The Drug Information Research Center  was established in Romania in 2004 at the “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca as a regional drug information service for healthcare professionals. The service includes answering the physicians and pharmacists queries, review of the literature and information retrieval and dissemination, tracking and evaluating adverse drug reactions and interactions in clinical practice through the means of an online voluntary reporting tool for healthcare professionals and for consumers. The center publishes 4 times per year a Pharmacovigilance Bulletin.

The main research activities are in the field of pharmacovigilance: detection, evaluation and characterization of adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions and other drug-related problems in outpatients and inpatients. We maintain databases with the identified and evaluated cases.

The center is involved in educational activities and developed several educational programs in the context of specific public health related problems, educational programs regarding the importance of pharmacovigilance and of voluntary adverse drug reactions reporting.

The center is staffed by two research pharmacists. Academic staff and pharmacy students are regularly involved in several of the center’s activities on a voluntary basis.

Researcher Coordinator
CS II Dr. Farcaș-Călugăr Andreea   
E-mail: afarcas@umfcluj.ro
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-8409
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Researcher
CS III Dr. Bucșa Camelia
E-mail: cameliadenisabucsa@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9068-7293
Brainmap: https://www.brainmap.ro/camelia-denisa-bucsa

CONTACT
Address: Pasteur Street 6A, 400349, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Telephone: +40 374 834836
E-mail: cim@umfcluj.ro