The common goal of the activities in the clinical pharmacology department is to promote the effective, safe and efficient use of medicinal products. Another goal is to promote the generation of new knowledge through research with medicinal products to high ethical and methodological standards that are scientifically relevant and clinically applicable.
The main references of the Clinical pharmacology department are the drug regulation agencies, such as the Spanish Agency for Medicine and Health Products (AEMPs) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
It also permanently interacts with the levels of authority that have responsibilities in the medicine selection and information policy: ICS and CatSalut.
With regard to research and education, the department works closely with nearby institutions, such as IDIBELL or the University of Barcelona, as well as with national and international research support networks, such as ECRIN and ENCEPP.
The department also has close ties with the Spanish Clinical Pharmacology Society.
The department aims to meet these goals through functions and activities in the following areas of action: medicine selection and policy; information on medicines and therapies; safety in the use of medicines; support for research; activities in the Clinical Research Ethics Committee (CREC); in-house research; degree education; post-graduate education and ongoing training.
- The activities take place in the heart of the hospital’s clinical commissions, especially the Pharmacotherapy Commission. Priority is given to added-value analysis methods for new medicines. The goals are for the hospital to have the best medicines, selected using criteria of efficacy, toxicity, convenience and cost. They must also be used optimally to ensure the utmost effectiveness and efficiency, while minimising risks to patients.
- The main activities include providing the hospital’s healthcare professionals with a medicine and therapy information system in order to respond to their individual consultations. It also provides them with up-to-date information with the most appropriate formats, all using new information technologies.
- The main activities include the development of the HUB pharmacovigilance programme and the distribution of information on safety issues on the use of medicines in the hospital. The goals are to obtain useful information to continuously gauge the problem of adverse reactions produced by medicines in the hospital and its impact. As well as this, to pose measures to ensure a safer use of medicines.
The activities consist of providing support for the designing, planning and implementation of the research projects of HUB researchers, primarily clinical research projects with medicinal products or other therapy strategies. Researcher assistance is based on providing methodological and regulatory advice and support in the implementation of the projects, primarily clinical trials.
Activities are conducted to support the responsibilities of the principal investigators of the clinical trials at the hospital. Support is also given to researchers exercising their responsibilities when they are sponsors of the clinical trials. This activity takes place through the UICEC IDIBELL, which forms part of the Screen Platform of the Carlos III Health Institute.
- The activities consist of the methodological, ethical and legal assessment of the research projects, primarily the clinical trial protocols involving medicinal products and clinical research involving medical products that are submitted to the HUB CREC. It also monitors the research projects and carries out the work involved in managing the CREC.
Lines of research
- Pharmacoepidemiology. Neuropharmacology and pain.
Main Publications
- Linares-Gil MJ, Valls J, Hereu P, Nebot J, De-Ramón B, Díaz-Munió E. et al.Topical analgesia with lidocaine plus diclofenac decreases pain in benign anorectal surgery: randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 2018. doi : 10.1038/s41424-018-0075-7.
- Bosch M, Llop R. El último año de... Farmacoterapéutica. Actualización en Medicina de Familia 2018; 14: 487-96.
- Pedrós C, Formiga F, Corbella X, Arnau JM. Adverse drug reactions leading to urgent hospital admission in an elderly population: prevalence and main features. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2016; 72: 219-26. doi: 10.1007/s00228-015-1974-0.
- Vela S, Videla S, Piñol M, Ornelas A, Revollo B, Clotet B, et al. Effectiveness of physically ablative (electrosurgery excision, infrared coagulation) and pharmacological treatments (imiquimod) for anal canal condylomata in HIV-infected men. PLOS ONE. 2018;13:e0199033. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199033. eCollection 2018.
- Fortea J, Carmona-Iragui M, Benejam B, Fernández S, Videla L, Barroeta I, et al. Plasma and CSF biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down syndrome: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Neurol. 2018. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30285-0. [Epub ahead of print]
Degree education
- Associate Medical Professor: Pilar Hereu Boher. General Pharmacology (3rd). Clinical Pharmacology (6th). Pathology and Experimental Therapy Department. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Barcelona. Bellvitge Campus.
- Associate Medical Professor: Dolores Rodriguez Cumplido. General Pharmacology (3rd). Clinical Pharmacology (6th). Pharmacology, Therapy and Toxicology Department. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Vall d’Hebron Teaching Unit.
- Associate professor: Sebastià Videla Cés. Experimental and Health Science Department. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Pompeu Fabra University
Master's degrees amd accredited courses
- Eu2P Master in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology. Medicines and Public health. Drug utilization studies. Quantitative and qualitative methos. Impact on public healt of adverse drug reactions.
- Official Master’s degree in Advanced Medical Skills. Course on Advanced knowledge of motor neuron diseases. University of Barcelona.
- Master’s degree in the Scientific Departments of the Pharmaceutical Industry. ESAME Foundation and University of Barcelona.
- Official Master’s degree in Research and Rational Use of Medicine. University of Valencia.
- Master’s degree in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology. Pompeu Fabra University.
- Course on Clinical trials and Standards of Good clinical practice. Clinical Pharmacology Department. University Hospital of Bellvitge. Accredited with 1.2 credits by the Catalan Council of Ongoing Training for Healthcare Professionals.
- Course on Critical Reading in Clinical Research. Neurology Department. University Hospital of Bellvitge.
- Course on Reasoned Selection of Medicine (2nd edition) based on the Primary Care Therapy Guide. SEMFyC. Accredited with 1.9 credits by CCFCPS-CFC.
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