the role of Lecturer in April 2021. In September 2021 he was promoted to the role of Senior Lecturer. He became the Lead of the Postgraduate Programmes and contributed to successfully launch two new master’s degrees. As Lead of the Postgraduate Programmes at Arden University, he has led the development of new courses for distance learning students. He has coordinated a team consisting of permanent lecturers and contractors who have written and delivered the lessons. Rodolfo has co-organised the first Value-Based Health Care course delivered by the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement, an organisation co-founded by Prof. Michael Porter from Harvard Business School, the Karolinska Institutet and The Boston Consulting Group.Rodolfo is an empiricist and uses large amounts of data to identify solutions for Value-Based Health Care. He employs quantitative methods to identify how to improve the delivery of care. He further developed his skills to manage large datasets while in the United States working for an organisation co-founded by Prof. MaCurdy from Stanford University.Prior to returning to academia, Rodolfo has supported public and private organisations across the world in a list of countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.Rodolfo’s research has been published in journals such as the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Operations Management and Operations Research. Rodolfo has been an advocate for the use of health data in the current Covid-19 crisis.Rodolfo has a background in engineering, he has a Master’s from UC Berkeley and two degrees from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bologna. He supports the use of AI and Big Data solutions for Value-Based Health Care. Rodolfo has a doctorate from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where he has specialised in Operations Management.