Ilse Truter

Prof Ilse Truter

Email: ilse.truter@mandela.ac.za

Tel: 041 504 2131

Ilse Truter is a Distinguished Professor at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.  She is a staff member of the Department of Pharmacy and leader of the Drug Utilization Research Unit (DURU) at NMU.  She is since July 2020 the Director of the School of Clinical Care and Medicinal Sciences in the Faculty of Health Sciences at NMU.  Ilse holds two doctorates (in Pharmacy and Business Management), and is a registered pharmacist.  She has successfully completed the international accredited Travel Medicine Course, and is a member of the WHO International Working Group for Drug Statistics Methodology since 2017.  Ilse has authored 132 peer-reviewed research articles, three chapters in books, and 163 articles in local/professional journals.  She is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C2-rated researcher.  Her research field is pharmacoepidemiology (including drug utilisation research and pharmacoeconomics), pharmacy practice and clinical pharmacy. 

Ilse is an elected member of the South African Pharmacy Council, a member of Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, and a council member of the South African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE).  Ilse is also a fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and a member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).  She is a founding member of the Medicines Utilisation Research in Africa (MURIA) group, and one of the regional leads for the ISPE African Regional Interest Group (AfRiG).  Ilse has supervised 24 masters’ degrees and 12 doctoral studies.  She is a registered Assessor, Evaluator for the Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the SAPC, and reviewer for the NRF.  She has conducted training on drug utilisation research methodology, including the ATC/DDD System, in several African countries, serves as moderator and external examiner for local and international universities, and serves on the international editorial board of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice and as Associate Editor (Asia-Africa-Middle East Region) of the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 

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