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Presentation
Norway is home to some of the world's most comprehensive and well-maintained health care registries. These registries contain valuable data on patient demographics, diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes, and as demonstrated during the pandemic, represent a great opportunity for researchers to gain insight into the effectiveness and safety of pharmaceuticals for patients in real-world settings.
The Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Research (PharmaSafe) group, led by Professor Hedvig Nordeng at the Dpt. Pharmacy, MN Faculty, UiO has over fifteen years’ experience working with Norwegian health care data. They have built expertise in linking and analyzing data from health care registries and national cohorts to perform real-world, observational studies on use and safety of pharmaceuticals, especially among vulnerable patients. Over the past years, they have put great efforts into creating a data analytical pipeline at the University of Oslo for rapid analysis of urgent pharmacovigilance signals. Multidisciplinary collaboration across UiO departments, especially with researchers at IFI and the IT department (e.g., TSD) has been essential in this achievement.
In this presentation, Professor Hedvig Nordeng will share their experience with developing data analytical pipelines for Norwegian linked health registry data using different Common Data Models (e.g., OMOP, Nordic CDM, ConcePTION) to answer public health questions about use and safety of pharmaceuticals. The Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU?) project will be presented.
Speaker
Hedvig Nordeng is a Professor at the Section for Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy at the University of Oslo. She has a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacotherapy on drug use during pregnancy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo in 2005. Her expertise is in perinatal pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacotherapy in pregnancy and lactation. She has studied risks of prenatal exposure to medication on immediate pregnancy outcome (e.g. birth weight, malformations) and long term outcomes such as neurodevelopmental disorders and childhood cancer.
Program
12:00 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:15 – "Capitalizing on Norwegian health registry data in large European federated data base initiatives" by Hedvig Nordeng (Professor, Section for Pharmaceutics and Social Pharmacy)
13:15 – Mingling (and goodbye)
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