Professor Aagaard

Editor-in-Chief: Lise Aagaard

Dr. Aagaard is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen in the section for Social Pharmacy. Dr. Aagaard is the team leader for the scientific group working with different aspects of medicine use and health policy.

She graduated as a pharmacist (Msc pharm) in 2001, and in 2005 she received her Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with specialization in Organization and Management. In 2008 she earned her PhD degree for analyses of how knowledge about adverse drug reactions can be improved. The PhD project was a joint collaboration between the Danish Medicines Agency and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The conclusions in the thesis have led to several structural and procedural changes in the Danish pharmacovigilance system.

From 2001 to 2003 she was involved with construction and development of a national evidence based drug-drug interactions database, and from 2004 to 2008 she was employed as a pharmacovigilance officer at the Danish Medicines Agency. During the period in the Danish Medicines she also attended monthly meetings in the European Medicines Agency representing Denmark in the Pharmacovigilance Working Party.

Dr. Aagaards research is focused on medicines safety and policy, medicines use and pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacogenomics, regulatory affairs. A special focus area is medicines safety in children and adolescents; and several studies have been published on this topic.  

Besides her scientific research she is also course leader for the course Social Pharmacy, Scientific Dissemination and Method, and supervises various PhD and masters students.   

Lise Aagaard has served as a member of advisory boards for journals as well as in national and international evaluation committees. She has been chairman of the board, the Danish Pharmaceutical Society and in 2010 she became a member of the Rotary Falconer Club, Frederiksberg, Denmark.