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.