January 23, 2014

Visitors to Global Medicines Program: Drs. Alex Dodoo and Feiko ter Kuile

Dr. Andy Stergachis with Dr. Alex Dodoo

The Global Medicines Program welcomed two esteemed colleagues over the past week, Dr. Alex Dodoo, BPharm, MSc, PhD and Dr. Feiko ter Kuile, MD, PhD.  Dr Dodoo is a pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist and Head of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Ghana Medical School and Head of a new WHO Collaborating Centre in Accra for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance.  The Collaborating Center manages and maintains the recently launched Pharmacovigilance Toolkit. Dr. ter Kuile is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, a global network of 41 research institutions.  The UW works with the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium in the area of pharmacovigilance, including the safety of medicines used during early pregnancy.   “Both Feiko and Alex are valued collaborators and we were pleased to have the opportunity to visit and work with them during their stays in the Seattle-area,” said Andy Stergachis.