Professor of clinical pharmacology
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jesper Hallas graduated as an MD from University of Copenhagen in 1984. He has a background in clinical medicine as a specialist in internal medicine, medical gastroenterology and clinical pharmacology. JH was one of the co-founders of the Danish Society of Pharmaco-epidemiology and became its first president in 1994. Since 2004, JH has been a professor of clinical pharmacology at University of Southern Denmark, and he was president of ISPE 2017-18 and chaired the ICPEs in Copenhagen 2008 and 2022..
JH has worked with applied pharmacoepidemiology and with developing a variety of analytic templates and principles, such as the symmetry analysis, the waiting time distribution and the principles underlying the individual-level drug use statistics He has more than 450 publications (2023) within the fields of clinical medicine, clinical epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology.