Mónica is a physician and holds a PhD. degree in Pharmacology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her major research field is Pharmacovigilance, especially the right use of medicines in clinical practice. Mónica has worked in multidisciplinary groups in order to identify post-marketing drug safety signals. She also has experience in management of databases, causality assessment of adverse drug reactions, and critical appraisal of medical literature and evidence based medicine. She has done internships at the Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance in Catalonia-Spain and in the Research Team at Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden. Currently, she is part of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP), and an international consultant.