1. Current Status, Position

Since 2001, Dr Roberto Frontini (PhD) is Director of Pharmacy at the University Hospital of Leipzig, and since 2011 he is Qualified Person of the production Unit for Investigational Medicinal Products of the same pharmacy.

Also, since 2004 Dr Frontini is holding the lecture on Pharmacoepidemiology and Economics at the University of Leipzig, school of Pharmacy.

2. Education

Dr. Frontini studied Pharmacy at the University of Hamburg from 1988 to 1992 and was post graduate student in pharmaceutical technology at the same University till 1992. In 1993 he obtained the PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked at the hospital of the University of Lübeck until 1995. In 1996 he obtained specialisation degree in Hospital Pharmacy and became in 1996 head of the Pharmacy of the St.Franziskus-Hospital in Cologne. 

Dr Roberto Frontini also was trainer for pharmaceutical technology at the Chamber of Pharmacy Hannover from 1994 to 2005.

In 2005 he was elected Director of Finances of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and from 2009 to 2015 he was its president.

3. Research Area

Dr Roberto Frontini’ s special fields of interest are pharmacoepidemiology and patient safety. He was the author and co-author of numerous publications, and in 2014 he was nominated director of the new Centre for Patient Safety at the University Hospital of Leipzig.

4. Conflict of interest: none