Robert vander Stichele

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About Robert vander Stichele

Robert Vander Stichele is a certified clinical pharmacologist, and pharmaco-epidemiological researcher. He retired as a family physician in Ghent, Belgium in 2019, after 41 years of clinical practice, combined with research projects, since 1982. He obtained his PhD (in medical sciences) in 2004, and was appointed as teaching professor in the department of Pharmacology in the University of Ghent. He became a certified clinical pharmacologist in 2009. His interest are on information on and use of medicines. He is member of the Special Interest Group on Drug Utilization in the International Society for Pharmaco-epidemiology (ISPE). He is a senior-researcher in the research alliance on “End-of-Life Care”, a consortium of the University of Ghent, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. He is member of the Board of the International Society of Phthirapterists (ISOP), and of the European Society for the study of Patient Adherence and Compliance (ESPACOMP). He is founding member of the Board of the Belgian Centre for Evidence-Based -Medicine (CEBAM). Currently, he works as an expert in European projects for the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (I-HD), and in the spinoff Ramit of the Department of Medical Informatics of the University of Ghent. He has been appointed as work package leader for the UNICOM project on Identification of Medicinal Products, working on applications of the new ISO IDMP standards to clinical practice and medical clinical research. His publication list comprises more than 180 scientific papers (referenced in Mendeley and Web of Science).