Professor Patricia McGettigan
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Education (HCC)
Centre: Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine
Email: p.mcgettigan@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 7128
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ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9757-9754
Patricia McGettigan is a Clinical Pharmacologist and Consultant Physician at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Barts Health NHS Trust. She graduated in pharmacy and in medicine from the University of Dublin, Trinity College and trained in Clinical Pharmacology at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She is head of MBBS clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and prescribing teaching at QMUL and co-leads final year Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs teaching in QMUL’s BSc in Pharmacology and Innovative Therapeutics.
She is Deputy Chair of the Medical Schools Council’s national Prescribing Safety Assessment Standard Setting Group and an External Examiner for pharmacology at University College Cork, Ireland. In her clinical role, based at Barts Health Royal London Hospital, she cares for cardiology in-patients and provides specialist HIV-cardiovascular risk management for out-patients.
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the British Pharmacological Society and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Active in both national and European medicines regulation, she is a Member of the UK’s Commission on Human Medicines Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group and is appointed by the European Commission to the Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Committee of the European Medicines Agency.