Gianluca Trifirò is an MD, with a post-graduate degree in Clinical Pharmacology and PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology. He currently works as Full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Verona.

He is scientific coordinator of a Master program on “Use of Real world data for evaluations in Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics” at University of Verona and he is the scientific coordinator of the Italian Society of Pharmacology working group on pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance.

He has been fully involved in ISPE (co-chair of mid-year meetings in Florence in 2011 and Rome in 2019, former BIOSIG chair) since around 20 years. He is member of the steering group of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance and of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) of European Medicine Agency.

He is Field Chief Editor in Frontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation. Authors of more than 230 publications on international scientific peer-reviewed journal.