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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7247
Email
michael.tatley@otago.ac.nz
Position
Director, New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre
Qualifications
MB ChB(CapeTown) FFCM(SA)
Research summary
Monitoring adverse reactions medicines

Research

Professor Tatley is Director of the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre.

The New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre consists of the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) and the The Intensive Medicines Monitoring Programme (IMMP).

Adverse reaction reporting is an important component of New Zealand's pharmacovigilance activities. The Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (CARM) in Dunedin is New Zealand's national monitoring centre for adverse reactions. It collects and evaluates spontaneous reports of adverse reactions to medicines, vaccines, herbal products and dietary supplements from health professionals in New Zealand. Currently the CARM database holds over 50,000 reports and provides New Zealand-specific information on adverse reactions to these products, and serves to support clinical decision making when unusual symptoms are thought to be therapy related.

The Intensive Medicines Monitoring Programme undertakes prospective, observational, cohort studies on selected new medicines. These are aimed at measuring the incidence of adverse reactions, their characterisation, the early identification of previously unrecognised reactions and the construction of a risk profile for each medicine. The results are reported to the Ministry of Health and the health professions. It has a considerable international reputation.

Publications

Savage, R., Lee, J., & Tatley, M. (2023). Impact of general practice on medicine and vaccine safety in New Zealand. Australian Journal of General Practice, (Suppl. 2), (pp. 238). Retrieved from https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/home Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ameratunga, R., Woon, S.-T., Sheppard, M. N., Garland, J., Ondruschka, B., Wong, C. X., … Tatley, M., … Tse, R. D. (2022). First identified case of fatal fulminant necrotizing eosinophilic myocarditis following the initial dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (BNT162b2, Comirnaty): An extremely rare idiosyncratic hypersensitivity reaction. Journal of Clinical Immunology, 42, 441-447. doi: 10.1007/s10875-021-01187-0 Journal - Research Article

Bennett, M., Chang, C. L., Tatley, M., Savage, R., & Hancox, R. J. (2021). The safety of cardio-selective beta1-blockers in asthma: Literature review and search of global pharmacovigilance safety reports. ERJ Open Research, 7, 1-10. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00801-2020 Journal - Research Other

Robson, H., Braund, R., Glass, M., Ashton, J., & Tatley, M. (2021). Synthetic cannabis: Adverse events reported to the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre. Clinical Toxicology, 59(6), 472-479. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2020.1828592 Journal - Research Article

Chan, L., Kenyon, S., & Tatley, M. (2019). Using spontaneous reports to confirm the safety profile of vaccines. Proceedings of the 5th Pharmacoepidemiology Research Network Symposium. Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/pharmacoepidemiology Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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