Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre

Professor

Research Area

University of Toulouse, Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Toulouse University Hospital (Hôpitaux de Toulouse).

Biography

Dr Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre is MD, PhD, qualified in Clinical Pharmacology, Public Health and Pharmacoepidemiology. She is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, with a permanent position of Senior lecturer in pharmacology for the Health and Medicine Schools at the Toulouse University (South of France). Her areas of research include evaluation of long term effects of drugs and drug safety, with a particular interest in abuse and addiction to medications and determinants and outcomes of psychoactive drug use. As a member of the French Addictovigilance Network (FAN, https://addictovigilance.fr/ ), she is also scientific expert in charge of the potential of abuse assessment of gabapentinoids for the French Medicine Agency (ANSM).