Marie Schneider

Marie Schneider is a pharmacist and a professor at the University of Geneva. She graduated from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and obtained her PhD thesis in 2003. Her research focuses on the long-term management of medication adherence in chronic patients. She implemented a medication adherence clinic at the Pharmacy of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine in Lausanne and at pharma24, an academic outpatient clinic and a living lab in Geneva. The adherence clinic has developed a close collaboration with physicians, who refer their chronic patients experiencing adherence problems. She teaches at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, University of Geneva, in the areas of medication adherence, communication in health and interprofessionality. She developed and implemented a quality management system for clinical research in community care at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine in Lausanne. She is a board member of the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence (ESPACOMP).