Signal detection Review panel

UMC Signal review panel

Meet the volunteer consultants who support UMC with clinical expertise in our signal detection process.

Reviewing the evidence

UMC is fortunate to have the assistance of experienced international scientists and clinicians in the signal detection process. The Signal Review Panel consists of expert volunteers, often with institutional affiliations in government or academia.

Medicine-adverse effect combinations selected for further review during UMC’s screenings of VigiBase may be sent to members of the Signal Review Panel for in-depth assessment (read more about UMC’s signal detection process here). Members investigate the VigiBase case reports, review the literature, and consider the strength of evidence for the adverse effect being caused by the suspected medicine. The objective of this assessment is to provide data and arguments so that a decision can be made as to whether or not there is a credible signal to be communicated.

A signal is communicated as a summary report published in SIGNAL and subsequently in WHO Pharmaceuticals Newsletter. Some UMC signals are also the subject of research papers or posters published or displayed elsewhere.

Dr Ariel E Arias, Canada, Infectious diseases & Biotherapeutics 
Dr Joanne Barnes, New Zealand, Herbal and traditional medicines
Dr Anna-Lena Berggren, Sweden
Prof Marc Blockman, South Africa
Dr Ian Boyd, Australia, Pharmacovigilance
Dr Elliot Brown, United Kingdom, Pharmacovigilance
Dr Bruno Buljević, Germany, Cardiology
Prof Alfonso Carvajal, Spain, Clinical pharmacology
Prof Imti Choonara, United Kingdom, Paediatric clinical pharmacology 
Prof Andreas Cerny, Switzerland, Hepatology, Infectious diseases (vaccines)
Dr Raquel Herrera Comoglio, Argentina, Internal medicine
Dr Anita Conforti, Italy 
Prof Richard Day, Australia, Clinical pharmacology, Rheumatology  
Dr Rick Fraunfelder, USA, Ophtalmology   
Dr Richard Hill, Australia
Dr Geraldine Hill, New Zealand, Pharmacovigilance
Dr Staffan Hägg, Sweden, Psychiatry, Clinical pharmacology
Dr Ambrose Isah, Nigeria, Clinical pharmacology, Internal medicine
Dr Sylvia Kardaun, Netherlands, Dermatology 
Dr Nilima Kshirsagar, India, Clinical pharmacology

  

Prof P O Lundberg, Sweden
Dr Jens Lundgren, Denmark 
David B Menkes, New Zealand, Academic psychiatry
Dr Ronald H B Meyboom, Netherlands 
Dr Ed Napke, Canada
Prof Eugène P van Puijenbroek,
Netherlands, Clinical pharmacology 
Prof Tamás L Paál, Hungary, Gastroenterolgy 
Dr Martin Pfeiffer, Germany 
Dr Robert Pless, Canada
Dr Emilio J Sanz, Spain, Psychiatry, Clinical pharmacology
Dr Viola Macolić Šarinić, Croatia, Clinical pharmacology (pharmacogenomics)
Dr Ruth Savage, New Zealand 
Dr Debbie Shaw, United Kingdom
Dr Michael Tatley, New Zealand 
Dr Mary Teeling, Ireland, Oncology
Dr Mauro Venegoni, Italy 
Dr Ermelinda Viola, Italy, Musculoskeletal disorders
Dr Mónica Tarapués, Ecuador, Pharmacovigilance
Dr Anthony Wong, Brazil
Dr Li Zhang, China, Herbal and traditional medicine, Endocrinology

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Last modified on: April 20, 2018
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