Til Stürmer, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been chosen as president-elect of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE). His three-year term of service will begin at ISPE’s 2012 annual meeting Aug. 23-26 in Barcelona.
Til Stürmer, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been chosen as president-elect of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE). His three-year term of service will begin at ISPE’s 2012 annual meeting Aug. 23-26 in Barcelona.
Stürmer, who also heads UNC’s Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, focuses his research both on epidemiologic methods and clinical epidemiology. His clinical research includes chemoprevention of colorectal cancer and dementia with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; determinants of antibiotic resistance; and hormone therapy, pain and subclinical inflammation in osteoarthritis.
Pharmacoepidemiology is the science that applies epidemiologic approaches to studying the use, effectiveness, value and safety of pharmaceuticals.
Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Linda Kastleman, (919) 966-8317, linda_kastleman@unc.edu