Faculty
Bianca Mulder, PharmD, MPharm, MSc
Pharmacovigilance Assessor, Medicines Evaluation Board, Netherlands
Bianca Mulder is a pharmacist with a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology. Her research focused on the use of medication during pregnancy and the development of atopic diseases in children. She worked briefly in a pharmacovigilance position at a pharmaceutical company before she started working as a pharmacovigilance assessor at the Dutch national agency (MEB) in 2016.
Jan Petracek, MD, MSc
CEO, iVigee Services a.s., Czech Republic
Physician and pharmacovigilance leader with more than 26 years of experience as a senior regulator, QPPV, auditor, trainer, and serial entrepreneur. Working in intelligent automation in PV for over 10 years, with the last 4 years dedicated to hands-on development and implementation of generative AI and AI agents in PV operations, including the validation of such systems and their defence before auditors and inspectors. Faculty member of DIA’s AI in PV training course and lecturer at the European Course in Pharmaceutical Medicine. Fellow of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance. Educated at Charles University in Prague, Imperial College London, with additional executive education in business and agentic AI from Harvard and MIT.
Sabine Straus, MD, PhD, MSc
, European Medicines Agency, Netherlands
Dr. Sabine Straus has been with the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) in the Netherlands since 1997, where she started as an Assessor Pharmacovigilance. Prior to working at the MEB she held different positions in the pharmaceutical industry, her last job as Medical Director at Searle Monsanto in the Netherlands. She was the Dutch member in the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) from 2012 till 2018 and acted as PRAC chair from July 2018 till July 2024. She also holds a position as associate professor at the Erasmus Medical Center, department of Medical Informatics in Rotterdam. Her main research focus is on additional risk minimisation, pregnancy prevention programs, biologicals, signal detection and signal management.
Wendy Huisman, PharmD
VP Quality and Patient Safety, Avanzanite Bioscience, Netherlands
Over the past 25 years Wendy has been dedicated to pharmacovigilance. She has broad experience as EU QPPV for generic and innovative products in complex companies. She also has wealth of experience in lobbying and networking in trade associations/working groups. In her current role, Wendy provides pharmacovigilance support to Pharmaceutical Industry and SMEs (startups). She enjoys setting up the PV system and supports in the development of the PSMF with associated documents. Since 2020 Wendy is a trained professional in Transactional Analysis (TA). TA is a theory of human personality and social behavior. TA gives a wealth of options to work with challenges and changes in organisational and personal development.
Fakhredin Sayed Tabatabaei, MD, PhD
Senior Assessor, MEB, Netherlands
Fakhredin Sayed Tabatabaei is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, working as Senior Assessor Pharmacovigilance at the Dutch national agency (MEB) for more than 17 years. He is also the chairman of the CMDh HaRP Project (Harmonization of Risk Management Plan). Fakhredin was an active member of the European Pioneer Group drafting the electronic product information (ePI) Key Principles that is published in 2020, and he is currently involved in the ePI Pilot Project in the Netherlands. Besides, he is the MEB representative in the Gravitate Health project, and the Network Subject Matter Expert in the Product Management Services (PMS) project.
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