Prof. Saad Shakir Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU), UK

Prof. Saad Shakir MB ChB LRCP&S FRCP FFPM MRCGP, has been working in pharmacovigilance & pharmacoepidemiology for more than a decade. He is the Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) in Southampton, an academic unit associated with the University of Portsmouth, where he leads a research team with... read morean active program for monitoring and studying the safety of medicines. He has worked and advised on many drug safety issues including product withdrawals and major safety hazards. He is the author of many publications on pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology and a member of the editorial board of the journals of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.