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01: ClinSafety-PV [clear filter]
Monday, June 25
 

11:00am EDT

#105: Cardiac Safety in Drug Development and the Critical Role of Public-Private Partnerships: The Cardiac Safety Research Consortium Model
Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-518-L04-P; CME 1.00; IACET 1.00; RN 1.00

This session will discuss how the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium’s collaborative, precompetitive approach has significantly advanced the field of cardiac safety in medical product development. Industry, academia, and regulatory perspectives will be provided.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the concept and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships; Recognize the importance of cardiac safety considerations throughout new drug development; Describe new approaches to regulatory science in cardiac safety.

Chair

Rick Turner

Speaker

The Cardiac Safety Research Consortium: Current Accomplishments and Future Goals
Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD

New Approaches to Regulatory Science in Cardiac Safety
Norman Stockbridge

The Comprehensive In-Vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA)
Philip T. Sager, MD



Speakers
avatar for Mitchell Krucoff

Mitchell Krucoff

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, Duke University
Dr. Mitchell W. Krucoff is Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at Duke University. He serves as Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Unit and the eECG Core Laboratory at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and is a special government employee of the United States FDA, from... Read More →
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Philip Sager

Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Philip T. Sager, M.D, FACC, FAHA, FHRS is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University, the previous chair of the FDA Cardio-Renal Advisory Committee and an Executive Comm. member of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium. He is a member of the ICH E14 QT Group and is on the Steering... Read More →
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Norman Stockbridge

Director, Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products, OND, CDER, FDA
Norman Stockbridge received his MD and PhD (Physiology) from Duke University. He has been a part of the FDA/CDER Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products since 1991, serving as Division Director since 2004.
avatar for Rick Turner

Rick Turner

President, Turner Consulting and Communications LLC
J. Rick Turner, PhD, DSc, is an experimental research scientist, and currently President, Turner Consulting & Communications LLC. He is a member of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium’s Executive Committee, and an active participant in many aspects of the Science of Cardiac Safety... Read More →
avatar for Rick Turner

Rick Turner

Expert Consultant, DRT Strategies, Inc.
J. Rick Turner, PhD, DSc, is an experimental research scientist, and currently President, Turner Consulting & Communications LLC. He is a member of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium’s Executive Committee, and an active participant in many aspects of the Science of Cardiac Safety... Read More →


Monday June 25, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

11:00am EDT

#106: Signal Management: Separating Needles From Haystacks
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-519-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

The session will discuss signal management throughout the lifecycle and how to transition from the pre-approval to the post approval setting. In the post-approval setting, we will concentrate on signal management requirements in EudraVigilance and provide some examples of how companies are addressing the requirements.
The speakers have broad experience and represent the perspectives of CROs, large pharma and small biotech companies.

Learning Objectives

Describe the key elements of a signal management process throughout the lifecycle; Identify the requirements of signal management in EudraVigilance and formulate best practices.

Chair

William Gregory, PhD

Speaker

Experiences with the EVDAS Requirements
Uwe Trinks

From Clinical Trial to Post-Marketing Signal Management: A Continuum
Rosa A. Piccirillo, MD

Latest Initiatives with Signal Detection and Management at MHRA
Mick Foy



Speakers
avatar for Mick Foy

Mick Foy

Deputy Director of Patient Safety Monitoring, MHRA, United Kingdom
Mick Foy has been with the MHRA for more than 30 years, he is a member of the MHRA’s Senior Leadership team and has recently been appointed Deputy Director of Patient Safety Monitoring . Amongst his responsibilities is to lead MHRA efforts to build PV capabilities in other countries... Read More →
avatar for William Gregory

William Gregory

Senior Director, Safety and Risk Management, Pfizer Inc
He received formal training in infectious diseases and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and has more than 15 years of experience directing global product development and registration programs. He also has extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and health informatics as well... Read More →
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Rosa Piccirillo

Senior Director and Global Head, Medical Safety, Core Safety Services, IQVIA
Dr. Piccirillo is a Sr. Director Medical Safety at IQVIA. Dr. Piccirillo has experience in clinical trial development and implementation, with special focus on safety reviews, post-marketing surveillance, signal detection, risk management, reference safety information review-updates... Read More →
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Uwe Trinks

Partner and Director, Foresight Group, An IQVIA Company
Dr. Trinks is a Partner at Foresight Group International AG with 30 years of experience in Pharmaceutical R&D holding senior postions in R&D IT at Ciba-Geigy and Novartis and as CIO of Sentrx. He received a PhD in organic chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH... Read More →


Monday June 25, 2018 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

3:00pm EDT

#139: Novel Approaches to Pharmacovigilance Collaboration
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-536-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Following the success of its clinical initiatives, TransCelerate launched its first pharmacovigilance projects in 2017, which are now actively engaging with health authorities and delivering both near-term and long-term value. This session will feature a panel of leaders from TransCelerate’s pharmacovigilance teams, as they discuss the future of pharmacovigilance (challenges associated with globalization, data automation, new PV requirements, etc.) and discuss initiatives that TransCelerate has undertaken to address these challenges.

Learning Objectives

Describe expert perspectives on the future of the field of clinical safety and pharmacovigilance, with a focus on trends, challenges, and how collaborations can work to advance the industry in this space; Discuss strategies to address pharmacovigilance challenges.

Chair

Jose Vega, MD

Speaker

Industry Collaboration to Improve Patient Safety: TransCelerate’s Long-Term Vision to Address Pharmacovigilance Challenges
Jose Vega, MD

Evaluating the Value of Safety Information Data Sources: Gathering Evidence to Illustrate a Hierarchy of Value
Peter Verdru, MD

Interpretation of PV Regulations
Ajay B. Singh, MD

Value of Safety Information Data Sources
Jeremy Jokinen

FDA Perspective
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS



Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Jokinen

Jeremy Jokinen

Vice President and Head, Safety Evidence and Sciences, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, United States
Jeremy Jokinen is the Vice President and Head, Safety Evidence and Sciences at Bristol Myers Squibb. In this role, he leads a global team of risk management, epidemiology, and safety science experts responsible for insights, evidence generation, and risk minimization programs ensuring... Read More →
avatar for Gerald Dal Pan

Gerald Dal Pan

Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, CDER, FDA, United States
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS currently serves as the Director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where since 2005 he has been responsible for the Center’s programs in adverse event surveillance and analysis, pharmacoepidemiology... Read More →
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Ajay Singh

Team Leader, Safety Evaluation and Risk Management, GlaxoSmithKline
Ajay is a nephrologist by training and currently serves as a team leader in the Safety Evaluation and Risk Management group at GSK. The main focus of the group currently is development of oncology/immune-oncology products. Ajay represents GSK on the TransCelerate work stream focused... Read More →
avatar for Jose Vega

Jose Vega

Vice President, Chief Safety Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.
José M. Vega is Vice President, Global Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance (GCS&PV) and Chief Safety Officer at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL). He also serves as Chair of the TransCelerate Pharmacovigilance Steering Committee and as Merck's representative on the Clinical Trials... Read More →
avatar for Peter Verdru

Peter Verdru

Vice President, Head of Patient Safety, UCB Biopharma S.P.R.L.
Peter Verdru, MD was trained as neurologist and joined UCB in 1997. He is heading the global Patient Safety team since 2015. Prior to his current role, Peter was heading the Therapeutic Area CNS in Medical Affairs and Clinical Development.


Monday June 25, 2018 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

3:00pm EDT

#140: How Inspection-Ready is Your Organization?
Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-537-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This session will provide an overview of the current state of regulatory inspections – what is their current focus, as well as how inspections align and can vary between regulatory agencies. The MHRA will present a summary on the most common inspection findings as well as guidance on how best to address. Core elements of a comprehensive pharmacovigilance system will be reviewed to detail how one’s organization can achieve and maintain an “Inspection-ready” state. The Pharmacovigilance System Master File (PSMF) is a foundational element that can be invaluable in achieving this goal as it can support the safety governance model to reassure stakeholders the company’s ability to protect patient safety while meeting both global and regional requirements. A detailed review of the key PSMF components and their ability to align with inspectors’ requests will be discussed. Additionally, the session will feature real-world examples of how organizations are able to demonstrate their inspection readiness.

Learning Objectives

Describe the focus of MHRA inspections versus other regulators, such as FDA; Discuss best practices for establishing a fit-for-purpose quality system that meets global PV requirements; Define the core elements for inspection ready; Identify how to utilize the Pharmacovigilance System Master File (PSMF) as an effective inspection readiness tool; List real-world examples of inspection findings and inspection readiness.

Chair

Annette S. Williams

Speaker

Inspection Readiness: How Prepared are Your Systems for Global Regulatory Inspections?
Shelley Gandhi, MS

One Pharmacovigilance System to Satisfy FDA and MHRA’s Inspections
Anil K. Hiteshi, RAC

Inspection Readiness: MHRA Inspectorate Perspective
Joanna Harper



Speakers
avatar for Shelley Gandhi

Shelley Gandhi

Strategic Advisor, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety, NDA Group
Shelley is an experienced and highly motivated pharmacovigilance and risk management expert, with an international reputation in her field, specialising in delivering global safety solutions including safety governance models. Former senior manager at MHRA for over 19 years and represented... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Harper

Joanna Harper

Expert Inspector, GPvP, Inspectorate, Enforcement and Standards, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Jo joined the MHRA Inspectorate in 2007, having worked for 15 years in the pharma industry. Throughout 2010-2012, she led the inspectors' contribution to the Implementing Regulation and specific statutory guidance GVP Modules in support of the pharmacovigilance legislation changes... Read More →
avatar for Anil Hiteshi

Anil Hiteshi

Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, QA, PV and Drug Safety, and CDM, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
I am currently the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance at Spectrum Pharmaceuticals and have over 30 years of experience in the industry. I have previously worked at Anabolic Pharmaceuticals, McGaw Laboratories (now B. Braun), ICN Pharmaceuticals... Read More →
avatar for Annette Williams

Annette Williams

Vice President, Lifecycle Safety, IQVIA
Annette Williams, R.Ph, is Vice President of PV Services at IQVIA, encompassing global Safety Operations (case processing and regulatory reporting), Project Management, and Safety Systems. Williams leads the exploration and adoption of innovative technologies to streamline how Lifecycle... Read More →


Monday June 25, 2018 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session
 
Tuesday, June 26
 

8:00am EDT

#201: Generic Drug Products: Comparison of Safety Profile With Branded Cousin
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-554-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This forum will discuss how FDA interprets generic drug regulation and safety reporting requirements along with review practices, ethics considerations, and guidance and labeling development to monitor and ensure generic drug safety.

Learning Objectives

Summarize how pre- and post-market elements of generic drug safety and surveillance integrate understanding of critical clinical elements of performance; Compare risk/benefit considerations for patients versus healthy volunteers in bioequivalence (BE) studies and effects on enrollment criteria and safety monitoring.

Chair

Howard Chazin

Speaker

FDA Perspective
Howard Chazin

Academic Perspective
Aaron Kesselheim, JD, MD, MPH

Industry Perspective
Kiran Krishnan, PhD



Speakers
avatar for Howard Chazin

Howard Chazin

Director, Division of Clinical Safety and Surveillance, OSCE, OGD, CDER, FDA, United States
Dr. Chazin joined FDA in 2002 and has held several leadership positions related to clinical policy and safety of new drugs, biologics and generics. He is the Director of the Division of Clinical Safety and Surveillance in the Office of Generic Drugs' Office of Safety and Clinical... Read More →
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Aaron Kesselheim

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kesselheim is an internist, lawyer, and faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Within the Division, Aaron created and leads the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (www.PORTALresearch.org), an interdisciplinary... Read More →
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Kiran Krishnan

Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, Apotex Inc
Kiran Krishnan is Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs at Apotex Corp., located in Weston, Florida. He has 18 years of experience in the generic pharmaceutical industry. Kiran's areas of expertise include formulation development, process development, validation, intellectual... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum

10:30am EDT

#226: Regulators’ Utilization of Real-World Data in Pharmacovigilance Activities
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-571-L04-P; CME 1.00; IACET 1.00; RN 1.00

Regulatory agencies have conducted real-world studies of postmarketing safety concerns to inform their regulatory decision-making and explored safety surveillance methods using real-world data. This session will discuss the approach of the FDA, EMA, Health Canada, and PMDA, the challenges faced in exploring new methods and designing and conducting these studies, and future areas of research, including opportunities for international collaborative research.

Learning Objectives

Describe how regulatory agencies have used real-world data for safety surveillance and studies of post-marketing safety concerns; Discuss future areas of research by regulatory agencies using real-world data, including opportunities for international collaborative research.

Chair

Michael D. Blum

Speaker

Regulator’s Utilization of Real-World Data in Pharmacovigilance Activities
Yoshiaki Uyama, PhD

FDA's Sentinel Program
Michael D. Nguyen, MD

EMA Perspective
Agnès Saint-Raymond, MD

Improving the Use of Real World Evidence in the Regulatory Environment: Where Are We Heading in Canada?
Rhonda Kropp, BSN, MPH



Speakers
avatar for Michael Blum

Michael Blum

Deputy Director, Office of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology, CDER, FDA, United States
Michael Blum, MD, MPH is currently Deputy Director, Office of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology in FDA CDER. He is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist. Dr. Blum worked as a medical reviewer in the CDER Division of Anti-Infective Drug Products, followed by over 20 years in... Read More →
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Rhonda Kropp

Director General, Marketed Health Products Division, Health Canada
Rhonda Kropp is currently the Director General for the Marketed Health Products Directorate in the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada. She is responsible for the oversight of the vigilance of marketed health products in Canada, including ensuring Canadians and health... Read More →
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Michael Nguyen

FDA Sentinel Program Lead, FDA
Michael D. Nguyen, MD is the FDA Sentinel Program Lead and Deputy Director of the Regulatory Science Staff in the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). He oversees the day-to-day management of the Sentinel Program for the Agency... Read More →
avatar for Agnès Saint-Raymond

Agnès Saint-Raymond

Head of Division International Affairs, European Medicines Agency, Netherlands
Agnes is an MD and qualified French Paediatrician. She worked as a paediatrician in a paediatric Hospital in Paris, France, then in pharmaceutical industry, and then moved to the French Medicines Agency. In 2000 she joined the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and was responsible for... Read More →
avatar for Yoshiaki Uyama

Yoshiaki Uyama

Associate Executive Director, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan
Dr Yoshiaki Uyama is currently Associate Executive Director, Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) of Japan. He is responsible for regulatory science reserach in the agency. He has many experiences in new drug evaluation and real world data utilization, including the ICH... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

2:00pm EDT

#251: Risk Management: New Directions
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-587-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This session will hear from experts involved in digital risk minimization programs. They will describe how, following a Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) assessment report, a pilot was initiated to assess the feasibility and operational impact of developing and implementing digital additional risk minimization measures. The session will describe how a digital approach can support tool currency, continuous availability, and educational effectiveness. It will also cover aspects of internal vision development, global and local cross-functional collaboration, tool design, regulatory authority interactions, and the critical importance of change management.

Learning Objectives

Identify opportunities for developing digital risk-benefit communications; Describe the organizational aspects of developing digital strategies from the lessons of ongoing programs; Describe the key impacts on people, process and tech in the move to utilise digital approaches for REMS and risk minimization that could be applied to their own organizations.

Chair

Carla Perdun Barrett, PharmD

Speaker

Organizing for Digital Risk Minimization
Helen Edelberg

Preparing for Digital in Benefit-Risk Management: Get Ready for the Revolution
Mark Perrott, PhD



Speakers
avatar for Carla Barrett

Carla Barrett

Sr Director, Patient Safety Risk Mgmt, PRA Health Sciences
Dr. Carla Barrett is Senior Director, Risk Management at PRA Health Sciences. Carla has over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience (Wyeth, Pfizer, Allergan) in the strategic and operational aspects of pharmacovigilance risk management programs for products in development... Read More →
avatar for Helen Edelberg

Helen Edelberg

Head of Medical Safety Assessment, Innovative Medicines & Global Safety Risk Mgt, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr Helen Edelberg is Head of Med Safety Assmt for Innovative Med & Gbl Safety Risk Mgmt, which provides authoritative expertise on development & execution of rigorous & innovative risk mgmt strategies at BMS. A strategic & innovative biopharmaceutical exec & physician with ~20 years... Read More →
avatar for Mark Perrott

Mark Perrott

Head of Development Consulting, Pope Woodhead
Mark is Head of Development Consulting at PopeWoodhead where he leads a team of Benefit-Risk and Risk Minimisation professionals. He joined PW in November 2016 and his >20 year pharma career has included industry (Wellcome, GW, GSK and AZ) and consultancy roles (WCI and Foresight... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

4:15pm EDT

#276: Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-604-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This session will present current research and emerging best practices in the field of patient risk communication, including methods for collecting patient input in the design of these communication materials.

Learning Objectives

Identify key elements that are needed to make patient educational materials understandable and actionable for patients in their decision-making process regarding treatment; Examine the value of patient-generated real-world safety data, public hearings, and patient input into the development of risk communication tools.

Chair

Deborah E. Collyar

Speaker

Patient Engagement and Pharmacovigilance: Risk Interventions and Strategic Communications (RISC)
Emily Freeman, PhD, MSc

How Will EU Public Hearings Help with Patient and Public Engagement and How Should the Industry Prepare?
Shelley Gandhi, MS

Can Patient-Generated Real-World Data Illuminate Real World Evidence of Safety Concerns Sooner Than Traditional Sources?
David Blaser, PharmD

How Well Are We Doing Conveying Drug Safety Information to Patients? An Analysis of the Quality of REMS Educational Materials
Meredith Y. Smith



Speakers
avatar for David Blaser

David Blaser

Director, Health Informatics, PatientsLikeMe
David Blaser, PharmD is the Director of Health Informatics at PatientsLikeMe. David received his PharmD from Northeastern University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health outcomes/pharmacoeconomics at UMass Medical School. He joined PatientsLikeMe in 2011 and now serves... Read More →
avatar for Deborah Collyar

Deborah Collyar

President, Patient Advocates In Research (PAIR), United States
Deborah Collyar has been a patient engagement leader since her first cancer diagnosis. She founded Patient Advocates in Research (PAIR) international communication network in 1996, "where research meets reality." Deborah infuses hundreds of patient advocates into research programs... Read More →
avatar for Emily Freeman

Emily Freeman

Director, Patient Centered Outcomes, AbbVie, Inc.
Dr. Emily Freeman is a social/behavioral scientist interested in the development of evidence based communication tools to facilitate decision making between patients and healthcare providers. Dr. Freeman is exploring how medical evidence (i.e. risk, benefit, and health outcomes) is... Read More →
avatar for Shelley Gandhi

Shelley Gandhi

Strategic Advisor, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety, NDA Group
Shelley is an experienced and highly motivated pharmacovigilance and risk management expert, with an international reputation in her field, specialising in delivering global safety solutions including safety governance models. Former senior manager at MHRA for over 19 years and represented... Read More →
avatar for Meredith Smith

Meredith Smith

Global Risk Management Officer, Global Patient Safety, Amgen Inc.
Meredith Smith is Global Risk Management Officer at Amgen, Inc. where she leads a team of 6 scientists responsible for medicinal product benefit-risk assessment and risk management. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher by training with over 15 years of experience... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

4:15pm EDT

#277: Pharmacovigilance: No Longer Going it Alone
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-605-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

In the past, pharmacovigilance departments have often been limited in the way they interact with other functions within pharmaceutical organizations. The traditional function of the Safety organization has been to prevent harm to patients, and to react to emerging evidence of potential harm. Thus we have been reactive rather than proactive, and tactical rather than strategic.This is now changing. The growing emphasis on health technology assessment in the health care field requires strategic contributions from Safety. And expectations of a more patient-centered approach now mean that we must help patients manage their adverse drug reactions, in addition to simply characterizing and communicating risks. This session will describe how this transformation is taking place, resulting in a Safety organization that is a full strategic partner in development, and a key supporting function for commercialization. Strong, cross-functional safety governance is essential for effective decision making; means for assessing and improving safety governance maturity will be presented.

The session will also describe the evolving role of the safety statistician in helping multidisciplinary safety teams to think more quantitatively, and to improve the conversations we are having about safety evaluation during drug development.

Learning Objectives

Identify the forces in the healthcare system which are producing strategic changes in the safety organization; Assess the maturity of safety governance in your organization and identify opportunities for improvement: Describe how to form more effective partnerships with safety statisticians to drive the clinical decision-making process with medical judgment that is informed and supported by quantitative assessments of the data.

Chair

Alan M. Hochberg

Speaker

Evolving the Strategic Framework for the Safety Department
Alan M. Hochberg

Building Better Governance: The Maturity of Safety Governance Models and Considerations for Organizations
Ellenie Nichols, MEd

Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Successful Collaboration: Improving Conversations to Achieve Impact in Drug Development
Amit Bhattacharyya, PhD



Speakers
avatar for Amit Bhattacharyya

Amit Bhattacharyya

Vice President, Biometrics, ACI Clinical
Amit Bhattacharyya, PhD, is the Vice President of Biometrics at ACI Clinical, a niche service provider specializing in independently managing Safety Expert Committees. Amit is a thought leader in Drug Safety domain. Amit's also brings 20+ yrs at GSK in various global statistical leadership... Read More →
avatar for Alan Hochberg

Alan Hochberg

Principal Scientific Enablement Director, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland
Alan Hochberg is a Scientific Enablement Leader at Roche in Basel, involved in bringing innovations into the pharmacovigilance system. He was formerly with ProSanos, where he developed and evaluated signal-detection algorithms. He has worked in bioinformatics and biomedical engineering... Read More →
avatar for Ellenie Nichols

Ellenie Nichols

Global Patient Safety and Labeling, Safety Governance Lead, Amgen Inc.
Ellenie Nichols is Safety Governance Lead in Global Patient Safety and Labeling for Amgen, Inc. She has over a decade of experience working in Regulatory and Safety. Her current focus is on the impact and benefit of strategically aligning business practices with the safety governance... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

4:15pm EDT

#278: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Access and Methodology Development for Post-Market Generic Drug Monitoring
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-606-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Contrary to new drug applications (NDA) that often have extensive safety and efficacy evaluations using data from three phases of clinical studies, generics are evaluated through an abbreviated application (ANDA) with a much smaller trial (mostly in healthy subjects) to demonstrate their bioequivalence to the reference listed drug (RLD). Once the generic product enters the market, there is a substantial amount of information from post-marketing or secondary data that could be utilized to compare the clinical safety and effectiveness of approved and marketed generics to the prior data from the years of marketing the brand product without generic competition.
Due to the nonrandom and retrospective nature of the secondary data, it is imperative to control confounding to reduce biases. The FDA has funded a series of external grants and contracts that address the issue of generic drug substitutability by studying the utilization and switching patterns, the role of authorized generics, FAERS data, therapeutic class substitution, and statistical methodology that deals with the temporal confounding and unbalanced data. We are currently funding studies that address the generic drug utilization in special populations such as pediatric and senior populations. We started to exploit the opportunity to use Sentinel to compare outcomes between brand and generic products. The expert panel discussion, including members from Sentinel network, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology at FDA, and collaborators under the GDUFA regulatory science program, will share relevant experience and visions in this area.

Learning Objectives

Analyze the technical challenges involved in the comparison between the branded and generic products in post-market stage; Identify current data sources that enable post-market evaluation and quantitative approaches for signal detection; Evaluate the level of evidence associated with every study design of post-market research.

Chair

Liang Zhao, PhD

Speaker

Panelist
Joshua Gagne, DrSc, PharmD

Panelist
Sarah K Dutcher, PhD, MS

Panelist
Joseph Ross, MD, MHS



Speakers
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Sarah Dutcher

Epidemiologist, OSE, CDER, FDA
Sarah Dutcher is a pharmacoepidemiologist and health services researcher whose work focuses on designing studies and applying different analytic methods in secondary data to evaluate how pharmaceuticals are being used in the management of health conditions and the effects of these... Read More →
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Joshua Gagne

Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Joshua J Gagne is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he directs the Program in Pharmacoepidemiology. He... Read More →
avatar for Joseph Ross

Joseph Ross

Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, United States
Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS, is a Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at the Yale School of Medicine, an Associate Physician of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale-New Haven Health System, and Co-Director of... Read More →
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Liang Zhao

Director, Division of Quantitative Methods and Modeling, OGD, CDER, FDA
Dr. Liang Zhao has been serving as Director of the Division of Quantitative Methods and Modeling (DQMM), Office of Research and Standards (ORS) in Office of Generic Drugs, CDER since 2015. He initially joined FDA as a clinical pharmacology reviewer in the Office of Clinical Pharmacology... Read More →


Tuesday June 26, 2018 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
Room 252AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum
 
Wednesday, June 27
 

8:00am EDT

#301: Automation in Pharmacovigilance: Doing More With Less
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-622-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

The session will provide an overview of the current pharmacovigilance landscape and where the industry stands on automation versus manual processes with respect to adverse event processing, assessing, reporting and signaling. Functional areas will then be presented where companies can employ simple to sophisticated means to automate many of the resource intensive processes that will result in better consistency, higher quality and improved compliance.

Learning Objectives

Identify functions or processes that could benefit from improvements within their own pharmacovigilance practice especially through methods of automation; Explain how companies have successfully automated many aspects of the PV process and the benefits as well as liabilities such an automation can bring.

Chair

Axel Hagel

Speaker

Data Visualization and Analytics for Medical Monitors: Tech Adoption and Best Practices
Masha Hoffey, MS

Signal Detection in Social Media: Feasibility Assessment of Methods
Neal Grabowski, MS



Speakers
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Neal Grabowski

Director, Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety, AbbVie, United States
Prior to joining AbbVie, Neal held multiple roles in Patient Safety and Clinical Operations at Amgen, Genzyme and Sanofi. He holds a MS in biomedical engineering and MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Axel Hagel

Partner, Foresight Group International
Mr. Axel Hagel is a Partner & Director, Foresight, IQVIA and has over 24 years of experience in the life sciences industry, specializing in the deployment of PV applications in North America, Europe, and Japan. He has unique experience and implementation skills for global safety systems... Read More →
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Masha Hoffey

Director of Clinical Analytics, PerkinElmer Informatics, Inc.
Masha Hoffey is Director of Clinical Analytics at PerkinElmer, where she oversees the Clinical Practice. She has over eight years of experience with clinical and regulatory applications, driving clinical strategy at Virtify, Inc. as well as clinical and regulatory metrics strategy... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

8:00am EDT

#302: Risk Communication and Patient Safety: Recent Learnings and New Approaches
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-623-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

While the product label represents the primary source of information about a medicine’s risks, numerous other types of risk communication measures have been used or required by regulatory authorities to date, including Dear Healthcare Provider Letters, Medication Guides, educational brochures, monographs, reminder and/or alert cards, and checklists. Such materials are typically intended for a diverse audience (e.g., healthcare professionals, patients, informal care providers, general public) and for use in a diverse array of settings, ranging from hospital and outpatient clinics to home-based. Increasingly, regulatory authorities are seeking to incorporate new learnings from the science of risk communication to support more effective tools and methods for reaching these audiences, including patient-centered approaches, shared decision-making techniques, electronic medical records, and other digital-based forms of communication.
The purpose of this session is present highlights from recent risk communication initiatives at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and to illustrate how learnings from the emerging field of implementation science can be used to enhance the effectiveness of risk communication by both regulators as well as sponsors.

Learning Objectives

Describe recent efforts by a major regulatory authority (the European Medicines Agency) to improve the quality of therapeutic risk communication via partnership and engagement with patients and healthcare professionals; Identify how to implement therapeutic risk communication programs; Discuss new types of risk communication tools that the FDA has developed for sponsors to use when communicating medicinal product risks to healthcare professionals and patients.

Chair

Meredith Y. Smith

Speaker

Engaging Patients and Healthcare Professionals in Evaluating Risk Minimization Measures: How Can Regulators Best Listen to Medicine Users for Improved Regulatory Decision Making and Risk Communication
Juan Garcia-Burgos, MD

New Risk Communication Approaches for Patients: The FDA's Benefit-Risk Counseling Framework and Other Tools
Michael S. Wolf, PhD, MA, MPH

Prescription Medication Information and Adherence: New Research and Future Directions
Marina Serper, MD, MS



Speakers
avatar for Juan Garcia-Burgos

Juan Garcia-Burgos

Head of Public and Stakeholders Engagement Department, European Medicines Agency, Netherlands
Juan García Burgos is a Qualified Medical Doctor from Autonoma University in Madrid, specialised in urology. Juan worked as a urologist surgeon at the Maranon hospital in Madrid. He joined the European Medicines Agency in 2002 and was responsible for coordinating the preparation... Read More →
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Marina Serper

Assistant Professor of Medicine in Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Dr. Serper is a transplant hepatologist, health services investigator, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Serper’s research focuses on designing behavioral and health-system interventions utilizing health technology... Read More →
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Meredith Smith

Global Risk Management Officer, Global Patient Safety, Amgen Inc.
Meredith Smith is Global Risk Management Officer at Amgen, Inc. where she leads a team of 6 scientists responsible for medicinal product benefit-risk assessment and risk management. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher by training with over 15 years of experience... Read More →
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Michael Wolf

Associate Professor, Medicine and Learning Sciences, Associate Division Chief, Northwestern University
Dr. Wolf is Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He serves as both Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Medicine, as well as Associate Division Chief for General Internal Medicine. Dr. Wolf is a health services researcher and... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

10:30am EDT

#329: Reducing the Burden of Drug Safety Risk Minimization Programs on the Healthcare System: How Do We Do So and What Has Been Learned to Date?
Component Type: Session
Level: Advanced
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-638-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

As part of its REMS integration initiative under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act V, the FDA committed to improving the integration of risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) into the healthcare system. A designated team (the Design and Standardization Work Group) was established to identify best practices to incorporate into REMS design, as well as appropriate ways to standardize REMS tools and integrate REMS into the healthcare delivery system. Results of this workstream have important implications for how industry designs its REMS programs moving forward as well as for the efficiency of the healthcare system.
This session will discuss how it remains unclear as to how to accomplish this goal from a practical perspective.

Learning Objectives

Describe the nature of FDA’s commitment to reduce the burden of REMS on the healthcare system and to provide an update on the design and standardization workstream; Discuss a REMS program that was successfully integrated into the clinical workflow; Identify policy options for integrating REMS into the healthcare system.

Chair

Meredith Y. Smith

Speaker

An Update on the FDA's Design and Standardization Workstream in Regard to Integrating REMS Into the Health Care System
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS

Factors Impacting Selection of Risk Minimization Interventions
Sarah A. Frise

What are the Policy Options for Facilitating the Integration of REMS Strategies into the Healthcare System?
Gregory Daniel, PhD, MPH, RPh



Speakers
avatar for Gregory Daniel

Gregory Daniel

Deputy Director and Clinical Professor, Duke-Margolis Center For Health Policy
Gregory Daniel, PhD, MPH is the Deputy Director of the Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD Center for Health Policy and a Clinical Professor in Duke's Fuqua School of Business. He directs the DC-based office of the Center leading its pharmaceutical and medical device policy portfolio, and... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Frise

Sarah Frise

Global Director Risk Management, AstraZeneca
Sarah holds a Masters Degree in Physiology and Phd in Epidemiology. Sarah holds the position of the Global Director, Risk Management at AstraZeneca and a faculty position in Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. She is an active member of many Pharmacovigilance working groups... Read More →
avatar for Gerald Dal Pan

Gerald Dal Pan

Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, CDER, FDA, United States
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS currently serves as the Director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where since 2005 he has been responsible for the Center’s programs in adverse event surveillance and analysis, pharmacoepidemiology... Read More →
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Meredith Smith

Global Risk Management Officer, Global Patient Safety, Amgen Inc.
Meredith Smith is Global Risk Management Officer at Amgen, Inc. where she leads a team of 6 scientists responsible for medicinal product benefit-risk assessment and risk management. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher by training with over 15 years of experience... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 10:30am - 11:45am EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session

12:45pm EDT

#351: Moving Forward with the EU Vigil: The Patient Contact in Pharmacovigilance
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: IACET 0.50

Seating is limited
As for the Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance in industry (QPPV), Competent authorities and EMA could ask patients’ and consumers’ organisations to appoint an official contact person for pharmacovigilance. Although this contact person for patients has no legal obligation and is not mentioned in the legislation it is very much needed to maintain trust and confidence in marketed medicines. This Contact Person, ‘the Vigil’, would be trained on how pharmacovigilance is organized in Europe and in Member State of interest, and would be the liaison between members of an organization or users of social networks, and national or European regulatory authorities, possibly also for industry (as a second step). A registry of Contact Persons will list all volunteers appointed by their national authorities or EMA. The Vigils will benefit from training by national authorities, EMA, and other patients’ training programmes. Examples of successful engagement of patients in pharmacovigilance will be collated and analyzed. An action plan has been defined and written engagement sought from interested parties. This will include a Code of Practices, a reflection on legal status, and core competencies for a job description with enough flexibility for all types of patients’ organisations. A future aim is to create a sustainable structure to host the initiative and there are ongoing discussions with CIOMS as part of a possible group examining patient’s role in pharmacovigilance.

Learning Objectives

Describe the role and training needed for named patient for PV; Debate pros and cons of named patient for PV and identify opportunities that this role can produce; Identify how to get involved and help promote this initiative.

Chair

Brian Edwards, DrMed

Speaker

Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance
Herve Le Louet



Speakers
avatar for Brian Edwards

Brian Edwards

Principal Consultant, Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety, Vice-President ACRES, NDA Group, United Kingdom
After his training in hospital medicine and clinical research for 14 years, Dr. Edwards joined the UK Medicines Control Agency (MHRA) in 1994 where he had various responsibilities as a pharmacovigilance assessor. In 1999 he joined Parexel to become Senior Medical Director before joining... Read More →
avatar for Herve Le Louet

Herve Le Louet

President, Head of PV Coordination, CIOMS and APHP
Herve Le Louet is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology. He is currently head of Pharmacovigilance department of Paris University Hospitals (AP-HP). He is an hepatologist by training and has a PhD in Pharmacogenetic from the Paris University. He is the President of CIOMS and immediate... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 12:45pm - 1:15pm EDT
Content Hub NE Lobby Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session |   16: Content Hubs, Session

2:00pm EDT

#358: Expedited E2B Safety Reporting in Interventional Clinical Trials: Convergence of Global Expectations?
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-655-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

FDA has provided guidance to sponsors on systematic approaches to IND safety reporting that focus on informative reports of important safety information. To enhance the efficiency of this process, FDA has initiated a pilot program for the submission of IND safety reports in a standardized, structured format that follows the ICH E2B standard (with certain regional modifications). Likewise, for expedited clinical trial safety reports in Japan and elsewhere. This forum is designed to provide a balanced discussion of clinical trial electronic case reporting requirements based on audience interest. The forum will include lessons learned from the ongoing US pilot and a comparison with the clinical trials reporting situation in Japan. Each of the expert panel members will provide brief introductory comments and, at the conclusion of prepared remarks, the panel will entertain Q&A.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the importance of providing informative IND safety reports to FDA and high-level requirements for submission of ICSRs in E2B format; Describe the benefits and challenges of implementing structured electronic safety reports from clinical trials in the US and Japan; Outline initiatives in the US and Japan to improve and streamline expedited clinical trial safety reporting.

Chair

William Gregory, PhD

Speaker

Safety Reporting Practices: Current State, Efforts to Streamline the Process, and the Case for a Global Safety Database
Tamy Kim, PharmD

Emerging New PV World: Comparison of and Exploring New Guidelines for Clinical Research in Japan
Teiki Iwaoka

Directional Roadmap for ICSR Data Standards and Harmonized Case Reporting
Ta-Jen Chen, MS

FAERS II
Suranjan De

Industry Perspective
Dieter Kempf, MS



Speakers
avatar for Ta-Jen Chen

Ta-Jen Chen

Project Management Officer, OSP, CDER, FDA, United States
Mr. Chen is a project management Officer at Office of Strategic Programs, CDER, US Food and Drug Administration, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of electronic data standards for CDER regulatory review. As an FDA delegate to ICH E2B Expert Working Group... Read More →
avatar for Suranjan De

Suranjan De

Deputy Director, Regulatory Science, OSE, CDER, FDA, United States
Mr. De is the Deputy Director of CDER’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Regulatory Science Staff at FDA. He provides expert advice and technical direction on regulatory science for developing new tools, standards, and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality... Read More →
avatar for William Gregory

William Gregory

Senior Director, Safety and Risk Management, Pfizer Inc
He received formal training in infectious diseases and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and has more than 15 years of experience directing global product development and registration programs. He also has extensive experience in pharmacovigilance and health informatics as well... Read More →
avatar for Teiki Iwaoka

Teiki Iwaoka

Director, Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Development, Nanocarrier Co., Ltd.
Drug Safety & Pharmacovigilance expert. EWG for ICH E2B, and Rapporter for ICH E2D. Lecturer of many educational seminars worldwide more than 20 years. Executive Consultant, and Auditors for Global Pharmacovigilance Compliance.
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Dieter Kempf

Head, Pharmacovigilance Information and Systems, Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group
He is heading the PV Information and Systems group, which is responsible for systems supporting PV processes in the global Roche/Genentech Safety Risk Management organization. His experience also includes the implementation of clinical systems like EDC and thesaurus management, and... Read More →
avatar for Tamy Kim

Tamy Kim

Director, Regulatory Affairs/ Regulatory Policy, Oncology Center of Excellence, FDA, United States
Tamy Kim is the Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs (ADRA) in the Office of Oncology and Hematology Products (OHOP) and Acting ADRA in the Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE) at the FDA. In OHOP, her responsibilities include developing policies related to review processes, including... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum

2:00pm EDT

#359: IMEDS: A Collaboration Based on the FDA's Sentinel Initiative
Component Type: Forum
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-656-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

This forum will educate industry on how, when, and why, utilizing IMEDS may be helpful to answering drug safety and other types of pharmacovigilance research questions.

Learning Objectives

Explain the IMEDS program and the role of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA; Distinguish the IMEDS database from other safety study databases; Illustrate the purpose and uses of the IMEDS program.

Chair

June Wasser, MA

Speaker

Panelist
Cheryl Walraven, PhD

IMEDS Analytic Center: Supporting the IMEDS Research Portfolio
Jeffrey Brown, PhD, MA

Panelist
Claudia A Salinas, PhD



Speakers
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Jeffrey Brown

Associate Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. His primary research activities involve new approaches to facilitate large-scale multi-institutional research and the use of distributed... Read More →
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Claudia Salinas

Senior Director, GPS Pharmacoepidemiology, Eli Lilly and Company, United States
Dr. Salinas is a pharmacoepidemiologist, with a doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, currently working in late stage and postmarketing clinical development at Eli Lilly and Company. She has expertise in real-world data analysis and causal inference focusing... Read More →
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Cheryl Walraven

Director, Informatics, Aetna
Cheryl leads an Aetna team responsible for the FDA’s Sentinel public health initiative and other distributed research networks (DRNs) including AMCP’s BBCIC and Reagan Udall’s IMEDS. Cheryl joined Aetna to reduce healthcare disparities through program evaluation and RCTs in... Read More →
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June Wasser

Executive Director, Reagan-Udall Foundation For the FDA
June Wasser is the Executive Director of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA and in this role leads the direction of the Foundation and implementation of its programs. She is responsible for building strategic relationships throughout the public-private sector with the goal of... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum

4:00pm EDT

#382: Artificial Intelligence: A Disruptive Journey for Pharmacovigilance
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-673-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Pharmacovigilance is undergoing an unprecedented amount of change. As the global regulatory environment becomes more complex, PV departments are simultaneously faced with ever increasing volumes and varieties of safety data further stretching already limited resources. How can PV units become proactive and patient centric if they are overburdened by highly labor intensive processes? The rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and machine learning holds significant promise. This session will explore the real life journey of several organizations engaged in adopting cognitive computing across their PV landscape. Key considerations including how to initiate an automation odyssey, identifying targets for cognitive computing, the role of subject matter experts, and the impact of positive disruption will be explored.

Learning Objectives

Define cognitive computing and how it differs from robotic process automation; Describe the in-depth process for training cognitive systems along with the required iterative training processes; Identify key stakeholders and business impacts.

Chair

Annette S. Williams

Speaker

Training Artificial Intelligent System for Pharmacovigilance: Practical Considerations and Guidance
Cartic Ramakrishnan, PhD

The Future of Pharmacovigilance After Full Industry Disruption from Cognitive Automation
Glenn Carroll, MBA

Our Journey Toward Touchless Case Management
Caroline Rosewell, MBA



Speakers
avatar for Glenn Carroll

Glenn Carroll

Principal, Deloitte, United States
Glenn Carroll is a principal in our life science strategy practice with over 15 years pharmaceutical and biotech experience. Glenn leads Deloitte's US Safety and Medical practices. He has a strong track record in delivering strategic and operational excellence, specifically in the... Read More →
avatar for Cartic Ramakrishnan

Cartic Ramakrishnan

Senior Technical Staff Member, Lead Cognitive Scientist, Life Sciences, IBM Watson Health
Cartic Ramakrishnan is a research scientist with a background in NLP and Machine Learning. He serves as lead scientist at IBM Watson health developing solutions to problems in the biomedical and healthcare domain. Cartic's recent work has focused on the development of NLP systems... Read More →
avatar for Caroline Rosewell

Caroline Rosewell

Senior Director, Global Patient Safety, Clinical Case Management, Eli Lilly and Company
Caroline Rosewell has a BS - Monash University Australia & MBA - Indiana University U.S. Caroline started in the pharmaceutical industry in 1995 with CSL Ltd Australia & then joined Eli Lilly Australia in 2000. She has since held various pharmacovigilance (PV) roles across Australia... Read More →
avatar for Annette Williams

Annette Williams

Vice President, Lifecycle Safety, IQVIA
Annette Williams, R.Ph, is Vice President of PV Services at IQVIA, encompassing global Safety Operations (case processing and regulatory reporting), Project Management, and Safety Systems. Williams leads the exploration and adoption of innovative technologies to streamline how Lifecycle... Read More →


Wednesday June 27, 2018 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Room 253AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum

4:00pm EDT

#383: Safe Use and Prescribing of Opioid Medications: An In-Depth Look at the Strategies and Their Evaluation
Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-674-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Prescription opioids can be used to treat moderate-to-severe pain, such as pain following surgery or injury, in health conditions such as cancer, and in chronic, non-cancer conditions such as back pain or osteoarthritis. More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain, and prescription opioid therapy has been instrumental in helping patients manage their symptoms and achieve a better quality of life. However, it is estimated that more than 2 million Americans have opioid use disorder (OUD), and that millions more misuse opioids, taking these medications longer or in higher doses than prescribed. The problem has reached a level of crisis, as an average of 115 Americans die each day from an overdose of opioids, either prescription or heroin. According to CDC statistics, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids increased five-fold from 1999 to 2016, driven largely by prescription opioids.

These alarming increases in opioid-related harms have mobilized the US health system to implement strategies to support safe use and appropriate prescribing behaviors. This session will examine the framework and current strategies for a well-balanced approach aimed at reducing the supply of opioids vulnerable to misuse and mitigating risks through more judicious prescribing. Panelists will discuss the critical need and ways to assess the impact of these strategies on patient health outcomes and public health in order to avoid creating barriers to appropriate treatment for both acute and chronic pain.

Learning Objectives

Describe strategies to promote the safe use and prescribing of opioids within a framework balancing safe prescribing and appropriate pain management, risk mitigation, and patient access; Discuss how strategies can be implemented and determine how success may be defined and measured.

Chair

Sidney H. Schnoll

Speaker

Safe Use of Opioids: FDA Perspective
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS

Opiates: A Patient Experience
Alton Johnson, PhD, RPh

Clinician/Drug Development Perspective
Veeraindar Goli

Prescribing Opioid Medicines for Patients
Daniel P Alford, MD, MPH, FACP



Speakers
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Daniel Alford

Professor of Medicine, Director, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center
Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education and Director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine. He is on staff in the Section of General Internal... Read More →
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Veeraindar Goli

Senior Director, CNS Center of Excellence; Emeritus Professor, Duke University, IQVIA
Thirty-nine years of experience as a physician. Triple boarded in Pain Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Psychiatry. Medical Director, Pain Evaluation and Treatment Services, at Duke University Medical Center until 2008. MBA , Fuqua School of Business , Duke University, Durham, NC... Read More →
avatar for Alton Johnson

Alton Johnson

Vice President, Global Technology Services, Pfizer Inc
Alton Johnson is VP Global Technology Services leading Technology & Business Solutions function in Pfizer Global Supply. He has over 30 years of experience in new product development & launch, technology transfer, clinical supplies, marketed product support, PAT, and advanced manufacturing... Read More →
avatar for Gerald Dal Pan

Gerald Dal Pan

Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, CDER, FDA, United States
Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS currently serves as the Director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where since 2005 he has been responsible for the Center’s programs in adverse event surveillance and analysis, pharmacoepidemiology... Read More →
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Sidney Schnoll

Vice President, Pharmaceutical Risk Management, Pinney Associates, Inc


Wednesday June 27, 2018 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Room 253C Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Session
 
Thursday, June 28
 

9:00am EDT

#404: Biologics and Biosimilars: Payers, Industry, and Academia Collaborating on Post-Marketing Surveillance
Component Type: Forum
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-18-688-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Once seen as unreliable when compared to randomized control trials, use of real world evidence (RWE) beyond traditional observational studies is gaining traction. The focus of this forum is to describe how a collaborative effort—involving payers, industry, academia, medical societies, and regulators—strategically influences real world data (RWD) and RWE improvements that are achievable in the near term. The panel’s focus will be on real-life examples from our multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Learning Objectives

Analyze the payer/industry/academia collaboration on surveillance of biologics and biosimilars and the fit-for-purpose outcomes from this collaboration; Discuss the role of BBCIC's multi-stakeholder approach to driving solutions for FDA regulatory use cases; Describe real world evidence (RWE) and real-world data (RWD) and how they intersect to reduce time and cost of creating evidence.

Chair

Charles E Barr, MD, MPH

Speaker

Payer Contributions to Biosimilar Safety Surveillance
Kevin Haynes, PharmD

Pharmaceutical Industry Experience With Biosimilar Post-Marketing Safety
Hillel Cohen, PhD

Research Challenges in Biosimilar Safety and Surveillance
Nancy Lin, DrSc, MS



Speakers
avatar for Charles Barr

Charles Barr

Chief Science Officer, BBCIC, AMCP BBCIC, LLC
Dr. Charles Barr is Chief Science Officer at AMCP Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium. He worked in academic medicine, industry and research (clinical trials, registries & RWD). He was Group Medical Director and Head, Strategy & External Relationships in US... Read More →
avatar for Hillel Cohen

Hillel Cohen

Executive Director, Scientific Affairs, Sandoz Inc., United States
Dr. Hillel P. Cohen PhD is Executive Director of Scientific Affairs at Sandoz, helping explain the principles of biosimilars and biosimilar policies to the healthcare community, patient advocacy groups, and health authorities. He has published and given presentations in the areas... Read More →
avatar for Kevin Haynes

Kevin Haynes

Director of Clinical Epidemiology, HealthCore Inc.
Kevin Haynes, PharmD, MSCE is a Director of Clinical Epidemiology at HealthCore, Inc. and Adjunct Scholar and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He has had extensive collaborations with the FDA and serves as... Read More →
avatar for Nancy Lin

Nancy Lin

Senior Scientist, Epidemiology, Optum
Nancy Lin, ScD, is Senior Scientist, Epidemiology at Optum. A pharmacoepidemiologist, her primary research interests include applications for enriched electronic healthcare data systems to enhance surveillance and assessment of drug and biologics use, safety, and effectiveness. At... Read More →


Thursday June 28, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Room 204AB Boston Convention and Exhibition Center 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 USA
  01: ClinSafety-PV, Forum
  • Level Beginner
  • Featured Topics Biosimilars
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  • Featured Topics Real World Evidence,Biosimilars
  • Credit Type ACPE, CME, IACET, RN
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