Assistant Professor Gianluca Trifirò, MD, PhD

Member of International Advisory Board, GaBI Journal

Clinical Pharmacologist and Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Italy
Honorary Assistant Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
External Consultant of the Scientific Secretariat, Pharamcovigilance Office, Italian Medicines Agency (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, AIFA)

Gianluca Trifiró is an MD, PhD working as Clinical Pharmacologist and Assistant Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology at both University of Messina (Italy) with honorary position at the Erasmus University Medical Center (The Netherlands). In the last years, he was involved in the scientific coordination of sev¬eral international projects evaluating drug use and safety in real life using multiple European healthcare databases. Currently, he is coordinating an Italian Health Minister-funded project assess¬ing post-marketing benefit–risk profile of biosimilars in Italy through distributed database network.

He is a member of the Sicilian Regional Drug Formulary Committee on Biosimilar Use and an External Consultant of the Scientific Secretariat of the Pharmacovigilance Office at the Italian Medicines Agency (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, AIFA). He is also a member of the Steering Group of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) at the European Medicines Agency. He is Co-Chair of the Biologics and Biosimilar Special Interest Group of International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology.

Assistant Professor Trifiró is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals including Drug Safety and Pharmacoepidemiology, and author of more than 145 scientific peer-reviewed publications in international journals, four books and a large number of scientific articles for Italian medical magazines.