About ISPE

The International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) is a non-profit international professional membership organization dedicated to advancing the health of the public by providing a forum for the open exchange of scientific information and for the development of policy; education; and advocacy for the field of pharmacoepidemiology, including pharmacovigilance, drug utilization research, outcomes research, comparative effectiveness research, and therapeutic risk management.

Pharmacoepidemiology is the science that applies epidemiologic approaches to studying the use, effectiveness, value and safety of pharmaceuticals. ISPE is firmly committed to providing an unbiased scientific forum to the views of all parties with interests in drug development, drug delivery, drug use, drug costs, and drug effects.

Board, Committees, Councils & Chapters

Officers

	President Sebastian Schneeweiss, ScD, FISPE Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School Vice Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Dept. of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Tel: 617 278-0930 Fax: 617 232-8602
	President-Elect Stephen JW Evans London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT UNITED KINGDOM Phone: 44-207-927-2960
	Immediate Past President Miriam CJM Sturkenboom, FISPE Pharmacoepidemiology Unit Departments of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center PO BOX 2040 3000CA, Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: 31-104088123 Fax: 31-104089447
	Vice President Finance Nancy A Dreyer, FISPE Chief of Scientific Affairs & Senior Vice President Outcome 201 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Tel 617- 715- 6810 FAX: 617- 621-1620
	Vice President Finance-Elect Matthew Reynolds United Biosource Corp. 101 Station Landing 3rd Floor Medford MA 2155 USA Phone: 443-262-9133
	Executive Secretary Mark H Epstein ISPE 5272 River Road Suite 630 Bethesda MD 20816 Tel: (301) 718-6500 x 6537 Fax: (301) 656-0983

Directors

Class of 2010
	Ulf Bergman, FISPE Professor Division of Clinical Pharmacology Karolinska Institute Stockholm SE 141 86 SWEDEN Tel: 46-8-5858-1196 Fax: 0046-8-5858-1070
	Daniel Fife, FISPE Sr. Director Epidemiology Johnson & Johnson 1125 Trenton-Harbourton Road Titusville NJ 08560 Tel: (609) 730-3419 Fax: (609) 730-3477
	Sonia Hernández-Diaz, FISPE Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health 677 Huntington Avenue Kresge Building Room 922 Boston, MA 02115 Tel: (617) 432-3942
	Elena Rivero, FISPE Novartis Farmaceutica SA Gran Via Corts Catalanes No 764 Barcelona 08013 SPAIN Tel: 34-93-306-4885 Fax: 34-93-306-4894
	Scott R. Smith Director, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research US DHHS-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Outcomes and Evidence 540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 Tel: 301-427-1511 Fax: 301- 427-1520
	Songlin Xue Vice President and Head Global Clinical Epidemiology Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation One Health Plaza Building 419, Room 2167 East Hanover, NJ 07936-1080 Tel: 862-778-2898 Fax: 973- 781-6498
Class of 2011
	Alejandro Arana, FISPE Risk MR Pharmacovigilance Services Calle Zurita 14 1D Zaragoza 50001 SPAIN Mobile: +34 661200307
	Ariel E Arias Health Canada 200 Tunney's Pasture Drive Address Locator; 0701C Ottawa ON CANADA Tel: 613-957-6795
	Kate L. Lapane, FISPE Virginia Commonwealth University P.O. Box 980212 Richmond, VA 23298 USA Tel 804-628-2518
	Nicholas D Moore, FISPE Universite Victor Segalen Department of Pharmacology Case 36 - 246, Rue Leo Saigant Bordeaux 33076 FRANCE Tel: 05557572560 Fax: 05557574672
	Alexander M Walker, FISPE Whiscon 70 Walnut Street Wellesey MA 2451 USA Tel: 781-239-8030
Class of 2012
	Elizabeth Andrews, FISPE RTI Health Solutions 200 Park Offices Park Research Triangle Park NC 27709 USA Tel: 9195415819
	Stella Blackburn, FISPE EMA Risk Management Development and Scientific Lead European Medicines Agency 7 Westferry Circus Canary Wharf London E14 4HB UNITED KINGDOM Tel: 44 (0)20 7418 8625 Fax: 44 (0)20 7418 8668
	Lolkje T de Jong-van den Berg University of Groningen Dept Social Pharm & Pharmacoep Antonius Deusinglaan 1 Groningen 9713 AV 9713 AV THE NETHERLANDS Tel: 31-50-363-3330 (7576)
	Colleen Maxwell University of Calgary Dept of Community Health Science and Medicine 3330 Hospital Dr NW Calgary AB T2N 4N1 CANADA Tel: 403-220-6557
	Robert Reynolds Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street MS 150-3-72 New York NY 10017 USA Tel: (212) 733-7757
	Stanley A. Edlavitch (Lifetime Emeritus) University of Missouri School of Medicine M5 105E 2411 Holmes Street Kansas City MO 64108 Tel: (816) 235-6617 Fax: (816) 235-6613

Committee Chairs

Like other voluntary professional organizations, the work of ISPE is conducted through its committees. The committees develop their own missions and annual agendas. Oversight of the functioning of the committees and the society administration is provided by an elected board that meets at least twice each year. The Executive Committee of the board meets monthly. All ISPE members are encouraged to become active on one or more committees.

Archivist Hugh H. Tilson, FISPE ISPE Founding Co-President Public Health Leadership Program UNC, School of Public Health Chapel Hill NC 27599-7400 Tel: (919) 349-9275	Bylaws and Policies Committee Co-Chair Keith Beard, FISPE Consultant Physician Victoria Infirmary Mansionhouse Unit Glasgow G413DX UNITED KINGDOM Tel: 44-141-201-6126
Bylaws and Policies Committee Co-Chair Michael A. Lewis, FISPE EPES Epidemiology GMBH Wulffstrasse 8 Berlin D-12165 GERMANY Tel: 49-30-793-5532	Development Committee Vice-Chair Annlouise R Assaf, FISPE Pfizer, Inc. 50 Pequot Avenue MS 6025-B4258 New London, CT 06320 Tel: 860-732-1258
Development Committee Chair Rhonda L. Bohn, FISPE Epidemiologist Independent Consultant 94 Ridge Road Waban, MA 02468 Tel: 617-957-1856	Co-Editor, Scribe Jill Lavigne Health Science Specialist VA Medical Center 400 Fort Hill Ave. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Tel: (585) 393-7231
Co-Editor, Scribe Jennifer Christian Epidemiologist GlaxoSmithKline 816 Churchill Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Tel: (401) 486-4746	Education Committee Chair James D Lewis University of Pennsylvania 720 Blockley Hall 423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia PA 19104-6021 Tel: (215) 573-5137
Education Committee Vice Chair Andrew McAfee Executive Director i3 Drug Safety 950 Winter Street Waltham MA, 02451 Tel: (610) 917-5181	External Communications Co-Chair Dan Mines Assistant Vice President Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 500 Arcola Road, Dock E Collegeville, PA 19426 Tel: (484) 865-3447
External Communications Committee Co-Chair Susan A Oliveria Principal Epidemiologist EpiSource 1150 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 Tel: (212) 610-0767	Fellowship & Awards Committee Chair Miriam CJM Sturkenboom Pharmacoepidemiology Unit Departments of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center PO BOX 2040 3000CA, Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-104088123
Finance Committee Chair Nancy A Dreyer, FISPE Outcome 201 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: (617) 621-6426	Global Development Committee Chair Byung-Joo Park, FISPE Professor Seoul University College of Medicine 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-Gu Seoul 110-799 KOREA Tel: 82-2-7408325
Finance Committee Vice Chair Matthew Reynolds United Biosource Corp. 101 Station Landing 3rd Floor Medford MA 2155 USA Tel: (443) 262-9133	Global Development Committee Vice Co-Chair Kiyoshi Kubota Professor Dept. of Pharmacoepidemiology University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo Tokyo 113-8655 Japan Tel: +81-338155411 #35821
	Global Development Committee Vice Co-Chair Yeahuei Kao National Cheng Kung University No.1 University Road Tainan 70101 Taiwan Tel: 886 6 235 3535 5688
Management Oversight Committee Chair Miriam CJM Sturkenboom Pharmacoepidemiology Unit Departments of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center PO BOX 2040 3000CA, Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-104088123	Membership Committee Chair Robert Reynolds Pfizer Inc 235 East 42nd Street MS 150-3-72 New York NY 10017 USA Tel: (212) 733-7757
Nominating Committee Chair Miriam CJM Sturkenboom Pharmacoepidemiology Unit Departments of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center PO BOX 2040 3000CA, Rotterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31-104088123	Public Policy/Ethics Committee Chair Til Stürmer, FISPE Head, Pharmacoepidemiology Program Director, UNC-GSK Center for Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill McGavran-Greenberg, CB # 7435 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435
Publications Committee Chair Alex Ward United Biosource Corporation 101 Station Landing Medford MA 2155 Tel: (781) 960-0227	Public Policy/Ethics Committee Co-Chair Jesper Hallas Professor University of Southern Denmark JB Winslowsvej 19-2 Odense DK-5000 Denmark
Scholarship Committee Chair Frank May, FISPE 149 Mills Terrace North Adelaide 5006 Australia
Scientific Program Committee Chair Corinne de Vries Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology University of Bath Calverton Down Bath, BA2 7AY United Kingdom Tel: +44-01225384228	Strategic Planning Committee Stephen JW Evans London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT United Kingdom Phone: +44-2079272960

Councils

Academic Council Chair Anna Birna Almarsdóttir Professor of Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Iceland Hagi, Hofsvallagata 53 107 Reykjavík, Iceland Tel. +354 525 5217	Academic Council Co-Chair Susan Sinclair Roberts University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Rd Dept of Clinical Research Wilmington NC 28403 USA Tel: (910) 796-0052
Government/Regulatory Council Chair Sabine Straus Medicines Evaluation Board Kalvermarkt 53 The Hague 2511CB The Netherlands Tel: +31-0703567495	Government/Regulatory Council Co-Chair Gunilla Sjölin-Forsberg Enhetschef (Head of Department of Drug Safety) Läkemedelsverket (Medical Products Agency) Tel: +46 18 174798 Fax: +46 18 548566
Industry and Service Provider Council Chair Wei Dong Genentech, Inc. 1 DNA Way MS 66 South San Francisco CA 94080-4990 USA Tel: 650-225-5287	Industry and Service Provider Council Co-Chair Harry Seifert GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals 2301 Renaissance Blvd RN0220 King of Prussia PA 19406 USA Tel: 610-787-3481
Student Council Co-Chair Christopher Rowan University of Pennslyvania 2421 Naudain Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 Tel: (313) 530-1905	Student Council Co-Chair Irini-Alexia Terzakis University of Bath Calverton Down Bath BA2 7AY United Kingdom Tel: +44-1225384142

Special Interest Groups (SIG)

Biologics
Contact: Joanna Haas

Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
Contact: Scott Smith

Database
Contact: Robert LoCasale

Drug Utilization/Health Services Research
Contact: Robert H. Vander Stichele

Medications in Pregnancy
Contact: Lolkje T de Jong-van den Berg

Molecular Epidemiology/Biomarkers/Pharmacogenetics
Contact: Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee and Efrosini Setakis

Student Chapters

Harvard School of Public Health
Faculty Contact: Sonia Hernández-Diaz, FISPE

College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati
Faculty Contact: Jeff Guo

School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty Contact: Til Sturmre, FISPE

College of Pharmacy, University of Texas
Faculty Contact: James Wilson

University of Maryland, Baltimore
Contact: Sheila Weiss Smith, FISPE

University of National Cheng Kung
Faculty contact: Yea-Huei Kao Yang

Last updated: 10 September 2008