Rate My Professor Ruth Savage

Ruth Savage's research focuses on pharmacovigilance and rational prescribing, including detection of previously unrecognized adverse drug reactions and interactions in national and international databases, assessment of automated signal detection outputs for clinical relevance, evaluation of risk factors for specific ADRs via case reports, and analysis of prescribing behaviors that enable ADRs or interactions and strategies for modification. She oversees parts of undergraduate general practice teaching modules and delivers postgraduate education to general practitioners and health professionals, stressing adverse drug reaction recognition and harm reduction. Notable publications encompass 'Uncovering pregnancy exposures in pharmacovigilance case report databases: A comprehensive evaluation of the VigiBase pregnancy algorithm' in Drug Safety (2025), alongside conference presentations such as 'Ten serious drug reactions to watch for' at the Goodfellow Symposium (2025) and 'Primary care and pharmacovigilance' at the RNZCGP Conference (2024). She has supervised summer studentships on drug utilization studies, diabetes care access, and smoking cessation interventions. Her contributions bolster medicines safety via primary care pharmacovigilance reporting and global collaborations.