International Register of

Drug Information
Services
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of
Australia

August 2016

Please contact SHPA to update the details

for your drug information service.

Email: shpa@shpa.org.au

The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia

PO Box 1774 Collingwood Victoria 3066 Australia 03 9486 0177
http://shpa.org.au - shpa@shpa.org.au ABN: 54 004 553 806
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Contents
Argentina ................................................ 3
Australia .................................................. 3
Austria .................................................... 3
Brazil ....................................................... 3
Canada ................................................... 4
China ...................................................... 4
Czech Republic ....................................... 4
Egypt ...................................................... 5
Eritrea ..................................................... 5
Ethiopia ................................................... 5
Finland .................................................... 5
France .................................................... 6
Germany ................................................. 6
Ghana ..................................................... 7
Greece .................................................... 7
India ........................................................ 8
Indonesia .............................................. 13
Iran ....................................................... 13
Ireland ................................................... 13
Israel ..................................................... 13
Italy ....................................................... 14
Japan .................................................... 14
Kenya ................................................... 14
Kyrgystan .............................................. 15
Lebanon ................................................ 15
Lithuania ............................................... 15
Malaysia................................................ 16
Moldova ................................................ 16
Nepal .................................................... 16
Netherlands .......................................... 17
New Zealand ......................................... 17
Norway ................................................. 18
Oman .................................................... 18
Pakistan ................................................ 19
Peru ...................................................... 19
The Philippines ..................................... 19
Portugal ................................................ 20
Russia ................................................... 20
Saudi Arabia ......................................... 20
Singapore ............................................. 21
Slovak Republic .................................... 21
South Africa .......................................... 22
Spain .................................................... 22
Sri Lanka............................................... 23
Sweden ................................................. 23
Switzerland ........................................... 24
Thailand ................................................ 24
United Kingdom .................................... 25
United States of America ...................... 25
Vietnam................................................. 25
Zimbabwe ............................................. 26

The SHPA International Register of Drug Information Services facilitates communication

between drug information practitioners. Participants undertake to assist each other with
simple enquiries about medications in their respective countries or regions. These enquiries
usually involve identification and sourcing of marketed pharmaceuticals.
Contact Leone Snowden, Drug Information Pharmacist, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, for
information regarding the register.

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Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien

Argentina - Universittskliniken
Centro de Informacin de A-1090 Wien, Whringer Grtel 18-20
Medicamentos Farmacutico
AUSTRIA
(CIMF), La Plata
Telephone: + 43 1 40400 1538 (or 1539)
Colegio de Farmacuticos de la Prov. de
Buenos Aires Facsimile: + 43 1 40400 1549
Calle 5 n 966 Email: petra.gludovatz@akh-wien.ac.at
(1900) La Plata Mag. Pharm: Ms Petra Gludovatz
Buenos Aires Hospital pharmacy based drug information
service.
ARGENTINA
Last update: January 2002
Telephone: + 54 21 290 900
Facsimile: + 54 21 224 894 Brazil
Email: cimf@colfarma.org.ar
Centro Brasileiro de Informao
Director: Daniel Domosbian sobre Medicamentos (CEBRIM),
Regional drug information centre for Braslia
Buenos Aires Conselho Federal de Farmcia (Federal
Last update: January 1999 Council of Pharmacy)
Centro Brasileiro de Informao sobre
Australia Medicamentos
Austin Health, Melbourne (Brazilian Drug Information Centre)
Pharmacy - Drug Information SBS Q. 1 Bl. K Ed. Seguradoras - 8
andar
Austin Hospital
70093-900 Braslia DF
145 Studley Road
BRAZIL
Heidelberg VIC 3084
Telephone: + 55 61 321 0555
AUSTRALIA
Facsimile: + 55 61 321 0819
Telephone: + 61 3 9496 5668
Email: cebrim@cff.org.br
Facsimile: + 61 3 9459 4546
Email: vidotti@cff.org.br
Email: druginfo@austin.org.au
Web: www.cff.org.br/cebrim
Drug Information Pharmacist: Jane Booth
Pharmacist, MSc: Carlos Cezar Flores
Last update: September 2013 Vidotti
We are a member of the 'Sistema
Austria Brasileiro de Informao sobre
Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Medicamentos - SISMED' (Brazilian Drug
Wein - Universittskliniken, Vienna Information System). SISMED has 21
centers throughout Brazil; see website for
Anstaltsapotheke contact details.

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Last update: January 2005
Canada
British Columbia Drug & Poison
Information Centre, Vancouver
BC Drug and Poison Information Centre
1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver
British Columbia V6Z 1Y6
CANADA
Telephone: + 1 604 682 2344 x 62126
Facsimile: + 1 604 806 8262
Email: webb@dpic.ca
Program Supervisor, Drug Information: Ms
Janet Webb
Regional drug information centre for
British Columbia, Canada. Regional
poison control centre for British Columbia.
Regional ADR reporting centre.
Last update: January 2005
Ontario Pharmacists' Association
Drug Information and Research
Centre, Toronto
Drug Information and Research Centre
Ontario Pharmacists' Association
23 Lesmill Road, Suite 301
Don Mills ON M3B 3P6
CANADA
Telephone: + 1 416 385 2444
Facsimile: + 1 416 385 2442
Email: dirc@ontpharmacists.on.ca
Web: www.dirc.ca
Director: Scott Gavura
Drug information service providing
subscription/contracted services: drug
information call centre access to health
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
care professionals and the public, medical
writing, teaching/educational programs
and research projects relating to drug
information and pharmacy practice.
Receiving over 70,000 requests annually,
DIRC is one of the busiest DICs in the
world.
Last update: January 2005
China
Chief Pharmacist's Office, Hong Kong
Drug Information Centre
Chief Pharmacist's Office
10/F, Multicentre, Block A
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern
Hospital
3 Lok Man Road, Chai Wan
Hong Kong
CHINA
Telephone: + 852 2515 2531
Facsimile: + 852 2515 2413
Email: pkylee@ha.org.hk
Director: Dr Petty Lee
Central drug information centre for
Hospital Authority of Hong Kong.
Last update: August 2006
Czech Republic
Charles University (Prague), Hradec
Krlov
Lekove Informacni Centrum, Charles
University
Katedra socialni a klinicke farmacie
Farmaceutick fakulta UK
Heyrovskho 1203, Hradec Krlov 50005
CZECH REPUBLIC
Telephone: + 420 49 506 7321
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Facsimile: + 420 49 551 2266 ERITREA

Email: jiri.vlcek@faf.cuni.cz Telephone: + 291 1 12 2429
Web: www.faf.cuni.cz/lic/sluzby.asp Facsimile: + 291 1 12 2899
Director: Jir Vlcek Email: embayea@moh.gov.er
Other Czech drug information Drug Information Pharmacist: Mr Embaye
centres: Andom
Statni ustav pro kontrolu leciv, Informacni Last update: March 2004
centrum o lecich, Srobarova 48, Praha 10,
10041 (svi@sukl.cz) Ethiopia
Informacni centrum, nemocnicni lekarna, Drug Administration and Control Authority,
Fakultni nemocnice u sv. Anny, Pekarska Addis Ababa
54, 65691.
Drug Information Center
Last update: February 2009
Drug Administration and Control Authority
Egypt P.O. Box 5681

Kasr Al-Ainy Drug Information Addis Ababa

Center (KDIC), Cairo ETHIOPIA
Cairo University Hospital Telephone: + 251 1 524122
Kasr Alainy Street Facsimile: + 251 1 521392
Cairo Email: daca@telecom.net.et
EGYPT Information Pharmacist: Mengistu
Telephone: + 20 2 23687397 Tadesse

Email: kdic@kasralainy.edu.eg Last update: February 2005

Pharmacist: Rania Ramzi

Finland
KDIC was established in 2009. The
service is provided for health professionals Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio
in Cairo University hospitals and other Pharmacy
hospitals in Egypt.
Kuopio University Hospital
Last update: October 2012
PL 1777
Eritrea 70211 Kuopio

National Pharmaceutical FINLAND

Information Unit, Asmara Telephone: + 358 17 173 502
National Pharmaceutical Information Unit Facsimile: + 358 17 173 507
Department of Regulatory Services Email: raimo.ojala@kuh.fi
Ministry of Health Director: Mr Raimo Ojala
PO Box 212, Asmara Last update: January 2005

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France
Centre Rgional d'Information sur le
Mdicament (CRIM), Rennes
Centre Rgional d'Information sur le
Mdicament (CRIM)
Pharmacien CHU Htel-Dieu
35064 RENNES cedex
FRANCE
Telephone: + 33 299 873 407
Facsimile: + 33 299 873 408
Email: crim@chu-rennes.fr
Email: michel.le.duff@chu-rennes.fr
Web: www.chu-
rennes.fr/sections/professionnels_de_sa/c
rim
Director: Michel Le Duff
CRIM assists hospital and community
health professionnals, mainly from
western France: Brittany, Normandy and
the west-Loire valley. It offers a medical
library, formulary and P&T committee
support, Q/A service and the Bulletin
d'Information du Mdicament et de
Pharmacovigilance, published every two
months (ISDB full member). It has been
providing academic detailing for GPs
throughout the region since November
2003.
Last update: July 2007
Unit Fonctionnelle d'Information
Pharmacothrapeutique et
Pharmacovigilance (UF IPTV), Paris
UF Information Pharmacothrapeutique et
Pharmacovigilance
Agence Gnrale des Equipements et
Produits de Sant des Hpitaux de Paris
(AGEPS)
Pharmacie Centrale Assistance Publique
Hpitaux de Paris
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
7, rue du Fer Moulin - BP 09
75221 Paris cedex 05
FRANCE
Telephone: + 33 1 4669 1212/1445/1444
Facsimile: + 33 1 4336 9297
Email: questions-reponses.simp@eps.ap-
hop-paris.fr
Assistant Director: Bernard Sarrut
SIMP serves 50 hospitals in the Paris
region and consists of a drug information
centre, a formulary service and a drug
utilisation service.
Assistant Director: Bernard Sarrut -
bernard.sarrut@eps.ap-hop-paris.fr
Director: Agnese Brouard, Email -
agnes.brouard@eps.ap-hop-paris.fr
Germany
ABDA - Federal Union of German
Associations of Pharmacists, Berlin
Center for Drug Information and Pharmacy
Practice
ABDA - Federal Union of German
Associations of Pharmacists
Jaegerstrasse 49/50
10117 Berlin
GERMANY
Telephone: + 49 30 40004 241, -242
Facsimile: + 49 30 40004 243
Email: zapp@abda.aponet.de
Director: Dr Martin Schulz
Principal drug information pharmacist: Dr
Ralf Goebel
Zentrum fr Arzneimittelinformation und
Pharmazeutische Praxis (ZAPP) der
ABDA.
Last update: February 2005
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Apotheke Staedtisches Klinikum,
Karlsruhe
Drug Information Service
Apotheke Staedtisches Klinikum
Moltkestrasse 90
76133 Karlsruhe
GERMANY
Telephone: + 49 721 974 1652
Facsimile: + 49 721 974 1669
Email: apotheke@klinikum-karlsruhe.de
Pharmacist: Sylvia Crawford
Pharmacists in charge of drug information
service: Sylvia Crawford, Peter Boehne,
Martin Schmidt, Joachim Richter, Gertrud
Decker, Birgit Maas, Constanze Gandor.
Last update: February 2005
Apotheke der Universitaetsklinik,
Heidelberg
Drug Information Service
Pharmacy Department
University Hospital of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 670
69120 Heidelberg
GERMANY
Telephone: + 49 6221 56 6778
Facsimile: + 49 6221 56 4973
Email: RAIZ@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Email: martina.schwald@med.uni-
heidelberg.de
Director: Martina Schwald
Last update: September 2005
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Ghana
National Drug Information Resource
Centre, Accra
P. O. Box 10344
Accra-North
GHANA
Telephone: +233 21 678 557
Facsimile: +233 21 678 557
E-mail: info@ghanadruginfo.org
Web: www.ghanadruginfo.org
National Coordinator and Head: Philip
Anum
Last update: December 2003
Greece
Hellenic Rebublic, National
Organization for Medicines (Ethikos
Organismos Farmakon - EOF),
Athens
Ethikos Organismos Farmakon (EOF)
284 Mesogion Av.
GR - 155 62 Holargos-Athens
GREECE
Telephone: + 30 10 6507 297
Facsimile: + 30 10 6545 534
Email: relation@eof.gr
Head of Information Section (Chemist-
Pharmacist): Mr Apostolos Kampras
National drug organization for Hellas.
Web: www.eof.gr
Last update: January 2001
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India
Al Shifa Hospital, Perintalmanna
Drug Information Centre, Department of
Pharmacy Practice, Al Shifa Hospital,
Ootty Road, Perintalmanna 679 322
Kerala INDIA
Telephone: +91 4933 227616 (ext 468,
469)
Email: acpclinicalpharmacy@gmail.com
Drug Information Pharmacist: Dilip. C
Last update: August 2012
Annamalai University, Nagar
Drug Information Centre, Division of
Pharmacy Practice Department of
Pharmacy, Annamalai University P.O.
Annamalai, Nagar - 608 002 Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 4144 239738
Fax: + 91 4144 239738
Email: dicpharmd@gmail.com
Email: gpmohanta@hotmail.com
In-charge: Professor Guru Prasad
Mohanta
Last update: February 2009
Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh
Drug Information Center
Institute of Pharmacy
Assam Medical College
Dibrugarh - 786 002, Assam
INDIA
Telephone: +91 373 2300903
Fax: +91 024 2300080
Email: dicassam@gmail.com
Email: dic_amc@yahoo.com
In-charge:
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Mr Ariful Hussain, Lecturer, Institute of
Pharmacy
Mr Debajyoti Gogoi, Lecturer, Institute of
Pharmacy
Project under Karnataka State Pharmacy
Council and WHO India
Last update: February 2007
Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital,
Bangalore
Shivajinagar
Bangalore
Telephone: + 91 80 2559 1362 (ext 356)
Email: kspcbowringdic@hotmail.com
Email: kspcdic@hotmail.com
Drug Information Pharmacists: Mr Satya
Murthy, Ms PK Lakshmi
Medical Superintendent: Dr PM Shetty
Collaboration between Karnataka State
Pharmacy Council and Bowring and Lady
Curzon Hospital.
Last update: February 2005
Bulletin on Drug & Health
Information (BODHI), Kolkata
254, Lake Town
Kolkata 700 089
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 33 534 4878
Facsimile: + 91 33 534 4878
Editor: Professor PK Sarkar
Disseminates drug information through
BODHI (bimonthly) and also through
postal correspondence on individual
requests
Last update: February 1998
CDMU Documentation Centre,
Kolkata
Community Development Medicinal Unit
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47/1B, Garcha Road Telephone: + 91 832 2223176, 2432903

Kolkata - 700 019
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 33 2461 8153
Facsimile: + 91 33 2475 5668
Email: cdmudocu@vsnl.com
Email: cdmudocu@giascl01.vsnl.net.in
Web: www.cdmubengal.org
Manager: Sushanta Roy, tel. + 91 98311
31344 (mobile)
Only drug information centre in Eastern
Region of India
Last update: February 2005
Chattisgarh State Pharmacy
Council, Raipur
Drug Information Center
Chattisgarh State Pharmacy Council
Quarter No. - 77, Sector No. - 3
Geetanjali Nagar
Raipur (C.G.), Pin-492001
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 771 2444591
Fax: + 91 771 2442569
Email: dicraipur@gmail.com
Email: dicraipur@yahoo.com
DIC In-charge: Mr Amber Vyas
Project under Karnataka State Pharmacy
Council and WHO India
Last update: September 2008
Goa Drug Information Center
Fax: + 91 832 237776
Email: dicgoa@gmail.com
In-charge:
Mr Raj Vaidya, Chief Pharmacist
Ms Pooja Broker, Pharmacist
Project under Karnataka State Pharmacy
Council and WHO India
Last update: February 2007
Haryana State Drug Information
Center, Sirsa
Lord Shiva College of Pharmacy
Near Civil Hospital, PB No. 63
Sirsa, Haryana
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 1666 240057
Fax: +91 1666 242695
Mob: +91 981 2228328
Email: dicharyana@gmail.com
In-charge:
Mr Sameer Dhingra, Senior Lecturer
Ms Renu Kadian, Lecturer
Project under Karnataka State Pharmacy
Council and WHO India
Last update: February 2007
JIPMER - Jawaharlal Institute of
Post Graduate Medical Education
and Research, Pondicherry
Drug Information Centre
Department of Pharmacology

C/o Hindu Pharmacy JIPMER Hospital

Cunha Rivara Road, P.B. No. 149 Gorimedu

Panaji, Goa - 403 001 Pondicherry - 605 006

INDIA INDIA

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Telephone: + 91 413 2272381 ext 3302
Mobile: + 91 9360532592
Email: adr@jipmer.edu
Email: rpcjipmer@yahoo.com
Director - Professor & Head of
Pharmacology: Dr C Adithan
The Drug Information Centre, located at
JIPMER Hospital, was established by the
Department of Pharmacology in June
2007. It also provides services to other
hospitals in Pondicherry.
Last update: May 2008
JSS Medical College Hospital,
Mysore
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
JSS Medical College Hospital
Ramanuja Road
Mysore - 570 004
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 821 2421 218
Facsimile: + 91 821 2495 900
Email: clinpha@airtelbroadband.in
Professor & Head: Dr G Parthasarathi
Assistant Professor: Mr M Ramesh
Drug Information Centre located at JSS
Hospital, Mysore was established by the
JSS College of Pharmacy in 1997. It also
provides services to Holdsworth Memorial
Hospital and Basappa Memorial Hospital.
Last update: April 2007
Karnataka State Pharmacy Council,
Bangalore
Drug Information Centre
Karnataka State Pharmacy Council
514/E, I MAIN, II STAGE, RPC Layout
Vijayanagar Club Road
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Bangalore - 560 040
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 80 2338 3142
Facsimile: + 91 80 2320 2345 (1000 to
1730 only)
Email: kspcdic@gmail.com
Email: kspcdic@blr.vsnl.net.in
Drug Information Pharmacist: Mr Samson
P George
Honorary Consultant: Dr PK Lakshmi
(email: sureshlakshmi6@yahoo.com)
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Victoria
Hospital, Bangalore
The Department of Pharmacy Practice is a
co-ordination programme between
Karnataka State Pharmacy Council, Al-
Ameen College of Pharmacy and Victoria
Hospital. The department provides a
postgraduate programme in pharmacy
practice. The KSPC Drug Information
Center in association with the Pharmacy
Practice Department provides drug
information to the combined hospitals of
Victoria, namely, Vanivilas Hospital and
Minto Hospital.
Drug Information Center in-charge: PK
Lakshmi, Deputy Director, Drug
Information.
Head of Department: Dr Shobha Rani R
Hiremath
Last update: September 2008
Kasturba Medical College Hospital,
Manipal
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Kasturba Medical College Hospital
Manipal, Uduppi(dt)
Karnataka
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 825 271 201
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Facsimile: + 91 825 270 062, 061
E-mail: anaghapadma@hotmail.com
Associate Professor & Head, Department
of Pharmacy Practice: Dr Padma GN Rao
Drug information service for health
professionals of Kasturba Medical College
Hospital. Supports teaching program for
postgraduate Pharmacy Practice students.
Last update: February 2005
Kempagwada Institute of Medical
Sciences, Bangalore
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Visveswarapura Institute of
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kempagwada Institute of Medical
Sciences Hospital & Research Centre
New Building, 4th floor, K.R. Road, V.V.
Puram
Bangalore, Karnataka, Pin 560 004
INDIA
Professor & Head: Dr Kalyani Prakasam,
MPharm, PhD
Telephone: + 91 80 41312648
Facsimile: + 91 80 26711861
E-mail: dickims_blore@yahoo.co.in
Last update: August 2007
Kovai Medical Center and Hospital
(KMCH)
Drug & Poison Information Center
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Kovai Medical Center and Hospital
Coimbatore 641014
INDIA
Telephone: +91 422-4323214
Head: A Vijayakumar
Last update: October 2011
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Maharashtra State Pharmacy
Council, Mumbai
Drug Information Centre
Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council
E.S.I.S. Hospital Compound
L.B.S. Marge, Mulund (W)
Mumbai - 400 080
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 22 2593 0607
Facsimile: + 91 22 2568 4291
Email: dicmspc@yahoo.co.in
Email: sampadapatvardhan@yahoo.co.in
Web: www.mspcindia.org
Pharmacist-in-Charge: Dr (Mrs) Sampada
Patvardhan (PhD Tech)
Last update: February 2005
National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research (NIPER),
Mohali
Medicine Information Centre
Department of Pharmacy Practice
National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research
Sector 67
S A S Nagar - 160062, Punjab
INDIA
Telephone: +91 172 221 4682 (to 4686)
Facsimile: + 91 172 221 4692
Email: medinfo@niper.ac.in
www.niper.nic.in/depart.htm#Medicine
Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice:
Dr Pramil Tiwari
Established under the aegis of the Higher
Education Link Scheme managed by the
British Council. Provides medicines
information to healthcare professionals
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practice. (www.riperjournals.org)
Last update: February 2005 Last update: October 2011
N.R.S. Medical College & Hospital, Rajasthan Pharmacy Council and
Calcutta Lal Bahudur Shastri College of
Drug Information & Dissemination Center Pharmacy, Jaipur
Pharmacology Department Drug Information Center

N.R.S. Medical College & Hospital Rajasthan Pharmacy Council and Lal
Bahudur Shastri College of Pharmacy
138, A.J.C. Bose Road
Udai Marg, Tilak Nagar
Kolkata - 700 014, West Bengal
Jaipur - 302004, Rajasthan
INDIA
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 33 3095 3066
Telephone: + 91 141 3258229, 2620517
Email: druginformation@rediff.com
Fax: + 91 141 2620517
Email: pradyot_biswas@vsnl.net
Email: dicjaipur@gmail.com
Pharmacist: PK Biswas
Email: dicjaipur@yahoo.com
Professor of Pharmacology: (Dr)
Krishnangshu Roy DIC staff: Dr Sunita Jain, Mr Manoj Dixit,
Ms Garima Joshi
Last update: November 2004
Project under Karnataka State Pharmacy
Raghavendra Institute of Council and WHO India
Pharmaceutical Education and Last update: March 2007
Research (RIPER) / RDT Hospital,
Anantapur Sri Ramachandra College of
Pharmacy, Chennai
Poison & Drug Information Center
Drug & Poisons Information Centre
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Sri Ramachandra College of Pharmacy
Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education and Research / RDT Hospital Sri Ramachandra Medical College &
Research Institute (Deemed University)
Chiyyedu Post, Anantapur
Porur
Andhra Pradesh, 515721
Chennai - 600 116
INDIA
INDIA
Telephone: + 91 8559244220
Telephone: + 91 44 4765512 363
Fax: + 91 8554255646
Email: dicsrmc@yahoo.co.in
Email: riperdruginfo@gmail.com
Principal: Dr Vasantha Janardhanan
Email: dixon.thomas@gmail.com
Lecturer in Pharmacy: Diviya PT
In charge: Mr Dixon Thomas
Lecturer in Pharmacy: Rexy J

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Last update: January 2005 MPH Advisor: Mohammad Abdollahi,

PharmD, PhD
Indonesia Drug and poison information service
available daily from 8 am to 2 pm (except
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Friday).
Jakarta
Last update: April 2002
Instalasi Farmasi
RSUPN Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Ireland
Jl. Kimia Ujung National Medicines Information Centre,
Jakarta 10320 Dublin
INDONESIA National Medicines Information Centre
Telephone: + 62 21 319 31688 St James's Hospital
Facsimile: + 62 21 314 3580 James's Street
Email: lia23@centrin.net.id Dublin 8
Email: yustikas@yahoo.de IRELAND
Head of Pharmacy Department: Yulia Telephone: + 353 1 473 0589
Trisna Facsimile: + 353 1 473 0596
RSUPN Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Email: nmic@stjames.ie
(RSCM) is the national referral hospital for
Indonesia. Email: chughes@stjames.ie
Pharmacists: Yustika Novianti, Rina Chief Pharmacist - Medicines Information:
Mutiara (Paediatrics) Ms Claudine Hughes
Last update: June 2010 National drug information centre for
healthcare professionals in the Republic of
Ireland.
Iran
Last update: February 2005
Drug & Poison Information Center, Tehran
Drug & Poison Information Center Israel
Second Floor, Third Building, Ministry of Beilinson Drug Information Center,
Health
Tel Aviv
Fakhr-E-Razi Street, Enghelab Avenue
Beilinson Drug Information Center
Tehran
Pharmacy
IRAN
Rabin Medical Center - Beilinson Campus
Telephone: + 98 21 641 9306
49100 Petah-Tikva
Facsimile: + 98 21 641 7252
ISRAEL
E-mail: snikfar@yahoo.com
Telephone: + 972 3 937 6911
E-mail: mabdol@hbi.dmr.or.ir
Facsimile: + 972 3 937 6912
Director: Shekoufeh Nikfar, PharmD

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Email: bstahl@clalit.org.il
Director: Bracha Stahl
Last update: February 2005
Italy
Milan Drug Information Centre (CIF)
Laboratory for Mother and Child Health
'Mario Negri' Pharmacological Research
Institute
Via Eritrea 62
20157 Milan
ITALY
Telephone: + 39 2 39005070
Facsimile: + 39 2 3550924
Email: Mother_child@marionegri.it
Director: Maurizio Bonati, MD
Last update: April 2005
Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo
Clinical Toxicology - Poison Control
Center
Ospedali Riuniti
Largo Barozzi, 1
24128 Bergamo
ITALY
Telephone: + 39 035 269 469
Facsimile: + 39 035 266 806
E-mail: clintox@ospedaliriuniti.bergamo.it
Director: Maria Luisa Farina, MD
24 hour/day poisons and drug information
service.
www.ospedaliriuniti.bergamo.it/azienda/Di
partimenti/Tossicol/index4.htm
Last update: January 2002
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Japan
Japan Pharmaceutical Information
Center, Tokyo
Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center
(JAPIC)
3rd floor, Nagai Memorial Hall
2-12-15 Shibuya, Shibuya-Ku
Tokyo, 150-0002
JAPAN
Telephone: + 81 3 5466 1827
Facsimile: + 81 3 5466 1814
Email: k-sasaki@japic.or.jp
www.japic.or.jp
Adviser: Ms Koko Sasaki
Last update: February 2005
Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe
Center for Clinical Pharmacy Education
and Research
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Kobe Gakuin University
518 Arise, Ikawadani-cho
Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-2180
JAPAN
Telephone: + 81 78 974 4765
Facsimile: + 81 78 974 5689
Email: akaho@pharm.kobegakuin.ac.jp
Associate Professor of Pharmacy: Eiichi
Akaho, PhD
Last update: February 2005
Kenya
Gertrude's Garden Children's
Hospital, Nairobi
Pharmacy
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Gertrude's Garden Children's Hospital
PO Box 42325-00100
Nairobi
KENYA
Telephone: + 254 2 3763 477
Facsimile: + 254 2 3763 281
E-mail: mojoo@gerties.org
Chief Pharmacist: Dr Atieno Ojoo
Last update: August 2002
Kyrgystan
Department of Drug Provision and
Medical Equipment, Bishkek
Drug Information Centre
Department of Drug Provision and Medical
Equipment
Ministry of Health
25 Tretiya Liniya str
Bishkek 720044
KYRGYZSTAN
Telephone: + 996 312 54 29 10
Facsimile: + 996 312 54 29 10
Email: ddp-me@elcat.kg
Head of Drug Information Centre: Saliya
Karymbaeva
Coordinator of the Eurasian Drug
Information Network, which joins
information centres from Ukraine,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Moldova,
Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and
Kyrgyzstan. Adverse drug reaction
monitoring and pharmacovigilance.
Last update: February 2005
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Lebanon
Htel Dieu de France University
Hospital, Beirut
Beirut Drug Information Center
Htel Dieu de France University Hospital
Abid Ishac Street - Achrafieh
Beyrouth
LEBANON
Telephone: + 961 1 615 248/278
Facsimile: + 961 1 615 248
Email: maguy.abouselwan@hdf.usj.edu.lb
Director of Pharmacy: Dr Maguy Abou
Selwan
Last update: August 2010
Lithuania
Drug Information Centre of State
Medicines Control Agency, Vilnius
Drug Information Centre of State
Medicines Control Agency
Traku str 14
2001 Vilnius
LITHUANIA
Telephone: + 370 2 222 720
Telephone: + 370 2 627 860
Facsimile: + 370 2 222 948
Email: JurgisRamanauskas@VVKT.lt
Head: Prof. Jurgis Ramanaukas
Drug information centre of State
Medicines Control Agency at the Ministry
of Health of the Republic of Lithuania.
Last update: January 2002
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Malaysia
Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (HUKM) - 'National
University Hospital of Malaysia',
Kuala Lumpur
Drug Information Centre - Pharmacy
Department
Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak
56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Telephone: + 60 3 9170 2154
Telephone: + 60 3 9173 3333 x 2154/2156
Facsimile: + 60 3 9173 7151
Drug Information Pharmacist:
Provides drug or medicine information
services mainly to base hospital
healthcare professionals, but also patients
and public, as well as retail pharmacies
and hospital pharmacies around West
Malaysia.
Last update: January 2005
National Poison Centre, Penang
Drug Information and Toxicology Unit
National Poison Centre
Universti Sains Malaysia
11800 Penang
MALAYSIA
Telephone: + 60 4 657 0099
Facsimile: + 60 4 656 8417
Email: prn8099@cs.usm.my
Email: sazhar@usm.my
Head: Dr Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman
National drug and poison information
centre for Malaysia.
Last update: November 2003
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Moldova
Informational Pharmacological
Centre 'DrugInfo Moldova'
Informational Pharmacological Centre
'DrugInfo Moldova'
Bogdan Voevod Ave
2a, office 2, Moldova, 2068
Chisinau
MOLDOVA
Telephone: + 373 2 44 40 12
Facsimile: + 373 2 45 05 94
Email: epn_nis@yahoo.com
Email: druginfo@dim.moldline.net
Drug Information Clinical Pharmacologist:
Dr Natalia Cebotarenco, PhD
DrugInfo Moldova is a non-profit
organization created in 1995 in order to
improve public health in Moldova and the
New Independent States. Main mission is
to promote Rational Drug Use and
Essential Drugs Concept, providing
independent, objective drug information to
the health care professionals, pharmacists
and consumers. The basis of DrugInfo
Moldova consists of specialists in health
care and pharmacists.
Nepal
Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara
Manipal College of Medical Sciences
Fulbari, Pokhara
NEPAL
Telephone: +977 61 526420
Facsimile: + 977 61 527862
Email: dicmth@fewanet.com.np
In-charge, Drug Information Center:
Pranaya Mishra
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Affiliated with Drug Information Network of
Nepal (DINoN) )
Last update: May 2004
Tribhuvan University Teaching
Hospital, Kathmandu
Drug Information Unit (DIU)
Department of Clinical Pharmacology
Institute of Medicine
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital
PO Box 3578
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
NEPAL
Telephone: + 977 1 4412303
Facsimile: + 977 1 4418186
Email: diu@healthnet.org.np
Email: druginfo@dda.gov.np
www.dda.gov.np
Contact persons: Prof. Kumud Kumar
Kafle, Dr Sanu Maiya Shakya, Dr Sangha
Ratna Bajracharya and Dr Yatin M
Shivkar.
Hospital-based drug information service.
Provides question-answer services and
other drug-related information, and
publishes Drug and Therapeutics Letter -
a quarterly drug bulletin. Member of Drug
Information Network of Nepal (DINoN).
Last update: April 2007
Netherlands
KNMP Medicines Information
Centre, The Hague
KNMP Medicines Information Centre
Postbox 30460
2500 GL The Hague
NETHERLANDS
Telephone: + 31 70 373 7377
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Facsimile: + 31 70 361 7637
Email: gic@knmp.nl
www.knmp.nl and www.apotheek.nl
Head Drug Information: Mrs Rian Lelie -
van der Zande
KNMP Medicines Information Centre is a
department of the Royal Dutch
Association for the Advancement of
Pharmacy (KNMP).
Last update: August 2011
New Zealand
Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch
Drug Information Service
Clinical Pharmacology Department
Christchurch Hospital
Private Bag 4710
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND
Telephone: +64 3 364 0900
Facsimile: +64 3 364 0902
Email: druginfo@cdhb.govt.nz
www.druginformation.co.nz
Chief Drug Information Pharmacist: Pam
Buffery
Last update: October 2008
Dunedin Hospital, Dundedin
Dunedin Hospital Pharmacy
Otago District Health Board
201 Great King Street
Dunedin
NEW ZEALAND
Telephone: + 64 3 474 7658
Facsimile: + 64 3 474 7638
Email: JocelynL@healthotago.co.nz
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Drug Information Pharmacist: Jocelyn RELIS Vest, Bergen

Livesey
Haukeland universitetssykehus
Last update: March 2005
5021 Bergen

Norway NORWAY
Telephone: + 47 55 97 53 60
RELIS Midt-Norge, Trondheim
Facsimile: + 47 55 29 07 18
St. Olavs hospital
Email: RELIS@helse-bergen.no
N-7006 Trondheim
Director, M.D.: Jan Schjtt
Last update: March 2005
Telephone: + 47 73 55 01 60
RELIS st, Oslo
Facsimile: + 47 73 55 08 15
Ullevl universitetssykehus
Email: RELIS@legemidler.no
0407 Oslo
Director, pharmacist: Marit Buajordet
NORWAY
Last update: March 2005
Telephone: + 47 23 01 64 11
RELIS Nord-Norge, Troms
Facsimile: + 47 23 01 64 10
Universitetssykehuset
Email: postmaster@relis.ulleval.no
i Nord-Norge HF
Director, pharmacist, MPH: Kirsten Myhr
Postboks 79
Last update: March 2005
9038 Troms
Common contacts for all web-related
NORWAY issues:
Telephone: + 47 77 64 58 90 Email: Webmaster@relis.no
Facsimile: + 47 77 64 58 94 www.relis.no (Norwegian only)
Email: RELIS@unn.no Last update: April 2002
Director, Pharmacist: Lars Smbrekke
Last update: March 2005 Oman
RELIS Sr, Oslo Sultan Qaboos University Hospital,
Rikshospitalet Muscat
0027 Oslo Medicine Information Services

NORWAY Department of Pharmacy

Telephone: + 47 23 07 53 80 Sultan Qaboos University Hospital

Facsimile: + 47 23 07 53 90 PO Box 38, Postal Code 123

Email: RELIS@rikshospitalet.no Al-Khod, Muscat

Director, pharmacist: Tone Westergren SULTANATE OF OMAN

Last update: March 2005 Telephone: + 968 2441 5705

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Facsimile: + 968 2441 5706
Email: nibu@squ.edu.om
Email: kassim@squ.edu.om
Drug Information Pharmacist: Mr Nibu P
Nair
Chief Pharmacist: Dr Kassim Al Riyamy
Medicine information services for health
professionals of Sultan Qaboos University
Hospital(SQUH), and other hospitals of
Oman.
Provides evidence based medicine
literature for drug approvals in SQUH.
Last update: March 2005
Pakistan
Aga Khan University Hospital,
Karachi
Department of Pharmacy Services
The Aga Khan University Hospital
P.O. Box 3500
Karachi - 74800
PAKISTAN
Telephone: + 92 21 486-1678
Facsimile: + 92 21 493-4294
Email: syed.raza@aku.edu
www.aku.edu
Assistant Manager Inpatient: Mr Syed
Shamim Raza
Last update: September 2007
Network for Consumer Protection in
Pakistan, Islamabad
The Network for Consumer Protection in
Pakistan
40-A Ramzan Plaza, Karachi Company
G-9 Markaz
Islamabad
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
PAKISTAN
Telephone: + 92 51 226 0133
Facsimile: + 92 51 226 2495
Email: helpline@thenetwork.org.pk
Email: ayesha@thenetwork.org.pk
In-charge Drug Information: Ayesha
Ahmed
The Drug Information Helpline is a local
service run by an NGO in the twin cities of
Islamabad and Rawalpindi. It offers a free
service to consumers as well as health
professionals. It offers all types of
information that will help in rational drug
use by both communities.
Last update: April 2002
Peru
Centro Nacional de
Farmacovigilancia e Informacion de
Medicamentos (CENAFIM), Lima
Av. Arenales No. 1302, OF 318-319
Jesus Maria, Lima
PERU
Telephone: + 51 14 716 246
Facsimile: + 51 14 716 353
Email: cenafim@digemid.gob.pe
Email: svasquez@digemid.gob.pe
Jefe del CENFIM: Ms Susana Vasquez
Lezcano
Last update: January 2002
The Philippines
National Drug Information Center,
Manila
Department of Pharmacology, College of
Medicine
University of the Philippines Manila
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P.O. Box 593, 547 Pedro Gil St
Manila 1000
THE PHILIPPINES
Telephone: + 63 2 526 4384
Facsimile: + 63 2 526 4384 (or 521 8251)
Email: ndic@pacific.net.ph
Email: isidrosi@kulog.upm.edu.ph
www.druginfo.ph
Project Leader: Isidro C Sia
Centre is a project of the Philippine
National Drug Policy Program
Last update: February 2002
Portugal
Centro de Documentao e
Informao de Medicamentos
(CEDIME), Lisbon
Drug Information Center - CEDIME
Associao Nacional das Farmcias
Rua Marechal Saldanha, 1
1249-069 Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Telephone: + 351 21 340 0660
Facsimile: + 351 21 340 0669
Email: MAugusta.Soares@anf.pt
Email: Elisabeth.Somsen@anf.pt
Technical Director: Maria Augusta Soares
Russia
Information Centre of Institute of
Pharmacology, Saint-Petersburg
State Pavlov Medical University
Information Centre, Institute of
Pharmacology SPb GMU
L. Tolstoy str., 6/8
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
St.-Petersburg, 197022, Filial 1
RUSSIA
Telephone: + 7 812 346 3417
Facsimile: + 7 812 346 3417
Email: karpov@spmu.rssi.ru
www.spmu.runnet.ru/spmu/pharm
Head: Oleg I Karpov
Last update: January 2002
Pharmedinfo, Moscow
Russian Centre for Pharmaceutical and
Medico-Technical Information -
Pharmedifo
Ministry of Health of the Russian
Federation
103051, Moscow, POB 195
RUSSIA
Telephone: + 7 095 211 5356
Facsimile: + 7 095 211 5356
Email: frmdin@dol.ru
Director: Mrs Galina V. Shashkova
Russian Centre Pharmedinfo has been
working in the field of drug information for
30 years in the former USSR and Russia.
Last update: January 2002
Saudi Arabia
King Fahad National Guard
Hospital, Riyadh
Pharmaceutical Care Department
King Fahad National Guard Hospital
P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426
SAUDI ARABIA
Telephone: + 966 1 252 0088 ext 2555
Facsimile: + 966 1 252 0088 ext 3097
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Clinical Pharmacist in charge of Drug
Information: Mohammad S Alorainy,
PharmD
Email: orainym@ngha.med.sa
Serving KFH staff and related sites and
clinics throughout Riyadh.
Last update: April 2002
King Faisal Specialist Hospital &
Research Centre, Riyadh
Drug Information Center
Department of Pharmacy Services
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research
Centre
P.O. Box 3354
Riyadh 11211 (MBC # 11)
SAUDI ARABIA
Telephone: + 966 1 442 7604
Facsimile: + 966 1 442 7608
Email:
druginformationcenter@kfshrc.edu.sa
Email: Nada@kfshrc.edu.sa
Email: Ngebran@kfshrc.edu.sa
Drug Information Pharmacists:
Ms Nada Abu-Shraie, BSc Pharm; Ms
Nicole Gebran, PharmD
Hospital website: www.kfshrc.edu.sa
Last update: July 2003
Singapore
Drug and Poisons Information
Centre, Singapore
Singapore General Hospital
Outram Road
Singapore 169608
SINGAPORE
Telephone: + 65 6423 9119
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia
Facsimile: + 65 6324 2991
Email: gpashy@sgh.com.sg
http://dpic.sgh.com.sg
Principal Clinical Pharmacist: Shyamala
Narayanaswamy
Last update: March 2005
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Pharmacy Department
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng
Singapore 308 433
SINGAPORE
Telephone: + 65 6357 2016
Facsimile: + 65 6256 6460
Email: wan_peng_lim@ttsh.com.sg
Senior Drug Information Pharmacist: Lim
Wan Peng
Last update: September 2006
Slovak Republic
Comenius University - Drug
Information Centre, Bratislava
Liekove Informacne Centrum
Comenius University, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Sasinkova 4
813 72 Bratislava 1
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Telephone: +421 2 59357 220 (229)
Facsimile: +421 2 59357 508
E-mail: farmakologia@fmed.uniba.sk
Head of Department: Prof. Kriska
In charge of drug information: Dr
Sladekova, Dr Slobodova, Dr Szalayova,
Dr Tisonova
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Toxicology Information Centre, Bratislava: Last update: January 2002

PharmDr Silvia Plackova, telephone +421
2 54774166. Spain
Last update: March 2002
Colegio Oficial de Farmacuticos de
Asturias, Oviedo
South Africa
Centro de Informacin de Medicamentos
Medicines Information Centre, Cape
Colegio Oficial de Farmacuticos de
Town
Asturias
Medicines Information Centre
C/ Campomanes 24, 1 Oviedo 33008
Department of Pharmacology
SPAIN
Faculty of Medicine, University of Cape
Telephone: + 34 98 521 2176
Town
Facsimile: +34 98 522 7676
Observatory, 7925
Email: cimo@redfarma.org
SOUTH AFRICA
Email: emmazardain@redfarma.org
Telephone: + 27 21 406 6829
Director: Ms Emma Zardain
Facsimile: + 27 21 448 0503
Regional drug information centre located
Email: pha-mic@uct.ac.za
in the north of Spain.
www.mic.uct.ac.za
Last update: August 2002
Drug Information Pharmacist: Briony
Chisholm
Colegio Oficial de Farmaceuticos,
Bilbao
Last update: January 2012
CIM - Centro de Information de
Pharmnet Amayeza Information Medicamentos
Centre, Johannesburg
Colego Oficial de Farmaceuticos
P.O. Box 11260
C/Sabino Arana 20 - 6
Fairland 2030
48013 Bilbao
SOUTH AFRICA
SPAIN
Telephone: + 27 11 447 2100
Telephone: + 34 4 439 5175
Facsimile: + 27 11 447 2150
Facsimile: + 34 4 439 5181
Email: amayeza@pharmnet.co.za
Email: cimbi@recol.es
www.pharmnet.co.za
Director: Juan del Arco
Manager: Lee Baker
Regional drug information centre for
Provides free telephone and Email based Bizkaia.
medicine enquiry answering service for
Last update: January 2002
health professionals - nationally and
internationally. One of the specialties
being developed is complementary
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Hospital Universitari Germans Trias Kynsey Road, Colombo 8

i Pujol, Badalona SRI LANKA
Servei de Farmcia Telephone: + 94 1 1269 5300
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol Facsimile: + 94 1 1269 1581
C/ del Canyet, s/n Email: info_vig@yahoo.com
08916 Badalona Email: rohinifernandopulle@gmail.com
SPAIN Head of Drug Information: Dr Rohini
Telephone: + 34 93 497 89 43 Fernandopulle
Facsimile: + 34 93 497 89 34 Joint collaboration with the Ministry of
Health. The centre provides drug
Email: bonafont@ns.hugtip.scs.es information to health care professionals
http://serverinf.hugtip.scs.es/Farmacia/far and consumers, and adverse drug
macia.htm reaction monitoring for the Ministry of
Health. We have a full time medical officer
Medical Subdirector: Xavier Bonafont to answer queries.
Last update: December 2001 Last update: February 2005
Hospital del Aire, Madrid
Servicio de Farmacia Sweden
Hospital del Aire Apoteket AB, Stockholm
c/ Arturo Soria, 82 Drug Information Centre
28027 - Madrid Apoteket AB
SPAIN S-131 88 STOCKHOLM
Telephone: + 34 1 407 0561 SWEDEN
Facsimile: + 34 1 407 0561 Telephone: + 46 8 454 8145
Email: aaguilar@sefh.es Facsimile: + 46 8 454 8135
Director: Dr Antonio Aguilar Email: inger.nilsson@apoteket.se
Drug information for Hospital del Aire and Director: Dr Inger Nilsson, telephone + 46
Air Forces. 8 466 1356, fax + 46 8 466 1360
Last update: January 2002 Last update: January 2002
ELIS, Lund
Sri Lanka Drug Information Centre
University of Colombo University Hospital
Department of Pharmacology S-221 85 Lund
Faculty of Medicine SWEDEN
Unversity of Colombo Telephone: + 46 46 171 920
PO Box 271 Facsimile: + 46 46 211 1987

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Email: ingrid.sandquist- Drug Information Specialist: Raymond G

larsson@apoteket.se Schlienger, PhD
Director: Mrs Ingrid Sandquist Larsson Last update: January 2001
ELIS is a cooperation between the University Hospital of Basel
National Corporation of Swedish Institute of Hospital Pharmacy,
pharmacies and the Department of Clinical Basel
Pharmacology in Lund.
Institute of Hospital Pharmacy
Last update: May 2002
Drug Information Service, Medizinische
Lkemedelsinformation VST, Querschnittsfunktionen
Gteborg
University Hospital of Basel
Lkemedelsinformation
Spitalstrasse 26
C/o Apoteket SU/Sahlgrenska
CH-4031 Basel
Box 75003
SWITZERLAND
SE-400 36 Gteborg
Telephone: + 41 61 265 2914
SWEDEN
Facsimile: + 41 61 265 2300
Telephone: + 46 31 342 37 37
Email: rbuxtorf@uhbs.ch
Facsimile: + 46 31 82 07 64
Pharmacist-in-Charge: Regine Buxtorf,
Email: lminfo.liv@apoteket.se PhD
Director: Mrs Margareta Ljunggren Last update: April 2002
In charge of drug information service: Mrs
Margareta Ljunggren, Mr Leif Bergendal, Thailand
Dr Anders Himmelmann.
Mahidol University, Bangkok
Last update: February 2002
Faculty of Pharmacy

Switzerland Mahidol University

447 Sri-Ayuthaya Road
University Hospital of Basel
Rajatheri, Bangkok
Division of Clinical Pharmacology &
Toxicology - Drug Information Service THAILAND
Department of Internal Medicine Telephone: .+66-2644-8677-91
University Hospital of Basel Facsimile: +66-2354-4326
CH-4031 Basel Email: pykty@mahidol.ac.th
SWITZERLAND Director: Dr Krittika Tanyasaensook
Telephone: + 41 61 265 8868 Last update: March 2011
Facsimile: + 41 61 265 8864
Email: rschlienger@uhbs.ch

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179 Longwood Avenue

United Kingdom
Boston, MA 02115-5896
UK Medicines Information
USA
Contact details for UK drug information
centres can be found under 'Directory' on Telephone: + 1 617 732 2759
the : UKMi Website Facsimile: + 1 617 732 2236
Email: Maria.Kostka-Rokosz@mcphs.edu
United States of America (Maria Kostka)
Cohen Childrens Medical Email: Lana.Dvorkin@bos.mcphs.edu
Center of New York, New York (Lana Dvorkin)
Pediatric Medication Resource Center
Executive Director: William McCloskey,
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Childrens PharmD
Medical Center of New York
Last update: March 2011
269-01 76th Avenue
University of North Carolina,
New Hyde Park, New York 11040
Chapel Hill
USA
Drug Information Service
Telephone: + 1 516 470 8915
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Telephone: + 1 516 470 3271
101 Manning Drive
Email:
Chapel Hill, NC
pedsmedresourcecenter@nshs.edu
USA
Director, Pediatric Pharmacy Service Line,
North Shore-LIJ Health System: Enrico M. Telephone: + 1 919 966 2373
Ligniti, PharmD, MSCP
Facsimile: + 1 919 966 8480
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Childrens
Email: alewis@unch.unc.edu
Medical Center of New York is a specialty
hospital within the North Shore-LIJ Health (Ashley Lewis)
System. The Center provides information Email: moertel@unch.unc.edu
for affiliated healthcare professionals
throughout the North Shore-LIJ Health (Maryann Oertel)
System. Director: Ashley Lewis
Last update: January 2013 The Center's priority is to serve health
Massachusetts College of professionals at UNC Hospitals and in the
surrounding area. We will attempt to
Pharmacy and Health assist other callers.
Sciences, Boston
Last update: March 2011
Center for Drug Information and Natural
Products
Vietnam
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi
Pharmacy Department

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Bachmai Hospital PO Box A178

Giaiphong Street Avondale, Harare
Hanoi ZIMBABWE
VIETNAM Telephone: + 263 4 790 233
Drug Information Pharmacist: Gam Do Facsimile: + 263 4 790 233
Email: gamlinh@gmail.com Facsimile: + 263 4 307 148
Drug Information Pharmacist: Duong Hai Email: datis@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Email: phar.duonghai@gmail.com Director: Dr Dexter Tagwireyi
Last update: March 2011 Email: dtagwireyi@medsch.uz.ac.zw
Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Pharmacist: Nyasha Mufukari
Hanoi Email: nmufukari@gmail.com
National Centre of Drug Information and Pharmacist: Louis Gadaga
Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring Last update: May 2011
3rd Floor, GMP Building
Hanoi University of Pharmacy
13-15 Le Thanh Tong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
VIETNAM
Telephone: +84 43 9335618
Facsimile: +84 43 9335642
Email: di.pvcenter@vnn.vn
Director: Associate Professor Nguyen
Dang Hoa
Email: nguyendanghoa@vnn.vn
Vice Director: Vo Thi Thu Thuy
Email: thuyvothu@gmal.com
Vice Director: Nguyen Hoang Anh
Email: anh90tk@yahoo.com
Last update: March 2011

Zimbabwe
Drug and Toxicology Information Service
School of Pharmacy, College of Health
Sciences,
University of Zimbabwe, Harare

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