Associate Professor in Pharmacology
Université Toulouse III
Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
Christine Damase-Michel is Associate Professor in Pharmacology in Toulouse School of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacologist in Toulouse University Hospital. She has a research activity in pharmacoepidemiology in the INSERM research Unit CERPOP. She is PharmD and obtained a PhD in experimental Pharmacology. She further specialized in “Specialized Pharmacology” including pharmacokinetics and pharmacoepidemiology, also got certificates in Pathology, Biochemistry, molecular Biology, medical Statistics and Informatics and then began to work in Pharmacoepidemiology. She teaches Pharmacology to medical students and midwives and is head of the Unit “Medications, Reproduction, Pregnancy and Breastfeeding” that gives advice to health professionals on the risk of medications on fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding in the University Hospital department of Clinical Pharmacology. She manages a research team working on reproductive risks of drugs in the INSERM research Unit CERPOP (SPHERE team). She has created the database EFEMERIS (www.efemeris.fr ), which records data concerning pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes and children follow-ups in Haute-Garonne. The research team has also set up POMME (PrescriptiOns Médicaments Mères Enfants), a database of children in utero exposed to medications and followed up during their childhood. Both of these databases are updated yearly. She belongs to the coordinating team of the French network REGARDs which includes the main institutions working on medications and pregnancy in France (Registries, Pharmacovigilance centers…), to the network of European Congenital anomaly registries EUROmediCAT (www.euromedicat.eu ) and is involved as a demonstration project leader as well a data access provider for EFEMERIS and POMME in the European project ConcePTION (www.imi-conception.eu ).
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