Carlos Duran Salinas

Assistant Professor

Biography

Carlos E. Durán (1981) is an Ecuadorian medical doctor with experience in the fields of Drug Utilization Research, Public Health, Pharmaceutical Policy, and Therapeutic Information to prescribers. He got his doctoral degree at Ghent University, Belgium. Since 2021, he holds a position as Assistant Professor in the department of Data Science & Biostastistics at Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. In the department, he is part of a team of researchers, statisticians, and programmers conducting pharmacoepidemiological studies in large electronic healthcare databases. He is also affiliated as associate researcher to the Think Tank Medicines, Information and Power at National University of Colombia. For the last 14 years, he has been the Editor-in-chief of the Ecuadorian Green Book of Medicines, an independent therapeutic formulary.

Recent publications

A comparison of four self-controlled study designs in an analysis of COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis using five European databases Anna Schultze, Ivonne Martin, Davide Messina, Sophie Bots, Svetlana Belitser, Juan José Carreras-Martínez, Elisa Correcher-Martinez, Arantxa Urchueguía-Fornes, Mar Martín-Pérez, Patricia García-Poza, Felipe Villalobos, Meritxell Pallejà-Millán, Carlo Alberto Bissacco, Elena Segundo, Patrick Souverein, Fabio Riefolo, Carlos E. Durán, Rosa Gini, Miriam Sturkenboom, Olaf Klungel, Ian Douglas
Vaccine, 2024, vol. 42, p.3039-3048
Impact of 2018 EU Risk Minimisation Measures and Revised Pregnancy Prevention Programme on Utilisation and Prescribing Trends of Medicinal Products Containing Valproate Shahab Abtahi, Romin Pajouheshnia, Carlos E Durán, Judit Riera-Arnau, Magdalena Gamba, Ema Alsina, Vjola Hoxhaj, Morten Andersen, Claudia Bartolini, Sarah Brøgger Kristiansen, Jeremy Brown, Christine Erikstrup Hallgreen, Patricia Garcia-Poza, Helga Gardarsdottir, Rosa Gini, Anna Girardi, Emily Holthuis, Consuelo Huerta, Luisa Ibánez, Giorgio Limoncella, Mar Martín-Pérez, Olga Paoletti, Giuseppe Roberto, Patrick Souverein, Karin M A Swart, Kevin Wing, Miriam Sturkenboom, Olaf Klungel
Drug Safety, 2023, vol. 46, p.689-702
Impact of the 2018 revised Pregnancy Prevention Programme by the European Medicines Agency on the use of oral retinoids in females of childbearing age in Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain Carlos E Durán, Judit Riera-Arnau, Shahab Abtahi, Romin Pajouheshnia, Vjola Hoxhaj, Magdalena Gamba, Ema Alsina, Mar Martin-Perez, Patricia Garcia-Poza, Ana Llorente-Garcia, Diana Gonzalez-Bermejo, Luisa Ibánez, Mònica Sabaté, Xavier Vidal, Elena Ballarín, Gabriel Sanfélix-Gimeno, Clara Rodríguez-Bernal, Salvador Peiró, Aníbal García-Sempere, Francisco Sanchez-Saez, Valentina Ientile, Ylenia Ingrasciotta, Claudio Guarneri, Matilde Tanaglia, Michele Tari, Ron Herings, Eline Houben, Karin Swart-Polinder, Emily Holthuis, Consuelo Huerta, Rosa Gini, Giuseppe Roberto, Claudia Bartolini, Olga Paoletti, Giorgio Limoncella, Anna Girardi, Giulia Hyeraci, Morten Andersen, Sarah Brøgger Kristiansen, Christine Erikstrup Hallgreen, Olaf Klungel, Miriam Sturkenboom
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023, vol. 14, p.1-12
Background rates of 41 adverse events of special interest for COVID-19 vaccines in 10 European healthcare databases - an ACCESS cohort study C. Willame, C. Dodd, C. E. Durán, R.J.H.J. Elbers, R. Gini, C. Bartolini, O. Paoletti, L. Wang, V. Ehrenstein, J. Kahlert, U. Haug, T. Schink, J. Diez-Domingo, A. Mira-Iglesias, J. J. Carreras, C. Vergara-Hernández, C. Giaquinto, E. Barbieri, L. Stona, C. Huerta, M. Martín-Pérez, P. García-Poza, A. de Burgos, M. Martínez-González, V. Bryant, F. Villalobos, M. Pallejà-Millán, M. Aragón, P. Souverein, N. H. Thurin, D. Weibel, O. H. Klungel, M. C.J.M. Sturkenboom
Vaccine, 2023, vol. 41, p.251-262
COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring Studies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)-A Systematic Review of Study Designs and Methods Malede Mequanent Sisay, Camila Montesinos-Guevara, Alhadi Khogali Osman, Putri Widi Saraswati, Binyam Tilahun, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Fariba Ahmadizar, Carlos E Durán, Miriam C J M Sturkenboom, Peter van de Ven, Daniel Weibel
Vaccines, 2023, vol. 11
A Landscape Analysis of Post-Marketing Studies Registered in the EU PAS Register and ClinicalTrials.gov Focusing on Pregnancy Outcomes or Breastfeeding Effects Leonardo Roque Pereira, Carlos E Durán, Deborah Layton, Georgios Poulentzas, Panagiotis-Nikolaos Lalagkas, Christos Kontogiorgis, Miriam Sturkenboom
Drug Safety, 2022, vol. 45, p.333-344