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Associate Professor
Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Germany
I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. I received my Medical Degree in 2009 and my Doctorate Degree (Dr. med.) in 2012, and was trained in Clinical Pharmacology from 2012 to 2016 at Charité. I then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology from 2016 to 2018 at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. From 2019 to 2023, I worked as an Assistant Professor at the McGill Department of Medicine and an Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. In 2023, I joined the Charité Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology as an Associate Professor.
My research focuses on the effectiveness and safety of commonly prescribed medications in vulnerable populations, including patients with chronic kidney and liver disease, older adults, as well as patients subjected to polypharmacy and at risk of drug-drug interactions. Given the underrepresentation of such populations in randomized controlled trials, my research program provides much needed information regarding the benefit-risk profile of drugs. I use multiple data sources including the electronic healthcare databases of Québec, the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Datalink, and German administrative healthcare data. My research is supported by the German Research Foundation (Research Fellowship 2016-2018; Heisenberg Program 2023-present), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2 Project Grants as Principal Investigator), and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé (Junior 1 Salary Support Award 2020-2023).