1. Current Status, Position

Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Pharmacy.

2. Education

Katja Taxis is professor of pharmacotherapy and clinical pharmacy at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. She obtained a degree in pharmacy from University of Hamburg, Germany and continued her postgraduate studies at The School of Pharmacy, University of London, with an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy and a PhD about medication safety. She worked as researcher/lecturer at the University of Tubingen, Germany before joining the University of Groningen in 2004. 

3. Research Area

Her research focuses on (global) medication safety and drug utilization in hospitals with projects in the Netherlands, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Nigeria. She is also involved in studies in the field of psychiatry and older persons, especially nursing home patients.

Conflict of interest: None