Almut G. Winterstein, PhD
Assistant Professor
- B.S. Pharmacy. Friedrich Wilhelm University
- Ph.D. Pharmacoepidemiology and Social
Pharmacy Humboldt University, Berlin
Professor Winterstein's research interests include health outcomes and quality assessment, with special regard to inappropriate drug therapy and its consequences in drug-related morbidity. She is developing computer-based tools for detection, measurement and prevention of adverse drug events. Dr. Winterstein is further interested in assessment techniques of patient-health quality-of-life, development of drug therapy quality indicators, and elderly-specific problems in drug therapy and health outcomes.
She served as a project director of the OMA study, sponsored by the European Union, which was a controlled multi-center trial of a community pharmacists' pharmaceutical care program to improve drug therapy and elderly patients' quality-of-life. Additionally, she participates in the PCNE (Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe) where she worked on an international validation of a system for screening, reporting and documenting drug-related problems.
Selected Publications:
- Winterstein AG, Jopp R, Schaefer M. Aeltere multimorbide Patienten werden in Apotheken gut betreut - Ergebnisse der OMA Studie Teil 1. [Pharmaceutical Care for elderly multimorbide patients - results of the OMA study, part 1] Pharm Ztg 2001;146(11): 833 - 841.
- Winterstein AG, Jopp R, Schaefer M. Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität als wichtiges Zielkriterium [Health-related quality of life as important health outcome] Pharm Ztg. 2001;146 (12):936 - 942.
- Winterstein AG, Jopp R, Schaefer M. Patienten profitieren von der Pharmazeutischen Betreuung [Patient benefit from pharmaceutical care] Pharm Ztg. 2001;146 (13):1024-1033.
- Bernsten C, Bjorkman I, Caramona M, Crealey G, Frokjar B, Grundberger E, Gustafsson T, Henman M, Herborg H, Hughes C, McElnay J, Magner M, van Mil F, Schaefer M, Silva S, Sondergaard B, Sturgess I, Tromp D, Vivero L, Winterstein A, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Care of the Elderly in Europe Research (PEER) Group. Improving the well-being of elderly patients via community pharmacy-based provision of pharmaceutical care - a multi-center study in seven European countries. Drugs & Aging 2001;18(1):63-77.
- Winterstein A, Basics and methods of outcomes evaluation in Pharmaceutical Care - an experimental study to improve drug therapy outcomes in an elderly multimorbid population. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, 1999 (predicate "magna cum laude").
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