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Declan O'Rourke

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Declan O’Rourke has over 20 years’ experience in industry where he has held technical, marketing, product development, clinical development, production and pharmacovigilance roles.

He is a veterinary surgeon, holds a Diploma in Marketing, a Master of Business Administration and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He now directs Ortec PV Consultancy Ireland specialising in pharmacovigilance and represented IFAH-EU in the VICH Working Group on pharmacovigilance.

He is Honorary Associate Professor in Veterinary Pharmaceutical Development at Nottingham Veterinary School and Past President of British Cattle Veterinary Association.

Declan O'Rourke’s courses

  • 15 Oct • 2 day course

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

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  • 05 Nov • 2 day course

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

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Reviews for Declan’s courses

The Speaker was very well informed, clear in his presentation technique and keen and quick to address any questions. The content, pace and flow of the webinar was well judged and the way we were provided with examples of signals was very useful.

3 Jul 2025

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

A 10 overall. I hoped to have an overview of pharmacovigilance, learning the most relevant points. It has pleasantly fulfilled my expectations.. Despite not being 100% fluent in English, I could understand [speaker] quite well as he explained himself in a way that captured something as big as pharmacovigilance-very well.

3 Jul 2025

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Overall really enjoyed the webinar, found it very informative and useful. Would recommend.

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Speakers notes were very good and will be useful for me to go through after the course, to affirm the topics covered. His experience was of a high level and some good examples were provided for different PV scenarios.

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

His [speakers) expertise and passion related to the subject shone through.

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Thank you for the clear overview of how to maintain or set up a good PV system. Very good webinar, enough breaks in between presentations.
I really thought the webinar was very accessible and [I] was able to ask all of my questions. Very complete programme. Useful webinar!

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

I participated to the course in order to verify if our way of working is aligned with the expert one. I also get some intersting different approach that for sure I'll apply in my system.

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Excellent webinar, very informative! This seminar exceeded my expectations!

9 Oct 2024

Advanced Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Excellent! [Speakers were] very knowledgeable with clear experience in a broad range of PV roles.

2 Oct 2024

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

The speaker was very knowledgeable, and his course was quite diverse, handling EU and UK topics, but also zoomed in a bit on USA market. I feel more confident handling PV.

2 Oct 2024

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance