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Evidence Synthesis Expert | Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses

Profile Summary

Multidisciplinary researcher and biostatistician with 8+ years of experience in clinical, observational, and public health research, delivering high-quality systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and evidence syntheses for academia, HTA institutions, and industry. Experienced in study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of clinical and real-world data, producing decision-grade evidence across healthcare, nutrition, diagnostics, digital health, and medical technologies. Researcher with an extensive peer-reviewed publication record and advanced proficiency in R, SPSS, RevMan, and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, with strong expertise in PRISMA, GRADE, and risk-of-bias frameworks.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biostatistics
• ★ Meta-Analysis
• ★ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ R
• ☆ Literature Review

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing

Research Meta-Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Biostatistican

Systematic Review Consultants LTD

April 2024 - Present

Systematic Reviewer

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

September 2021 - Present

Systematic Review Researcher

Austrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment

April 2025 - November 2025

Researcher

Institute of Medical Research, University of Belgrade

February 2016 - March 2018

Education

PhD Degree (Department of Food Safety and Quality Management)

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

November 2023 - Present

MSc Degree (Department of Food Science and Technology)

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

October 2014 - October 2015

BSc degree (Department of Food Science and Technology)

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

October 2010 - October 2014

Certifications

• Hypothesis Testing in Public Health

  Coursera, Johns Hopkins University

  June 2024 - Present

• Summary Statistics in Public Health

  Coursera, Johns Hopkins University

  April 2024 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Ana Pantović, Vuk Stevanović, Irena Krga, Marija Takić, Nevena Vidović (2025). Acute effects of half-marathon and aronia juice on lipid and hematological parameters, muscle function and oxidative status in male runners . Exercise and Quality of Life.

Ana Pantović, Vuk Stevanović, Irena Krga, Marija Takić, Nevena Vidović (2025). Acute effects of half-marathon and aronia juice on lipid and hematological parameters, muscle function and oxidative status in male runners . Exercise and Quality of Life.

Fidelia Cascini, Ana Pantovic, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Valeria Puleo, Lucia De Maio, Walter Ricciardi (2024). Health data sharing attitudes towards primary and secondary use of data: a systematic review . eClinicalMedicine.

Fidelia Cascini, Ana Pantovic, Yazan Al-Ajlouni, Omar Al Ta'ani, Giovanna Failla, Andriy Melnyk, Paul Barach, Walter Ricciardi (2023). Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth . Telehealth and Medicine Today.

Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth @article{Cascini_Pantovic_Al-Ajlouni_Al Ta’ani_Failla_Melnyk_Barach_Ricciardi, title={A Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth}, volume={8}, url={https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/article/view/415}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong> The literature supporting telehealth management is growing accelerated by the COVID-pandemic. We hypothesize that there are risks of adverse events associated with telehealth interventions.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A review of PubMed (including MEDLINE), Embase, ISI (Web of Science), VHL/GHL, Scopus, Science Direct, and PsycINFO was conducted for all adverse events associated with telehealth from January 1, 1960 to March 1, 2021. This systematic review and meta-analyses were conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 5,144 citations 78 published studies met criteria for quality evaluation and underwent full text abstraction including the qualitative synthesis. Of the 78 included studies 8 were included in the quantitative synthesis resulting in 2 meta-analyses. The results of the meta-analysis suggest that monitoring patients using telehealth techniques is associated with 40% lower mortality risks among patients suffering from heart failure, compared to those who received traditional care. The results of the random-effects meta-analysis showed the pooled relative risk of mortality to be 0.60, indicating that patients that underwent telemonitoring had a lower mortality risk compared with the patients that underwent usual care. Among patients with heart implants, patients who received telemonitoring had a 35% lower mortality risk compared to patients receiving traditional care.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: While RCTs of telehealth interventions demonstrate enhanced patient outcomes in a number of studies and pave the way to evidence-based practice, the heterogeneity of the research questions suggest an important need for more complementary studies with consistent outcome assessments.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Telehealth and Medicine Today}, author={Cascini, Fidelia and Pantovic, Ana and Al-Ajlouni, Yazan and Al Ta’ani, Omar and Failla, Giovanna and Melnyk, Andriy and Barach, Paul and Ricciardi, Walter} } . Telehealth and Medicine Today.

A Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth @article{Cascini_Pantovic_Al-Ajlouni_Al Ta’ani_Failla_Melnyk_Barach_Ricciardi_2023, title={A Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth}, volume={8}, url={https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/article/view/415}, DOI={10.30953/thmt.v8.415}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong> The literature supporting telehealth management is growing accelerated by the COVID-pandemic. We hypothesize that there are risks of adverse events associated with telehealth interventions.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A review of PubMed (including MEDLINE), Embase, ISI (Web of Science), VHL/GHL, Scopus, Science Direct, and PsycINFO was conducted for all adverse events associated with telehealth from January 1, 1960 to March 1, 2021. This systematic review and meta-analyses were conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 5,144 citations 78 published studies met criteria for quality evaluation and underwent full text abstraction including the qualitative synthesis. Of the 78 included studies 8 were included in the quantitative synthesis resulting in 2 meta-analyses. The results of the meta-analysis suggest that monitoring patients using telehealth techniques is associated with 40% lower mortality risks among patients suffering from heart failure, compared to those who received traditional care. The results of the random-effects meta-analysis showed the pooled relative risk of mortality to be 0.60, indicating that patients that underwent telemonitoring had a lower mortality risk compared with the patients that underwent usual care. Among patients with heart implants, patients who received telemonitoring had a 35% lower mortality risk compared to patients receiving traditional care.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: While RCTs of telehealth interventions demonstrate enhanced patient outcomes in a number of studies and pave the way to evidence-based practice, the heterogeneity of the research questions suggest an important need for more complementary studies with consistent outcome assessments.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Telehealth and Medicine Today}, author={Cascini, Fidelia and Pantovic, Ana and Al-Ajlouni, Yazan and Al Ta’ani, Omar and Failla, Giovanna and Melnyk, Andriy and Barach, Paul and Ricciardi, Walter}, year={2023}, month={Apr.} } . Telehealth and Medicine Today.

Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth @article{Cascini_Pantovic_Al-Ajlouni_Al Ta’ani_Failla_Melnyk_Barach_Ricciardi, title={A Systematic Review Identifying Adverse Health Outcomes and Mortality Rates Associated with Telehealth}, volume={8}, url={https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/article/view/415}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong> The literature supporting telehealth management is growing accelerated by the COVID-pandemic. We hypothesize that there are risks of adverse events associated with telehealth interventions.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A review of PubMed (including MEDLINE), Embase, ISI (Web of Science), VHL/GHL, Scopus, Science Direct, and PsycINFO was conducted for all adverse events associated with telehealth from January 1, 1960 to March 1, 2021. This systematic review and meta-analyses were conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 5,144 citations 78 published studies met criteria for quality evaluation and underwent full text abstraction including the qualitative synthesis. Of the 78 included studies 8 were included in the quantitative synthesis resulting in 2 meta-analyses. The results of the meta-analysis suggest that monitoring patients using telehealth techniques is associated with 40% lower mortality risks among patients suffering from heart failure, compared to those who received traditional care. The results of the random-effects meta-analysis showed the pooled relative risk of mortality to be 0.60, indicating that patients that underwent telemonitoring had a lower mortality risk compared with the patients that underwent usual care. Among patients with heart implants, patients who received telemonitoring had a 35% lower mortality risk compared to patients receiving traditional care.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: While RCTs of telehealth interventions demonstrate enhanced patient outcomes in a number of studies and pave the way to evidence-based practice, the heterogeneity of the research questions suggest an important need for more complementary studies with consistent outcome assessments.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Telehealth and Medicine Today}, author={Cascini, Fidelia and Pantovic, Ana and Al-Ajlouni, Yazan and Al Ta’ani, Omar and Failla, Giovanna and Melnyk, Andriy and Barach, Paul and Ricciardi, Walter} } . Telehealth and Medicine Today.

Ana Pantović, Nevena Vidović, Vuk Stevanović, Ivana Šarac, Kristina Robal, Stevan Stevanović, Maria Glibetic (2022). Chokeberry juice affects membrane lipid status and cellular antioxidant enzymes in healthy women with aerobic training activity . Exercise and Quality of Life.

Knez M, Pantovic A, Tako E, Boy E(2022). FADS1 and FADS2 as biomarkers of Zn status - a systematic review and meta-analysis . Critical reviews in food science and nutrition.

Social media and attitudes towards a COVID-19 vaccination: A systematic review of the literature <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=/servlet/useragent"> </head> . eClinicalMedicine.

Fidelia Cascini, Ana Pantovic, Yazan Al-Ajlouni, Giovanna Failla, Walter Ricciardi(2021). Attitudes, acceptance and hesitancy among the general population worldwide to receive the COVID-19 vaccines and their contributing factors: A systematic review . EClinicalMedicine. 40. p. 101113. Elsevier {BV}

Bass EJ, Pantovic A, Connor MJ, Loeb S, Rastinehad AR, Winkler M, Gabe R, Ahmed HU(2021). Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging targeted biopsy techniques compared to transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate: a systematic review and meta-analysis . Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases.

Bass EJ, Pantovic A, Connor M, Gabe R, Padhani AR, Rockall A, Sokhi H, Tam H, Winkler M, Ahmed HU(2020). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of biparametric prostate MRI for prostate cancer in men at risk . Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases.

Aronia juice consumption prior to half-marathon race can acutely affect platelet activation in recreational runners @article{Stevanovi__2020, title={Aronia juice consumption prior to half-marathon race can acutely affect platelet activation in recreational runners}, volume={45}, ISSN={1715-5320}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2019-0267}, DOI={10.1139/apnm-2019-0267}, number={4}, journal={Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism}, publisher={Canadian Science Publishing}, author={Stevanović, Vuk and Pantović, Ana and Krga, Irena and Zeković, Milica and Šarac, Ivana and Glibetić, Maria and Vidović, Nevena}, year={2020}, month=apr, pages={393–400} } . Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

Knez M, Pantovic A, Zekovic M, Pavlovic Z, Glibetic M, Zec M(2019). Is There a Link between Zinc Intake and Status with Plasma Fatty Acid Profile and Desaturase Activities in Dyslipidemic Subjects? . Nutrients.

Vidovic N, Faid F, Pantovic A, Nikolic M, Debeljak-Martacic J, Zekovic M, Milesevic J, Drah MM, Zec M(2019). Vitamin D and cardio-metabolic biomarkers: small-scale comparative study between Libyan migrants and resident women in Serbia . The Libyan journal of medicine.

Hadi A, Arab A, Moradi S, Pantovic A, Clark CCT, Ghaedi E(2019). The effect of l-arginine supplementation on lipid profile: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials . The British journal of nutrition.

(2019). Possible anti-obesity effects of phytosterols and phytostanols supplementation in humans: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials .

(2019). Vitamin D Is Inversely Related to Obesity: Cross-Sectional Study in a Small Cohort of Serbian Adults .