1. Current status, position:

Head nurse at the Nursing Direction in charge of Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) for the hospital (1600 beds) and for all the medical specialties.

President in second of the Committee for TPE of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. 32 TPE programs authorized by The Regional Agency of Health. For 3 years she has worked with the 32 programs to get authorization or to introduce new programs (transplanted heart patients, transplanted kidney, etc).

2. Education:

2009: Master (2d degree) of "Public Health specialty education and Health". Anne-Marie Ané teaches TPE to nursing students as well as to educators at the hospital (nurses, doctors, pharmacists, etc).

3. Research area:

Three years ago Mrs. Ané worked with the Haemophiliac patients and professionals for the assessment of their TPE programs (AM Ane, L Wintz, T Sannie, R Gagnayre. Education thérapeutique des patients hémophiles : évaluation pédagogique et formative de 10 programmes. Santé Publique 2011/03 ; 23(2) : 123-134). Now this group is going to go on this work in writing the recommendations for TPE for haemophiliac patients. In 2011 she also wrote a research folder for TPE for heart transplanted patients.