Schobben, Fred

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Affiliation: 

Utrecht University

Country: 

The Netherlands

1. Current Status, Position

  • Emeritus professor of Clinical Pharmacotherapy and head of management team of School of Pharmacy of Utrecht University,
  • Hospital pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist,
  • Member of the Dutch medicines Evaluation Board.

2. Education

School of pharmacy in Utrecht, PhD research in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Minneapolis followed by a training as hospital pharmacist in Utrecht. Teaching of medical and pharmacy students.

3. Research Area

Fred Schobben is mainly interested in pharmacological and clinical research in epilepsy. Also he is Involved in many areas of pharmacotherapy research as a hospital pharmacist and member of the Insitutional Review Board of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Recently he has focused his work research on antipsychotics in elderly, antidepressants in pregnacy and pharmaceutical aspects of drugs for children.