1. Current Status, Position

Evelyne Van den Broucke is a third year PhD student in pharmaceutical sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium. Besides conducting research, she also graduated as a hospital pharmacist and is currently working in the Hospital Pharmacy of the University Hospitals Leuven where she performs regular tasks, such as dispensing, compounding and clinical pharmacy practices.

2. Education

She studied Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven and graduated as a pharmacist in 2018. Within her master's degree, she enjoyed a 6-month Erasmus exchange experience at the University College London School of Pharmacy. In 2018, she immediately followed with an inter-university master-after-master programme to become a hospital pharmacist and became licensed in 2021. Thereafter, Evelyne started a 4-year PhD course at the Catholic University of Leuven which she is aiming to finish in 2025.

3. Research Area

Throughout her education to become a hospital pharmacist, Evelyne has gained interest in the domain of clinical pharmacy practices. Therefore, her research includes different topics within the field of clinical pharmacy and focusses on optimising pharmacotherapy, with an emphasis on avoiding medication/prescription errors. Her PhD is being performed under the supervision of Prof. Isabel Spriet (the head of the Clinical Pharmacy Department at the University Hospitals Leuven). 

4. Conflict of interest

None