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Class of 2026

Efe Eworuke

Keiko Asao
IQVIA Solutions Japan KK
Tokyo, Japan
Serving first 3-year term
Industry/Service Provider (Asia/Pacific)

Jessica Franklin

Marianne Cunnington
Analysis Group Inc.
London, UK
Serving first 3-year term
Industry/Service Provider (Europe/Africa)

Carol Koro

Carol Koro, FISPE
VP, Head of Vaccines Epidemiology
GSK
Pennsylvania, USA
One Year Serving Term
At Large

Mette Nørgaard
Professor in Epidemiology of Urinary Tract Diseases, Department of Clinical Epidemiology
Aarhus University
Denmark
Serving second 3-year term
Academic (Europe/Africa)

Elisabetta Patorno, FISPE‎
BWH Div of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Serving first 3-year term
Academic (Americas)

Jeremy Rassen, FISPE
Co-Founder, President and Chief Science Officer
Aetion, Inc.
New York, NY
Serving second 3-year term
Industry/Service Provider (Americas)

Maribel Salas, FISPE
Exec Dir, Clinical Safety & Epidemiology
B-Inc
Pennsylvania, USA
One Year Serving Term
At Large

Class of 2027

Yoshiaki Uyama

Yoshiaki Uyama
Director, Office of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA)
Tokyo, Japan
Serving first 3-year term
Government/Regulator (Asia/Pacific)

Daniel Prieto-Alhambra

Juan Hincapie-Castillo, FISPE
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Serving first 3-year term
Academic (Americas)

Christopher Rentsch

Christopher Rentsch, FISPE
Associate Professor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
Serving first 3-year term
Academic (Europe/Africa)

Class of 2028

Edward Lai

Edward Lai, FISPE
Founder/Director of Population Health Data Center
Population Health Data Center, NCKU
Tainan City, Taiwan
Serving First 3 Year Term
Academic (Asia/Pacific)

Grammati Sarri

Grammati Sarri
Vice President of Innovative Statistics at the Evidence, Value and Access Business Unit
Cytel
London, England
United Kingdom
Serving First 3 Year Term
Industry/Service Provider (Europe)

Heather Danysh

Heather Danysh
Director of Regulatory RWE/Epidemiology
RTI Health Solutions
Massachusetts, United States
Serving First 3 Year Term
industry/Service Provider (North Americas)

Sylvia Opanga

Sylvia Opanga
Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacoepidemiology
University of Nairobi
Nairobi County, Kenya
Serving First 3 Year Term
Africa

Luciane Lopes

Luciane Lopes
Consultant of WHO, Anvisa and Ministry of Health in Brazil. Professor in Pharmaceutical Science Graduate Course University of Brasilia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Serving First 3 Year Term
Latin Americas

Lifetime Emeritus

Stanley A. Edlavitch

Stanley A. Edlavitch, FISPE
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Kansas City, USA

ISPE Strategic Liaisons

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Lourens Bloem
  • Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS): Stella Blackburn, FISPE
  • Drug Information Assn (DIA): Alicia Gilsen, FISPE
  • Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy: Nelson Price
  • European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP): Arnold Chan, FISPE
  • Get Real Institute: Susan Oliveria, FISPE
  • International Network for Epidemiology in Policy (INEP): Priya Bahri
  • International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR): Shirley Wang, FISPE
  • International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISoP): Deborah Layton, FISPE