Marica Ferri is currently Head of the Sector: Best Practice, knowledge exchange and economic issues at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). She holds a Masters degree in Epidemiology (Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli) and a Master degree in Systematic Reviewing of Scientific Literature in the Biomedical Field (University of Milan/University of Oxford). Since 1994 she has been working as a researcher and methodologist in the field of drug addiction and other medical disciplines.
She has been coordinating the Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol group during five years (1999–2004) and following this, she acted as a methodologist in the development of
several Guidelines at national and regional level. She coordinated the implementation phase of those guidelines, including training and assessment.
She conducted a cluster randomised trial over the effectiveness of the implementation of a clinical pathway for patients with stroke and she is author of several systematic reviews of evidence. She taught Masters University courses at the University Statale of Milan, University Bocconi of Milan and Catholic University of Rome, A. Gemelli.
