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Are you interested in how genetic and epigenetic data can be used to gain new insights in epidemiology?

We had a great group of UiO:Life Science students working with us this summer! They had backgrounds from biosciences, health economy, psychology, neuroscience, public health and informatics.

A team of the PharmaSafe group traveled to Copenhagen to join the 38^th International Conference on PharmacoEpidemiology (ICPE 2022).

In June 2022 Johanne Naper Trønnes and Gerd Marie Harris defended their PhDs, and this summer their last papers were published!

PharmaSafe researchers Jing Zhao and Elisabeth Pedersen attended the Second General Assembly of VERDI in Padua, Italy, June 28–30.

PharmaSafe postdoc Nhung Trinh and PhD student Emilie Willoch Olstad attended the one-week summer course “Genetic and Epigenetic Epidemiology” in Florence, Italy, organised by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE). The course covered both fundamental knowledge and emerging methodologies within the field, presented by lecturers at the forefront of genetic and epigenetic epidemiological research.

On behalf of PharmaSafe, Eimir Hurley presented the work that has been done to transform the Norwegian data to the OMOP Common Data Model.

PharmaSafe researchers have published a new article, "Low reliability of DNA methylation across Illumina Infinium platforms in cord blood: implications for replication studies and meta-analyses of prenatal exposures", in Clinical Epigenetics. Read it here.

Helga Gardarsdottir, PhD, associate professor at Utrecht Center For Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation, will give a lecture in Gydas vei 8, Auditorium 1, June 23, 14.00-15.00. The title of the lecture is "Real World Evidence for regulatory and clinical decision making". Please see the poster below.

Andrea Margulis, MD, ScD, ScM, Director of Epidemiology, RTI Health Solutions, will give a lecture in Gydas vei 8, auditorium 1, 15.30-16.30, June 9, 2022. The title of the lecture is "Perinatal pharmacoepidemiology: a literature review on completeness of reporting". Please see the poster below.

PharmaSafe researchers set out to answer the question "Is prenatal exposure to triptans associated with an increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring?". 

PharmaSafe doctoral candidate Gerd Marie Eskerud Harris defends her thesis "Migraine pharmacotherapy during pregnancy: Utilization patterns and associations with child neurodevelopment" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Marion Taine is a researcher in epidemiology and a paediatrician. She joins PharmaSafe to contribute to the IMI concePTION project assessing migraine drug utilisation during pregnancy. We wish her a warm welcome! Below, Marion presents herself.

The Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University/ Professor Robert Platt is one of our international partners in the iAPOGEE INTPART project. Vivian has received an iAPOGEE Scholarship to come and work with us on the treatment of cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy. Below she presents herself.

Did you know that the experiences of each and every one of us are important to understand the side effects of medications? In the fourth and last video in our series of PharmaSafe videos, researcher Angela Lupattelli and professors Hedvig Nordeng and Anne Gerd Granås discuss medications and side effects with the "Twitter doctor" Wasim Zahid. 

Is it safe to use medications during pregnancy? In the third video in our series of four PharmaSafe videos, researcher Angela Lupattelli discusses medication use in pregnancy with the "Twitter doctor" Wasim Zahid. 

PhD candidate Anette Vik Jøsendal and co-authors recently published an article in BMC Health Services Research, studying the implementation of an electronically shared medication list in primary care in Oslo. Read more about the study here!

Are we too scared of using medications while breastfeeding? In the second video in our series of four PharmaSafe videos, professor Hedvig Nordeng discusses breastfeeding and medication use with the "Twitter doctor" Wasim Zahid. 

Join us for an evening full of pharmacy history and stories from those who helped change our pharmaceutical practices, from the time before regulations and privatization to the present day.

In the first in a series of four PharmaSafe videos, Granås discusses patient safety and  medicine use with well-known medical doctor Wasim Zahid. The video is in Norwegian.

Thomas Boissiere O'Neill joins PharmaSafe. Welcome! He presents himself below.

We welcome Hilde Kloster Smerud as a new lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy, UiO. Below she presents herself.

Elisabeth Pedersen holds a Master in Pharmacy, and a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology from the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø (UiT). She now joins PharmaSafe to contribute to the COVID-19 related projects, including the EU-COVID-19, and the Nordic COHERENCE. We wish her a warm welcome! Below, Elisabeth presents herself.

Jing Zhao joins PharmaSafe. She has a background in biostatistics, and will be part of the Nordic COHERENCE project to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations. She presents herself below. Welcome!

The PharmaSafe yearly report of 2021 is now available! Download it here.