Dr. Catherine Duclos
Dr Catherine Duclos, PharmD, PhD, is a professor of medical informatics at Sorbonne Paris NordUniversity, member of LIMICS and is in charge of the medical information management and the clinical data warehouse coordination of the University Hospitals “Paris Seine Saint Denis” (Great Paris University Hospital (GPUH)). Key topics include medical and pharmaceutical knowledge representation, and medical decision systems. She conducted numerous studies published in international journals on modeling drug knowledge (indications, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics of antibiotics, adverse effects) and their ontological formalization. She coordinated several national scientific projects (ANR, ANSM) and participated in several national or European projects related to drug safety, drug identification, therapeutic decision. She is at the origin with A. Venot and JB Lamy of the iconic language VCM that graphically expresses medical concepts and is used by software editors to summarize electronic health records, to graphically index medical content, to ease data entry. She is expert about drug databases and drug representation for Health Authorities.
