Name:
Professor Thomas MacDonald MD FBPhS
Organisation:
University of Dundee
Year elected:
2005
Primary professional setting:
Clinical Academia
Tom MacDonald is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology in the Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, and Honorary Consultant Physician at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. His research interests are hypertension, cardiovascular disease, pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety and innovative trial designs. He is the immediate past president of the British Hypertension Society, a past president of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and the current director of the Tayside Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) which has access to the MEMO database and to the CPRD database. He is an elected member of the steering committee of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance.