Inese Sviestina

Seminar Title: 

Affiliation: 

University Children’s Hospital and Rīga Stradiņš University

Country: 

Latvia

1. Current Status, Position

Dr Inese Sviestina (MSc, Doctoral degree in Pharmacy) is currently:

  • Clinical pharmacist at University Children's Hospital
  • Chair of the Drug and Therapeutics Committe
  • Senior lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacy at Rīga Stradiņš University
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the EAHP

2. Education

Dr Sviestiņa graduated with a MSc from the Latvian Medical Academy in 2002. She completed an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy at Rīga Stradiņš University and graduated in 2008. She then completed a doctoral thesis on antibiotic usage in paediatric surgery at Rīga Stradiņš University. Dr Inese Sviestinais has also MA in music pedagogy (1999) and theory of culture (2001).

3. Research Area

Dr Sviestina has research interests focused on antibiotic stewardship programmes and strategies and antibiotic usage in surgery (both prophylaxis and treatment) mainly in paediatric patients. Furthermore, she is interested in pharmacoeconomy and medicines pricing.

4. Conflict of interest: none