Description
Speaker:
Dr. Charlotte Bekker, PhD
- Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacy, Radboudumc, Netherlands
Learning objectives
After the webinar, participants should be able to:
- Understand the environmental impacts of medications
- Have knowledge on the tripe bottom line framework and its application to evaluate sustainable pharmacy interventions
- Have knowledge about evidence-based interventions that promote sustainable medication use
- Understand how to implement sustainable interventions in clinical pharmacy
Description
Sustainable pharmacy practice is an urgent challenge due to the substantial environmental burden of medications. Yet, facing rising healthcare expenses and staff shortages, sustainability initiatives can only succeed if they are beneficial to people, planet and profit. This workshop will discuss several approaches to foster sustainable medication use, drawing from successful examples in the Netherlands.
Dr. Charlotte Bekker is a biomedical scientist and obtained her PhD at Utrecht University in 2018. Currently she works as an assistant professor at Radboudumc, department of Pharmacy. She is passionate to combat societal challenges and her research interest revolves around establishing sustainable medication use. For example, Charlotte investigates personalised dosing strategies for hematologic patients through shared decision making, and to redistribute anticancer drugs remaining unused by patients. Throughout these projects she uses both effectiveness and implementation science outcomes to speed up the translation process to standard care. In her work, Charlotte collaborates with many different stakeholders, and partners with patients to ensure patient needs are met.
