Fonzo-Christe, Caroline

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Geneva University Hospitals

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Switzerland

1. Current Status, Position

Dr Caroline Fonzo-Christe is currently a hospital and clinical pharmacist at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). She is the Head of the Drug Information Center of the Pharmacy. Half of her time is dedicated to the Pediatric Intensive Care and Neonatology Service where she works as a clinical pharmacist close to nurses and physicians.

2. Education

Dr Caroline Fonzo-Christe studied at the University of Basel and became licensed pharmacist in 1994. In 1995, she performed a Postgraduate Inservice Training in Clinical Pharmacy at the Pharmacy Department of the Central Institute of Hospitals within Valais Hospital in Sion. In 2000, she obtained a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Geneva University for her work about Pharmacovigilance in elderly hospitalised patients.

3. Research Area

Dr Fonzo-Christe's research projects are dedicated to the risks of parenteral drug administration in paediatric intensive care and neonatology, development of medication review tools and e-learning, paediatric parenteral nutrition and continuity of care. Her most recent publication is 'Younger age and in situ duration of peripheral intravenous catheters were risk factors for extravasation in a retrospective paediatric study' (Acta Paediatrica 2017).

4. Conflict of interest: none