May 16th at 12:00
On-site event
Säätiö-sali, Medisiina D1024
Spring 2024 program

Heli Malm, MD, Adj.Prof, UH/HUCH
Prenatal exposure to drugs – harmful effects and challenges in investigating them

Docent Heli Malm, specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, is the leading expert in teratology in Finland. She worked as a consultant in the Teratology Information Service which serves both healthcare professionals and laymen for almost 30 years. Her research focuses on maternal drug exposure and pregnancy outcomes, with special focus on psychotropic drugs utilizing large, nationwide datasets and epidemiological methods. She has published several key papers in the field and she was recently appointed as an honorary member of the Finnish Society of Clinical Pharmacology. She has contributed chapters on drug use during pregnancy and lactation for several textbooks and is actively involved in teaching. More information: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/heli-malm

IPP seminar series covers the diversity of biomedical/medical research performed in Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology research unit in Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku plus interesting talks by visitors from national and international research collaboration networks.