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Chief Science Officer
Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Sweden
Niklas Norén is Chief Science Officer at the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, and a member of its executive leadership team. He has published extensively on statistical pattern discovery in observational medical data, primarily adverse event reports and electronic medical records. He has published scientific papers on duplicate detection and subgroup discovery that have been internationally awarded. He is a member of the editorial board for Drug Safety, and he has led several international collaborative projects in pharmacovigilance including the signal detection work-package in IMI PROTECT; the work-packages on detecting substandard medicines and drug dependence in Monitoring Medicines; and the social media analytics work-package in IMI WEB-RADR. He is a member of the CIOMS XIV working group on Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacovigilance. Dr Norén holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Stockholm University in 2007 and a MSc in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in 2002.
