Patrice Verpillat
Dr. Patrice Verpillat, MD, MPH, PhD, is the Head of the Real World Evidence (RWE) Workstream at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). He is a medical doctor, specialist in epidemiology. Before joining the EMA, he worked for 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry where he had positions in several international companies, always dealing with real-world data (RWD) and non-interventional studies (NIS) in order to bring RWE into research, access and life-cycle product management. Dr. Verpillat has published over 70 articles in Medline referenced journals. He has been involved in many organisations such as ENCePP, ICH M14 working group, European pharma association (efpia) and ISPE.