Prof Marja Härkänen | Keynote: Text-mining and artificial intelligence for analysing medication administration errors
Marja Härkänen is a registered nurse, PhD, Associate professor at the University of Eastern Finland and Academy research fellow (funding from Research Council of Finland). She is also part-time head nurse at a Research Centre for Nursing Science and Social and Health Management, Kuopio University Hospital, Wellbeing Services County of North Savo. She has studied medication, patient and client safety over ten years.
Prof Rebecca Bartlett Ellis | Keynote: Mapping the Patient Experience: Navigating Medication Self-Management and Adherence Across Contexts
Dr. Ellis is a tenured associate professor and the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Indiana University (IU) School of Nursing. As the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Dr. Ellis serves as the academic affairs officer for the IUSON and provides strategic leadership for BSN, MSN, DNP, and PhD programs. Dr. Ellis has more than 15 years of academic nursing experience. She earned her BS in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University and her BSN, MSN, and PhD from the IU School of Nursing. Dr. Ellis is a board-certified adult health Clinical Nurse Specialist and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Ellis is a recognized leader in the field of medication adherence and has an active funded research program focused on improving medication adherence using digital technologies among persons living with chronic kidney disease. Dr. Ellis’s work has been widely disseminated in peer reviewed publications and national and international presentations. Dr. Ellis is the first nurse in the history of IU School of Nursing to be awarded a patent. She and her team of inventors hold a patent for a smart pillbox. Her current research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NINR).
Prof Fatma Karapinar | Keynote: Adherence and treatment burden in the continuum of care
Dr. Fatma Karapinar is a hospital pharmacist-epidemiologist and Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP, an American certification for pharmacists in geriatric care). She is the head of research at the department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology at Maastricht University Medical Center and is an associate professor at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM) of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Her research focusses on transitional care around hospital discharge, preventing harm due to medication (e.g. readmissions, emergency department visits, prescribing cascades).
Prof Hans De Loof | Keynote: Pharmaceutical care on the road to sustainability and quality?
Hans De Loof is a graduate of Ghent University (RUG) in Belgium, where he pursued his studies in pharmaceutical sciences and where he obtained his PhD titled ‘Apolipoproteins: Relation between Structure and Function’. He further honed his expertise in bioinformatics during his postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (US) and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, with a focus on the molecular dynamics of phospholipids and small peptides. In 1992, he shifted his career to manage a family-owned pharmacy in Belgium, while continuing to contribute to science through occasional publications. Sixteen years later, he returned to academia at the University of Antwerp, initially on a part-time basis, teaching pharmacotherapeutics and pharmaceutical care, and leading research in medication review and drug utilization. This led to a full-time position after he retired from his pharmacy practice in 2017.
Prof Jelle Tichelaar | Keynote: Interprofessional Collaboration for Sustainable Medication Safety
Prof Marie-Paule Schneider Voirol | Keynote: Using implementation science to develop and test a medication adherence program in primary care
Marie P. Schneider, PhD, pharmacist, is associate professor of medication adherence, interprofessionality and health communication at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland (ISPSO), University of Geneva. She is also the scientific Director of the living lab, pharma24, an academic community pharmacy located at the exit of the University Hospitals of Geneva, at the interface between the community and the hospital practices. Her research focuses on medication adherence in chronic diseases and on the implementation of medication adherence intervention programs in routine care. These programs are built upon interprofessional collaborations between patients, pharmacists, physicians and nurses. At ISPSO, she leads a teaching curriculum in heath communication and medication adherence, and her group represents the ISPSO in the interprofessional education programme, which includes all the students in health of the University of Geneva (e.g. physicians, nurses, pharmacists among others). Marie Schneider is a board and honorary member of the International Society for Medication Adherence (ESPACOMP) and has been responsible for the ESPACOMP education committee since 2018. In 2020, she was awarded the ESPACOMP John Urquhart Memorial Lecture.
