Below you can read more about their backgrounds.
Eirin Guldsten Robinson
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The aim of my PhD-project is to evaluate health economic effects of different interventions by pharmacists/pharmacies in primary care. Such knowledge is needed by decision makers in a socioeconomic and health political perspective.
In the first work package, I will evaluate the health economic impact of pharmacist interventions on prescriptions in Norwegian pharmacies. The second work package will be a health economic evaluation of pharmacist consultations in antenatal care (SafeStart). Electronic dose dispensing will be evaluated in the final work package.
I am very happy to be part of the PharmaSafe group. Ingunn Björnsdottir and Anne Gerd Granås will be my supervisors. Hedvig Nordeng will also be involved, along with representatives for The Norwegian Medicines Agency and Norwegian Pharmacy Association and Hanna Gyllensten at University of Gothenburg.
I completed my Master in Pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo in 1998. Since then I have worked as Clinical Research Associate, Medical Information Manager and Scientific Advisor for AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Birk Venture. I have also worked as advisor for The Norwegian Association for Pharmacists (NFF). I expect to draw on my previous work experience when working on my PhD-project, and I am very excited to get started in September.
Sarah Hjorth Andersen
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I finished a MSc in Health (Midwifery) from University of Southern Denmark in June 2017. For my Master’s thesis, I worked with data from the Danish National Birth Cohort to investigate the association between mode of delivery, perineal tears and female sexual health in midlife. My Bachelor degree is in Midwifery and I worked some time as a midwife in Denmark and Greenland before I began my MSc.
In my PhD-project, I will use causal inference methods to study associations between maternal use of medication in pregnancy and child neurodevelopment.
I look forward to joining the interdisciplinary work in the PharmaSafe-group!
Anette Vik Jøsendal
I finished my Master in Pharmacy in 2012 and have an ongoing bachelor’s degree in Health Economics and Management. For the past four years I have been working with multidose drug dispensing (MDD) for Apotek 1, both as a pharmacist and as product owner of their MDD computer program. In August 2017, I started as a PhD-candidate at the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research and joined the PharmaSafe-group here at the University of Oslo.
In cooperation with the Norwegian Directorate of eHealth, The Norwegian Centre for E-health research is doing a research-based evaluation of a new system for electronic prescribing for multidose drug dispensing (MDD). My PhD-project will be a part of this evaluation, with the main aim to investigate the quality of medicines management and effects on patient safety. In my project, we will use both qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the quality of prescribing for patients receiving MDD, pharmacist interventions related to MDD prescriptions, discrepancies in medication records before and after the implementations and patient’s perspectives of the MDD system.
Alma Mulac
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I finished two masters in Pharmacy. My first master in Pharmacy was in 2011 at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. My second master in
Pharmacy is from 2016 from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo. I am excited to begin as a PhD candidate in this research group from next year. The PhD project I will be working on is about inovative interventions to improve medication safety.
In my PhD project I will do a reasearch about medication errors in hospital and the effect of closed loop medication administration systems on medication errors and patient safety.
For the time being I am in maternity leave but I look forward to start the research on this exciting project next year.