Prof. Dr. Alice Panchaud graduated from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 1999 and completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Nutrition (2000-2005) at the Department of Pediatrics at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). She then became head pharmacist of the Swiss Teratogen Information Service (STIS) (2006-2012) in Lausanne and spent six months at the Motherisk program in Toronto (2008) for clinical and research training. In 2012, she joined the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva and UNIL as a research associate. Pharmacoepidemiology being the cornerstone of her research field, she performed a two-year research fellowship in the pharmacoepidemiology program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, where she has been working with large administrative databases and registry data (2015-2017). In 2018, she passed her habilitation (privat docent, PD) at UNIL where she works as a clinical pharmacist in obstetrics. She was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the University of Bern (UNIBe) for primary care pharmacy in 2020 where she co-leads the interprofessional medicine-pharmacy unit at the Bernese Institute of Primary Care (BIHAM). Her research interests focused on the safety and effectiveness of drugs in real-life settings, with a special interest in special populations and the development of digital tools to support healthcare professionals and patients in their use of medicines.