ISPOR 10th Anniversary Party
Vincigliata Castle
Feisole, Italy
(TO BE HELD
DURING THE ISPOR 8TH EUROPEAN CONGRESS)
MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2005
20:00-23:30
WINE TASTING 
DINNER
BUFFET
MUSIC & DANCING
COMPLIMENTARY TRANSPORTATION
Buses will depart the Palazzo Delgi Affari at 20:15
and depart the Castle at 23:30. To register, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/italy1105/10annivparty.asp
Exhibitor Opportunities: *** SOLD OUT ***
Sponsorship Opportunities available at:
https://www.ispor.org/Exhibit_Sponsor/SponsorshipOpportunities.aspx?event=3
For more details about the Congress, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/italy1105/index.asp
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ISPOR 2nd ASIA-PACIFIC
CONFERENCE – MORE THAN 230 ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED (100% INCREASE FROM 1ST
CONFERENCE)
Shanghai Worldfield Convention Hotel, Shanghai, China • 5-7 March 2006
IMPROVING EVIDENCE AND OUTCOMES IN HEALTH CARE
DECISION MAKING IN ASIA PACIFIC: CHALLENGE TO A NEW ERA
**NEW** More than 230 abstracts submitted to the ISPOR 2nd
Asia-Pacific Conference.
CO-ORGANIZED BY
ISPOR Asia Consortium
Fudan University, P.R. China
CO-SPONSORED BY:
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Shanghai Municipal Government, P.R. China
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Ministry of Labor and Social Security, P.R. China
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Ministry of Health, P.R. China
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State Food and Drug Administration, P.R. China
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Shanghai City Food and
Drug Administration, P.R. China
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Peking University,
P.R. China
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, P.R. China
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Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, P.R. China
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Chinese Medical Association, P.R. China
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Chinese Health Economics Association, P.R. China
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Chinese Medical Doctor Association, P.R. China
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China Licensed Pharmacist Association, P.R. China
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Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, P.R. China
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The Pharmaceutical Association of Thailand under the Royal Patronage, Thailand
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China Social Insurance Association Medical Insurance Branch, P.R. China
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Chinese Clinical Epidemiology Society, P.R. China
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Chinese Cochrane Center,
P.R. China
For updates, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/sponsors.asp
SHORT COURSES:
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Introduction to Pharmacoeconomics
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Introduction to Quality of Life Assessment
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Meta-Analysis and Systematic Literature Review
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Introduction to Biostatistics in Clinical Trials
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Introduction to Decision Analysis
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Formulary Development
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Budget Impact Analysis
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Cost Analysis in Health Care
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Retrospective Data Analysis
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Modeling: Structure and Design of a Model
For further information, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/p030505.asp
1st Plenary Session:
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Development and Use
in Asia
Moderator/Speaker:
Tony YH Tarn PhD, Director, Department of Pharmacy, Taipei City
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Speakers: Shanlian Hu, MD, MSc, Professor, School of Public
Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Isao Kamae, MD, PH,
Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, Syed
Mohamed Aljunid, MD, MSc, PhD, FAMM, Professor of Health Economics
and Head of Department of Community Health, and Faculty of Medicine, Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia; Shu-Chen Li, PhD, MS, MBA, Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Bong-Min
Yang, PhD, Professor of Economics and Dean, School of Public Health,
Seoul National University, South Korea; and Viroj Tangcharoensathien, PhD,
Director of International Health Policy Program Ministry of Public Health,
Thailand.
2nd Plenary Session:
Development and Implementation of Pharmacoeconomics
Requirements: International Experiences
Moderator/Speaker: Wen Chen, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Speaker: Michael Drummond, PhD, Director, Centre of Health
Economics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
Speaker: Suzanne Hill, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacology
Faculty of Health University of Newcastle, Australia
10 PODIUM SESSIONS, 4 WORKSHOP SESSIONS and 9
CO-SPONSORED SPECIALSESSIONS:
For details, go to: http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/p030605.asp;
http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/p030705.asp
FINANCIAL SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES
Financial support opportunities are available at:
https://www.ispor.org/Exhibit_Sponsor/SponsorshipOpportunities.aspx?event=1
EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES:
Exhibitor opportunities are available at:
https://www.ispor.org/Exhibit_Sponsor/ExhibitorOpportunities.aspx?event=1
EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5 FEBRUARY 2006
For further conference information, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/index.asp
- EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
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ISPOR SHORT COURSES–ISPOR 8TH ANNUAL
EUROPEAN CONGRESS
Saturday,
6 November Short Courses:
Pharmacoeconomics for the
Health Care Decision-Maker
Faculty: Lorne Basskin PharmD, Clinical
Coordinator, North Shore Medical Center, Cooper City, FL, USA.
The Analysis and Interpretation
of Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcomes
Faculty: Linda Abetz MA, Director, Questionnaire
Development and Validation, Mapi Values, Bollington, UK; Christine de la
Loge Director, Psychometrics and Statistics Mapi Values, Lyon, France.
European Databases and
Retrospective Database Analysis
Faculty: Bernd
Brϋggenjϋrgen MD, MPH, Coordinator-Health Economics, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Cost Estimation and
Assessing Financial (Budget) Impact of New Health Care Technologies
Faculty: Josephine Mauskopf PhD, Global Head, Health Economics and
Outcomes Strategy, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; C. Daniel Mullins PhD, Professor and
Chair of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland,
School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Pharmacoeconomic Modeling
Faculty: Uwe Siebert MD, MPH, MSc, Decision Scientist, Director of
the Cardiovascular Research Program, Institute for Technology Assessment,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and
Director of the Program on Health Technology Assessment and Decision Sciences
(HTA&DS), Institute for Medical Informatics, Biostatistics, and
Epidemiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Gaby Sroczynski MPH,
Decision Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and Bavarian Public Health
Research and Coordinating Center, University Munich, Germany.
For Saturday Short Courses
descriptions, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/italy1105/satsc.asp
Sunday,
6 November Short Courses:
Elements of
Pharmaceutical Pricing
Faculty: Jack
Mycka, President,
Optimar Strategic Consulting LLC, Montclair, NJ, USA; Renato Dellamano PhD,
President, ValueVector (Value Added Business Strategies), Milan, Italy
Transferability of
Cost-Effectiveness Data between Countries
Faculty: Michael Drummond PhD, Director, University of York, Centre for Health Economics, York, UK
Health Care and
Reimbursement Systems in Europe
Faculty: Gordon Carey Cambridge Pharma Consultancy Ltd., Cambridge, UK
Bayesian Methods in
Economic Evaluations
Faculty: Anthony O'Hagan PhD, Professor of Statistics,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK; Jeremy E. Oakley
PhD, Lecturer, Department of Probability and Statistics, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; John Williams Stevens BSc, Statistician,
AstraZeneca, Leicestershire, UK
Discrete Event Simulation
for Economic Analysis
Faculty: J.
Jaime Caro MDCM, FCRPC, FACP, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal PQ and Scientific
Director, Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA; Jörgen Möller MSc Mech
Eng, Simulation Specialist, Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA
Utility Measurements
(Preference-Based Techniques)
Faculty: Jan
Busschbach PhD,
Senior Investigator, Department for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy and
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Elly Stolk MSc,
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University Medical
Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
For Sunday Short Courses
descriptions, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/italy1105/sunsc.asp
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ISPOR SHORT COURSES–ISPOR 11TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
MEETING – May 2006
Saturday,
May 20, 2006
Pharmacoeconomics for Decision-makers
Faculty: Lorne Basskin PharmD, Clinical Coordinator, Pharmacy Services, North Shore
Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA and President, Trinka Publications, Cooper City,
FL, USA
Retrospective Database Analysis – Econometric Methods
Faculty: William H. Crown PhD, i3 Magnifi, Auburndale, MA, USA
Modeling: Design and Structure of a Model
Faculty: Marc Botteman MA, Managing Partner, PharMerit North America, Bethesda, MD , USA
Finding and Extracting Cost Data
Faculty: Judith A. O'Brien RN, BSPA, Vice President, Director of Cost
Development Research, Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA
Bayesian Analysis: Overview
Faculty: Bryan Luce MBA, PhD, Founder and Senior Research Leader, The
MEDTAP Institute at United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA
Financial Impact / Cost
of Illness
Faculty: Josephine Mauskopf PhD,
Global Head, Health Economics and Outcomes Strategy, RTI Health Solutions,
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; C. Daniel Mullins PhD, Professor and
Chair of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland,
School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA
Bayesian Analysis: Applications
Faculty: Bryan Luce MBA, PhD, Founder and Senior Research Leader, The
MEDTAP Institute at United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA
Qualitative Methods for Quality of Life/Patient-reported Outcomes
Faculty: Judith Barr, Associate Professor and Director, Northeastern
University, Boston, MA, USA
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis alongside Clinical Trials
Faculty: TBD
Use of Real World Data in Outcomes Research
Faculty: TBD
Bayesian Analysis: Advanced
Faculty: Bryan Luce MBA, PhD, Founder and Senior Research Leader, The
MEDTAP Institute at United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA
Discrete Event Simulation for Economic Analyses
Faculty: J.Jaime Caro MDCM, FCRPC, FACP, Adjunct Professor of Medicine,
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University,
Montreal PQ and Scientific Director, Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA;
Jörgen Möller MSc Mech Eng, Simulation Specialist, Caro Research Institute,
Concord, MA, USA
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Quality of Life / Patient-Reported
Outcomes
Faculty: John Ware PhD, CEO & Chief Science Officer, Quality Metric
Incorporated, Lincoln, RI, USA
Elements of Pharmaceutical/Biotech Pricing I - Introduction
Faculty:
Jack Mycka, President, Optimar Strategic Consulting LLC, Montclair, NJ,
USA;
Renato Dellamano PhD, President, ValueVector (Value Added Business
Strategies), Milan, Italy
Statistical Considerations in Economic Evaluations
Faculty:
Henry Glick PhD, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA; Jalpa Doshi PhD, University of Pennsylvania,
School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA;
Daniel Polsky PhD, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Propensity Scores and Comorbidity Risk Adjustment
Faculty:
Fadia Shaya MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor/Associate Director, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Center on Drugs and Public Policy, Baltimore, MD, USA
Patient Registries: Overview & Application
Faculty:
Jeff Trotter MBA, President, Ovation Research Group, Highland Park, IL, USA
Utility Measures in Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Faculty:
F. Reed Johnson PhD, Senior Fellow, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Outcomes Research for Medical Devices & Diagnostics
Faculty: TBD
Case Studies in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Pricing II – Advanced
Faculty:
Jack Mycka, President, Optimar Strategic Consulting LLC, Montclair, NJ,
USA; Renato Dellamano PhD, President, ValueVector (Value Added Business
Strategies), Milan, Italy
Risk Assessment: Analysis and Management
Faculty:
TBD
ISPOR DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM MODULES
http://www.ispor.org/distancelearning/index.asp
The following module topics are currently available (over 40
modules):
·
Pharmacoeconomics
·
Pharmacoeconomic
Evaluations & Methods
·
Cost-Effectiveness
Analysis
·
Cost-Benefit
Analysis
·
Cost-Utility
Analysis
·
Patient-Reported
Outcomes (Utilities, Health-Related Quality Of Life, Treatment
Satisfaction, Treatment Adherence, Patient Preferences)
·
Study Design in
Pharmacoeconomics
·
Guidelines
and Reference Standards
·
Pharmacoeconomics
in Drug Development, Reimbursement and Marketing
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STUDENT NEWS
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START AN ISPOR STUDENT CHAPTER! Over 30 student chapters! For more
information:
http://www.ispor.org/student/chapters_index.asp
POST YOUR RESUME ONLINE for employers to view for IPRAP – Internship –
Professional Recruitment Center
http://www.ispor.org/iprap/index.asp
For more details on the
ISPOR Student Network, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/student/student_index.asp
- ISPOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)
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VALUE-BASED REIMBURSEMENT SIG
For more details on this SIG, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/reimbursement.asp
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SIG
For more details on this SIG, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/hta.asp
TRANSLATING RESEARCH TO CLINICAL PRACTICE SIG
For more details on this SIG, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/cp.asp
PATIENT REGISTRY SIG
Patient
Registry SIG Forum: Monday, 7 November 2005, 17:00-18:00,
at the ISPOR 8th Annual European Congress. Topic: Patient Registries: Opportunity And Responsibility
Moderator: Jeffrey Trotter MM, ISPOR Patient Registry SIG Chair
& President, Ovation Research Group, Highland Park, IL, USA; Speaker:
Leanne Larson MHA, Senior Vice President, Patient Registries, Ovation
Research Group, Highland Park, IL, USA.
QUALITY OF LIFE SIG
For more details on this SIG, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/qol.asp
MEDICATION COMPLIANCE & PERSISTENCE SIG
Issues
& Methods Working Group
Please
see: Poster Session III (Tuesday 8th November: ISPOR 8th
European Congress)
PHP46: DEFINING COMPLIANCE/ADHERENCE AND
PERSISTENCE: ISPOR SPECIAL INTEREST WORKING GROUP Poster Session III (Tuesday 8th
November: ISPOR 8th European Congress)
Burrell A1,
Wong P2, Ollendorf D3, Fuldeore M4, Roy A5, Fairchild C6, Cramer J7
1Sanofi-Aventis,
Bridgewater, NJ, USA; 2 Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, OH, USA; 3
PharMetrics, Inc, Watertown, MA, USA; 4 Walgreens Health Services, Deerfield,
IL, USA; 5 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA; 6 Alcon Laboratories,
Fort Worth, TX, USA; 7 Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT, USA
Economics
of Medication Compliance Working Group
Attend the
workshop organized by this Working Group at the forthcoming 8th
European Congress.
Monday 7
November 2006: 10.45-11.45 am: W10 Incorporating Measure of Compliance &
Persistence In Pharmacoeconomic Evaluations.
Analyses
Standards Working Group
Attend the
workshop organized by this Working Group at the forthcoming ISPOR 8th
European Congress
Sunday 6
November 2006, at 15.30-16.30: W2: Methods for Medication Compliance Studies:
Patient Compliance as a Predictor of Clinical and Economic Outcomes.
For more
details on the work of this SIG please visit
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/medication.asp
and attend the Forum to be held on Monday 7 November 17.00-18.00 at the ISPOR 8th
European Congress, Florence, Italy.
RETROSPECTIVE DATABASE SIG
Classification
of Databases Working Group – ISPOR DIGEST OF INTERNATIONAL DATABASES
The
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) is
developing an electronic index (Digest) of key attributes of health care
databases around the world at the ISPOR website, which will be accessible to
the public. This Digest is an initiative of the ISPOR Retrospective Database
Special Interest Group. For more information about this ISPOR Special Interest
Group, see:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/retrospective_db.asp.
RISK MANAGEMENT SIG
The Risk
Management Special Interest Group (RMSIG) Working Groups are:
- Risk/Benefit
Assessment Working Group–Co-Chairs: Larry Liu MD, PhD, Director, Anti-Infectives US Outcomes Research, Pfizer, New York, NY, USA; and Suellen Curkendall PhD, Principal Investigator, Cerner Health
Insights, Vienna, VA, USA.
- Risk/Benefit
Interventions Working Group–Chair: Anthony Lockett MBA, MD, PhD, Medical Director OHI, Leeds,
W. Yorkshire, UK
- Risk/Benefit
Management Best Practices Working Group–Chair: TBD
- Risk/Benefit
Communication Working Group–Chair: Ateequr Rahman MBA, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Shenandoah
University, Winchester, Virginia, USA
For an
overview of this RMSIG initiative, see the article “ISPOR Risk Management
Special Interest Group–A Plan for Action,” in ISPOR CONNECTIONS,
September/October 2005 issue.
For more details on this SIG, please
visit:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/rm.asp
and join as a reference or leadership group member.
Special
Interest Group membership is open to ALL ISPOR members. To JOIN any SIG:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/joinsig.htm
- ISPOR BOARD, COMMITTEE, AND TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
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AWARD COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
ISPOR AVEDIS DONABEDIAN OUTCOMES RESEARCH LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The ISPOR
Awards Committee is seeking nominees for the ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Outcomes
Research Lifetime Achievement Award.
See
http://www.ispor.org/awards/donabedian_.asp
For award
description, criteria, selection process, nature of the award, and past
recipients.
The deadline to submit nominees is
DECEMBER 15, 2005.
ISPOR COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE
**NEW** ISPOR PRESS RELEASE PROGRAM
The ISPOR
Press Release Program has been designed to increase the awareness of health
care outcomes research and its usefulness in health care decisions to the
general public.
This program offers authors of contributed scientific papers from ISPOR
Meetings/Congresses as well as in Value in Health to publicize their scientific
findings in much simpler terms to reach a broader public audience. Selected
ISPOR Press Releases will also be forwarded to national and international
media. All news releases will be published at:
http://www.ispor.org/pressrelease/index.asp and the ISPOR Research Digest, a web database of more than 6,000 research
presentations.
To learn
more about the ISPOR Press Release Program, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/pressrelease/pressreleaseformat.asp
To view
past media releases, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/pressrelease/index.asp
ISPOR TASK FORCE: USING "REAL WORLD"
DATA IN COVERAGE AND REIMBURSEMENT DECISIONS
Using
‘Real World’ Data In Coverage And Reimbursement Decisions Task
Force Forum: Monday, 7 November 2005, from
17:00-18:00, at the ISPOR 8th Annual European Congress. Moderators: Task Force Co-Chairs: Peter
Neumann ScD, Associate Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences, Harvard
School of Public Health , Boston, MA, USA, and Lou Garrison PhD,
Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA; Speakers:
Deborah Marshall, PhD, Director, Research & Development Health
Economics & Outcomes Research, Innovus Research Inc., ON, Canada; Dan
Mullins PhD, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Health Services, Research University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA; Pennifer Erickson PhD, Co-founder, O.L.G.A., State College,
PA, USA
ISPOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGY COUNCIL
Health
Care Strategy Council Forum: Monday, 7 November 2005, 17:00-18:00,
at the ISPOR 8th Annual European Congress. Topic: A Word from
Health Care Decision-Makers on Outcomes Research. Moderator: Marcus
Wilson PharmD, ISPOR Health Care Strategy Council Chair & President,
HealthCore Inc., Wilmington, DE, USA; Speakers: Dennis W
Raisch PhD, Department of Veterans Affairs, Clinical Research Pharmacy
Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Brian Sweet B.S. Pharm, MBA, WellPoint
Pharmacy Management, West Hills, CA, USA; Laurie Beth Burke RPh, MPH, FDA,
CDER, DDMAC, Rockville, MD, USA; Andreas Laupacis MD, MSc, FRCPC, Institute
for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada; Eugene Eavy RPh, MBA, St.
Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; James MacKay MD, Providence Health Plan, Beaverton, OR, USA; Joseph Singer
MD, Integrated Research Network, HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware,
USA; Marcus Wilson PharmD, Health Core, Inc, Wilmington, DE, USA;
and Michael Drummond PhD, University of York, Centre for Health
Economics, Heslington, York, UK.
ISPOR TASK FORCE: BUDGET IMPACT ANALYSIS
The Budget
Impact Analysis Task Force was created in May 2005 to establish good research
practice methods for conducting and reviewing budget impact analyses. The
report of this Task Force will be published in ISPOR Value in Health and
at the ISPOR website in 2006.
The Task
Force is presenting a workshop summary of their report at the upcoming ISPOR 8th Annual
European Congress in Florence, Italy, November 2005. The workshop will
take place Monday, November 5 at 5:00 PM and will feature the following
speakers:
Task
Force Co-Chairs: Josephine
Mauskopf PhD, VP,
Health Economics, RTI Health Solutions, RTI International, Research Triangle
Park, NC, USA; Sean Sullivan MS, PhD, RPh, Professor and Director,
University of Washington, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program,
Seattle, WA, USA
Lieven
Annemans MSc, PhD,
Health Economist Ghent University, Senior Consultant Global Health Economics,
HEDM and IMS Health, Brussels, Belgium; J. Jaime Caro MD, Scientific
Director, Caro Research, Concord, MA, USA; C. Daniel Mullins PhD, Professor
and Chair, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland
School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA; Mark Nuijten MBA, MD, PhD, Sr.
Research Scientist, Dir. of Business Dev., MEDTAP International, Inc., Jisp,
The Netherlands; Ewa Orlewska PhD, Lecturer, Pharmacoeconomics Centre
Warsaw, Warsaw; Paul Trueman MA, Sales & Marketing Director, York
Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, UK; John Watkins MPH,
RPh, Pharmacy Manager, Formulary Development, Premera Blue Cross, Bothell,
WA, USA; Andrew Wilson BMedSc, MB SC, FRACP, MSc, Deputy Director and
Professor of Public Health, University of Queensland, School of Public Health, Brisbane,
Australia
For more,
please visit the ISPOR website at:
http://www.ispor.org/workpaper/practices_index.asp.
- HOT TOPICS
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NEW DRUG
COVERAGE INCLUDES OPTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND SAVING MONEY–COST,
COVERAGE AND CONVENIENCE CAN BE FOCUS OF CHOICE
September 30, 2005 – All people with Medicare will have a range of choices
to enable them to get prescription drug coverage that reflects their
preferences, including options with low premiums and options offering more
coverage than Medicare’s standard drug benefit, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today.
For full text of the
article, see:
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050930.html
- IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
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8-11 November 2005 – ISPOR 8th
European Congress, Palazzo Degli Affari, Florence, Italy
9 January 2006 – On-line abstract submission deadline
for ISPOR 11th Annual International Meeting, Marriot Philadelphia, Philadelphia , PA,
USA
5 February 2006 – ISPOR 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference, Shanghai
Worldfield Convention Hotel, Shanghai, China **EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE**
5-7 March 2006 – ISPOR 2nd Asia-Pacific
Conference, Shanghai Worldfield Convention Hotel, Shanghai, China
20-26 May 2006 – ISPOR 11th Annual
International Meeting, Marriott Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- ASIA CONSORTIUM
AND LOCAL CHAPTER NEWS
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ISPOR ASIA CONSORTIUM
Asia Consortium extends its present to Pakistan. Now its members are form China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. For more details on this consortium, please
visit:
http://www.ispor.org/consortiums/asia.asp
ISPOR Japan Chapter inaugurated on 1 September, 2005.
For more details on this chapter, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/local_chapters/Japan/index.asp
ISPOR 2ND ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE–MORE THAN 230 ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED (100% INCREASE FROM 1ST
CONFERENCE)
The ISPOR 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference will be held in Shanghai, China, 5-7 March 2006. More than 230 abstracts have been received. Early
registration deadline is 5 February 2006.
For more details on the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference,
please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/conferences/shanghai0306/index.asp
For more details on other ISPOR Local Chapters, please
visit:
http://www.ispor.org/local_chapters/index.asp
- EMPLOYMENT
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**NEW** 18 NEW POSITIONS AT THE ISPOR WEBSITE:
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ISPOR Professional Recruitment Center at the 8th
European Congress
The
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
(ISPOR) will provide its successful Professional Recruitment Center
(PRAP) at the ISPOR 8TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONGRESS, 6-8 November 2005, in Florence, Italy.
Our recruitment center provides:
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**A mailbox
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