Almut Winterstein is Distinguished Professor and the Dr. Robert and Barbara Crisafi Chair for Medication Safety in the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and in the Department of Epidemiology, and the founding Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Safety at the University of Florida. Since 2019, she also serves as director of the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research, a state-funded consortium of 11 universities in Florida. Dr. Winterstein’s research interests center on the post-marketing evaluation of medications and medical cannabis in pediatrics and pregnancy, infectious disease and psychiatry and the evaluation of policy surrounding medication use using real-world data. As expert in drug safety, she has chaired the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee from 2012-2018. Recognizing her contributions in pharmacoepidemiology, Dr. Winterstein was inducted as a fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology in 2013 and served as president of the society from 2019-2020. In 2022, she was inducted in the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine in Florida. She received her pharmacy degree from Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany and her PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology from Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Winterstein has chaired more than two dozen PhD committees and received the UF-wide Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring award for her excellence in graduate training.