1992 …2024

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Personal profile

Biography

Toine Egberts (1965) obtained his PharmD in 1990 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Thereafter he was trained as a clinical pharmacist during four years in the hospitals of Tilburg and Delft. In 1994, he started his PhD project at the department of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology of Utrecht University in collaboration with the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Foundation 'Lareb'. This resulted in 1997 in a thesis entitled 'Pharmacoepidemiologic approaches to the evaluation of antidepressant drugs'. During his PhD-project he obtained the Master of Science degree in clinical epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences.

He was appointed in 2001 as professor of clinical pharmacoepidemiology at the department of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology. Since 2006 he is also a professor of clinical pharmacy at the medical faculty of Utrecht University. In these positions he tries to bridge the drug environment and the patient environment.

From 2006 - 2017 he was the chief pharmacist of the department of clinical pharmacy of the University Medical Center Utrecht.

Since november 2018 he is director of doctor education of the Graduate School of Life Sciences of the Utrecht University. The coaching of PhD students gives him energy as it nicely balances performing research into medical/pharmaceutical puzzles with the personal development of young academic professionals. He had the opportunity to guide over 65 PhD students towards the 'hora est'. He has always been deeply involved in education, especially the training of hospital pharmacists, for which he received in 2016 the 'Senior Jan Glerum Award'.

He is (co)author of approximately 500 international peer reviewed scientific publications and a reviewer for several scientific journals and international research funding organisations.

He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Drug Safety. He is member of several committees such as the CCMO and the Netherlands Expertcenter for Pharmacotherapy for older people (EPHOR.

His research activities focus on His research activities focus on a) the clinical pharmacology / clinical pharmacoepidemiology of drugs used in daily clinical practice, and b) on innovations in prescribing, monitoring and evaluation of medicines. In addition, he tries to promote sustainability in pharmacy ('green pharmacy').

He is married to Karin, has two daughters (Bibi and Louisa) and one son (Kilian) and in his spare time he likes to (trail)run, bootcamp, climb mountains and to play / listen to music.

Side activities

All mentioned activities are current:

  • professor of clinical pharmacy, department of pharmaceutical sciences Utrecht University
  • director of doctoral education Graduate School of Life Sciences Utrecht University
  • member Centrale Commissie Mensgebonden Onderzoek (CCMO)
  • advisor clinical pharmacology group Jeroen Bossch Ziekenhuizen
  • member advisory board Dutch Association Hospital Pharmacists NVZA
  • member advisory board Utrecht Centre for Affordable Biotherapeutics (UCAB)
  • member supervisory board SIR Institure for Pharmacy Practice and Policy
  • reviewer of project proposals for funding organizsations such as ZonMw
  • member of the editorial board of the journal Drug Safety
  • reviewer for several other biomedical journals
  • board member of the Netherlands Expertcenter for Pharmacotherapy for older people (EPHOR)

Fellowship & awards

Huizinga Penning (2004)

Senior Jan Glerum prijs (2016)

External positions

Bestuur stichting EPHOR - expertise farmacotherapie bij ouderen - EPHOR (expertisecentrum pharmacotherapie bij ouderen)

1 Jan 202031 Dec 3999

Director of Doctoral Education - Supervisor onderzoeks / PhD projecten - Graduate School of Life Sciences Utrecht University

1 Nov 201831 Oct 2025

lid van de wetenschappelijke adviesraad - - Utrecht Center for Affordable Therapeutics (UCAB)

1 Oct 201831 Dec 3999

beoordelen protocollen in kader wetenschappelijk onderzoek (zie www.ccmo.nl) - heb daarin zitting als ziekenhuisapotheker - Centrale Commissie Mensgebonden Onderzoek (CCMO)

1 May 20181 May 2026

Lid editorial board van het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Drug Safety - mijn professionele expertise als onderzoeker binnen het domein farmacovigilantie - Drug Safety (wetenschappelijk tijdschrift)

1 Jan 201331 Dec 3999

hoogleraar klinische farmacie - synergie met hoogleraarschap klinische farmacie UMCU - Universiteit Utrecht

1 Jan 201331 Dec 3999

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