Corresponding Member
Health Sciences: Dr. in Medicine and Surgery
Date of admittance: 22/05/2018
Admission Speech: Farmacología Pediátrica: pasado, presente y perspectivas de futuro
Reply: Dr. Pere Gascón Vilaplana
As an expert in this scientific field, she is a regular speaker and adviser in various international forums, a lecturer, a judicial expert, as well as a teacher in various courses and seminars. She also combines this work as a reviewer of various biomedical publications.
She is the author of more than seventy scientific publications among books and articles, both from the medical-pharmaceutical field and in the ethical and legal fields. Stresses the fact of being the author of the first manual on Clinical Trials with Medicines in Paediatrics published in Spain (2000). Recently, he has published the first treatise on Pediatric Pharmacology in the Spanish language (2018, in press) that has obtained the scientific endorsement of the Royal National Academy of Medicine.
It has been awarded with various prizes and distinctions; among others, the “Laguna Serrano” Prize of the Royal National Academy of Medicine (2014), first Finalist of the V Health Law Prize (2017), Gold Medal of the Royal National Academy of Medicine (2015), First Prize of the International Conference of Legal and Forensic Medicine (2016).
He develops his professional activity, apart from as a pediatric pharmacologist, as a primary care physician, a judicial expert and practicing lawyer, as well as independent consultancies for pharmaceutical companies.