19.01.2021
To the attention of interested persons
Appointment of a new NAMMD President
Starting today, 19 January 2021, Ms. Roxana Stroe regains the status of President of the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices. Ms. Roxana Stroe, MD, is a Senior Physician in Clinical Pharmacology and has been working for the NAMMD for 11 years. Since 2014, she has been a member of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee. She has been Coordinator of the Agency’s Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Directorate, being actively involved, together with the Agency’s and the Ministry of Health’s team, in the actions organised on the occasion of Romania’s mandate at the presidency of the Council of the European Union.
“The Covid-19 pandemic is a difficult period for all of us, but together with the Ministry of Health, the NAMMDR team of professionals will continue to promptly address the inherent challenges in the pandemic and provide fast and efficient solutions for the benefit of the Romanian patient. The Agency’s experts are an active part of the most important EMA working groups and contribute to the implementation of the European strategy for handling the crisis caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus.”
Enlarging the team of experts, increasing the degree of transparency of activities carried out in a professional manner, contributing, together with the Ministry of Health, the National Health Insurance House (NHIH) and other relevant institutions to various projects in order to increase patients’ access to medicinal products are some of the immediate objectives of the new President, Ms. Stroe.