Prof. Dr. Birgit CP Koch

Birgit CP Koch is Hospital Pharmacist-Clinical Pharmacologist and Full Professor of Clinical Pharmacometrics, working at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. She supervises the education program for residents in Clinical Pharmacology.

Nowadays, she is member of the executive board of EPASG, the PK/PD group of ESCMID, council member of IATDMCT, member the pharmacology committee of UEMS, the specialist registration committee for hospital pharmacists and clinical pharmacologists in the Netherlands, member of ISAP, ASCPT, EACPT, the SWAB committee, the medical ethical board, the editorial board of therapeutic drug monitoring, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacokinetics. She is member of the alternative sampling and infections committees of IATDMCT and NWO VIDI member. She is chair of the Young Investigator Grant Committee and chair of the expert team Knowledge security of Erasmus MC.

She authored > 230 publications on PK/PD, TDM and toxicology and she is the PI of several studies on model-based dosing, TDM and PK in antibiotics and psychoactive drugs, with funding > 2000 K.  Her research focuses on alternative matrices, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in special populations and toxicology during pregnancy. At the moment, she supervises 21 PhD students (and 9 finished).