empower science for patient care
The Board of Trustees
Dr. Cornelia Vetter-Kerkhoff
Specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy
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After studying pharmacy in Braunschweig and Munich, Cornelia gained a doctorate at the medical faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich (1992) for research on the “Optimisation of pharmacotherapy in a surgical intensive care unit through continuous pharmaceutical counselling” after which she accomplished clinical observerships in hospital pharmacies in the USA and UK. In 1992, she qualified as a specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy and subsequently established, further developed, and managed the Department of Drug Information and Pharmacoeconomics in the pharmacy of the University Hospital of Munich (LMU). She was a lecturer in clinical pharmacy from 2005-2017 and was teaching safety in drug therapy to nurses and medical students. Cornelia received the Berlin Health Prize in 2013 for her work: "A benefit for patient safety - evidence-based drug information from the hospital pharmacy for medical doctors and nurses".
PD Dr. Ute Amann
Master of Public Health & Specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy
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PD Dr. Ute Amann studied pharmacy at the Freie Universität Berlin and graduated at the LMU Munich as Master of Public Health. After several years in public pharmacies in Germany and New Zealand, she worked as a clinical pharmacist at the university hospitals in Freiburg and Munich, at the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, and also at a company for healthcare data management. From 2003 onwards, she consults on medical pharmaceutical and pharmacoepidemiologic matters initially in industry and later also in research. From 2010 to 2023 she worked as a scientist, at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS in Bremen and at the KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health. Ute Amann qualified as professor for epidemiology at the Medical Faculty of LMU Munich and is a lecturer in pharmacoepidemiology at the LMU.
Dr. Dorothea Strobach
Specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy
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Dr. Dorothea Strobach studied pharmacy at the University of Greifswald and received a doctorate for her research on arteriosclerosis under the supervision of Prof. Lorenz at the Institute for Prophylaxis and Epidemiology of Circulatory Diseases at the LMU Munich in 2004. Dorothea spent four years in a public pharmacy and specialised in general pharmacy in 1998 and in clinical pharmacy in 2011. Since 1999 she has been working at the hospital pharmacy of the University Hospital of Munich (LMU), Department of Drug Information, and is head of the department since 2012. Dorothea also teaches students of pharmacy and medicine at LMU.
Dr. Thomas Vorwerk
Specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy, Master of Arts
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Dr. Thomas Vorwerk studied pharmacy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He then worked there as a research assistant, where he obtained his doctorate in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Göber on a preparative-analytical topic. At the same time, he passed the examination to become a specialised pharmacist for pharmaceutical analysis in 1999. Since 2000, he has worked in the central pharmacy of Klinikum Region Hannover GmbH, which he has managed since 2010. In 2003, he passed the examination to become a specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy and completed further training in infectiology in 2017. He is active in professional politics and is committed to the establishment of ward pharmacists.
Dr. Sarah Fendt (geb. Lachenmayr)
Specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy
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Dr. Sarah Fendt studied pharmacy at the LMU Munich. In 2019, she completed her doctorate in the doctoral program Clinical Pharmacy at LMU Munich on the use of systemic antifungals in hemato-oncological patients. She has been working as a pharmacist at LMU hospital Munich since 2018 and was a post-doc in the doctoral program Clinical Pharmacy for several years. In 2020, she passed the examination to become a specialist pharmacist for clinical pharmacy, and in 2021 she completed further training in medication management in hospitals.