Dr Davies

Dr Madhu Davies qualified in medicine in 1987. After training in general medicine and general practice, Madhu joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1993 where she has developed extensive experience in the clinical development of medicines and their risk/ benefit assessment. She has a keen interest in patient behaviours and the key factors influencing this.

Madhu has also edited a professional journal for over 12 years, and is editor or co-editor of several textbooks and published articles. In addition, Madhu is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK), holds the Chartered Scientist award, is an examiner for the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine (UK) and teaches regularly on drug safety and clinical development topics.

Dr van Dongen

Founding Editor - Drs Nadine van Dongen

Drs Nadine van Dongen is the Director of Van Dongen Research Ltd. She founded the company in November 2008 and introduced the concept of Patient Intelligence in the healthcare environment through running patient research studies.

She earned a masters degree in 2003 in International Business from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, specializing in marketing and strategy. From 2003 through 2008 she worked for Servier, a French pharmaceutical company specialized in cardiology, diabetes, venous disease, menopause, and depression.

In 2008 she moved to London to pursue a career in market research and worked for  the leading research fieldwork company. She recognized that, through targeted research, it was important to bridge and link the expectations and needs of patients and patient organizations with healthcare organizations to improve outcomes.

The pharmaceutical world is revolving around extending life expectancy and improving quality of life of patients. Having access to hundreds of thousands of people around the world and tens of thousands of people in the UK via Internet who are willing to participate in research on healthcare and specific indications, there is no limit to the issues that can be explored and the feedback that can be obtained. Working with consumer behavior models, this feedback can be utilized to ensure more effective development and deployment of resources. Her research interests have focused on awareness issues for diseases which are less understood by the general public, such as psoriasis and Crohn’s disease.

Furthermore, accuracy of information and validating common beliefs and assumptions play an important role in all her research activities.

On a personal note, she is originally Dutch and now in love with London. She is an enthusiastic organizer of (fundraising) events and loves traveling.