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Professor
Uppsala university, Sweden
Björn Wettermark, M.Sc.Pharm, PhD, FISPE, is professor of pharmacoepidemiology at Uppsala university, Sweden and visiting professor at Vilnius university, Lithuania. His research focus mainly on drug utilization as a tool in health policy including prescribing quality indicators, international comparisons of drug utilization, evaluation of prescribing doctors´ adherence to guidelines and patient adherence to treatment as well as intervention studies to promote rational use of drugs. He has previously had various managerial positions in the health region of Stockholm as well as other commitments including membership in national and regional strategic groups on medicine management, scientific advisor to the Swedish Medical Products Agency as well as previous chair of the European Drug Utilization Research group (EuroDURG), the European chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. He is currently board member of the Swedish Society for Epidemiology, the Swedish Pharmaceutical society and EuroDURG as well as senior communication manager in the COST Action “European Network to Advance Best practices & technoLogy on medication adherencE” (ENABLE).
