Bart van den Bemt

Bart van den Bemt is outpatient pharmacist and clinical scientist at the department of Pharmacy in the Sint Maartenskliniek in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The Sint Maartenskliniek is a hospital specialized in Rheumatology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation.

Bart earned his MSc in pharmacy and his pharmacist’s degree at the University of Utrecht. Subsequently he completed his postgraduate qualification as community pharmacist. After several years working in a community pharmacy Bart decided to broaden his experience and started to work as pharmaceutical care-developer for a franchise formula for community pharmacies. Since 2003 Bart is working at the Sint Maartenskliniek.

Due to his experiences as community-, clinical-, outpatient- and formula-pharmacist Bart has extensive experience of pharmacy practice, the development pharmaceutical care programs and development of educational programs. Bart also founded a new Dutch bachelor course Pharmaceutical Consultant and is member of several pharmacotherapeutical committees.

Bart’s research interests are focused on Individualized Pharmacotherapy including therapeutic drug monitoring of biologicals, adverse effects of NSAIDs and adherence. Treatment Individualization was the main theme of Bart's PhD-thesis, which he obtained in 2009.