Lisa Bero

Lisa Anne Bero
photo of Lisa Bero
Lisa Bero at the 21st Annual Cochrane Colloquium, Quebec, September 2013
Born
Lisa Anne Bero

(1958-08-04) 4 August 1958 (age 66)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Alma mater
Known for
  • Research and policy on industry influence on research
  • Studying research integrity
  • WHO essential medicines
  • Cochrane Collaboration
  • The Cigarette Papers (1996)
Scientific career
Fields
  • Translating research into health policy
  • Research integrity
  • Essential medicines
Institutions
Thesis The interaction of opioid and serotonergic systems regulation prolactin secretion in the developing rat  (1987)

Lisa Anne Bero, born 1958, is an academic who originally trained in pharmacology and went on to a career studying research integrity and how clinical and basic sciences are translated into clinical practice and health policy.[1][2] Bero is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health and the Chief Scientist of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.[3] Previously, she had been Chair of Medicines Use and Health Outcomes at the University of Sydney.[4] From 1991 until 2014, she was Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (School of Pharmacy) and in the Institute of Health Policy Studies (School of Medicine) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is currently an adjunct professor there.[5] She is also Chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines Committee,[6] Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Research and Science Policy,[7] and was Co-Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration from 2013 to 2017.[3] Bero has received multiple awards for her extensive mentoring of high school students to junior faculty.[8]

  1. ^ Holmes, D (19 May 2012). "Lisa Bero: Taking the path of most resistance". Lancet. 379 (9829): 1869. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60797-1. PMID 22608326. S2CID 205966183.
  2. ^ Lo, Bernard; Field, Marilyn J.; Committee on Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice, Board on Health Sciences (2009). Conflict of interest in medical research, education, and practice. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-13188-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b "Lisa Bero, PhD". www.cuanschutz.edu. University of Colorado. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  4. ^ Faculty of Pharmacy. "Professor Lisa Bero". University of Sydney. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  5. ^ Department of Clinical Pharmacy. "Faculty & Staff". University of California San Francisco. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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