Beate Aurich, MD

Project Leader Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology, Saint-Louis Hospital,
Paris, France

Following her training as a general paediatrician (MRCPCH London), Beate Aurich specialised in drug safety and pharmacovigilance and holds a doctorate in Pharmacoepidemiology (University of Portsmouth, UK). She has currently eight years of pharmacovigilance experience in pharmaceutical industry and nine years in academic drug safety research.

She is a project leader in paediatric clinical pharmacology at Saint-Louis hospital in Paris and also works as a consultant in pharmacovigilance and drug safety with a particular focus on paediatric pharmacovigilance. Her role includes collaboration with the PedCRIN project, “Conect for children” (c4c) and EPTRI where she provides general advice on paediatric research developing points to consider documents as well as training modules on paediatric pharmacovigilance.

She is in particular interested in questions about the benefit-risk balance of treatments, the right to access efficacious, safety and good quality medicines and medical ethics which have been partly influenced by her medical studies in post-war West-Germany and her voluntary year as a paediatrician in Guatemala.