ISPOR eBulletin

Welcome to the September 2010 edition of the ISPOR eBulletin. The ISPOR eBULLETIN provides updates of recent ISPOR activities and events. For detailed information on ISPOR activities, members are encouraged to see: www.ispor.org.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Personalized Medicine: The Value of Targeted Therapy

This plenary session on pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics opened the ISPOR 15th Annual International Meeting in Atlanta, GA, USA on May 17, 2010. To view the session in its entirety, please see: Personalized Medicine: The Value of Targeted Therapy»

MEETINGS

ISPOR 4^th Asia-Pacific Conference, Phuket, Thailand

The ISPOR 4th Asia-Pacific Conference will be held 5-7 September 2010 at the Hilton Phuket, Phuket, Thailand. For more information on program content, please see:

ISPOR 4th Asia-Pacific Conference »

ISPOR 13^th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic – OVER 1300 PRESENTATIONS

Plenary Sessions for this Congress:

Sunday, 7 November 2010 - Plenary Session I »

Monday, 8 November 2010 - Plenary Session II »

Tuesday, 9 November 2010 - Plenary Session III »

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 21 September 2010

ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress »

PUBLICATIONS

Value in Health Early View Articles

Twenty-five Early View articles are available on-line, including two new articles added in the last month.

Value in Health Early View articles »

Value in Health Volume 13, Issue 5 On-Line

Value in Health Volume 13, Issue 5 is now available on-line.
Value in Health »

ISPOR CONNECTIONS Vol. 16 No 4 July/August 2010 On-Line
ISPOR CONNECTIONS Vol. 16 No 4 July/August 2010 is now available on-line.
ISPOR CONNECTIONS Vol. 16 Issue 4 »

ISPOR GLOBAL OUTREACH

ISPOR Bosnia-Herzegovina Regional Chapter Launch New Website

The ISPOR Bosnia-Herzegovina Regional Chapter has launched their new website, which provides information about ISPOR and its Bosnia-Herzegovina Regional Chapter, such as addresses, contact information, activities, constitution, executive board, plus much more. The website is currently available in Bosnian and the English version will be launched by the end of 2010. To view this new website, please see: ISPOR Bosnia-Herzegovina Regional Chapter Website »

ISPOR South Africa Regional Chapter 3rd Annual Congress

The ISPOR South Africa Regional Chapter will hold its 3rd Annual Congress 15-17 September 2010, at Pfizer Laboratories, in Sandton, South Africa.

ISPOR South Africa Regional Chapter »

ISPOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS/TASK FORCES

ISPOR-SMDM Joint Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force Forum

The ISPOR-SMDM Joint Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force will be presenting a forum entitled, "Modeling Good Research Practices (The Good, The Bad, and The Ambiguous)," at the ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic on Tuesday 9 November 2010. For the forum description, please see:
ISPOR-SMDM Joint Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force Forum: Modeling Good Research Practices (The Good, The Bad, and The Ambiguous) »

ISPOR Personalized Medicine SIG Issues Panel
The ISPOR Personalized Medicine SIG will be presenting an Issues Panel, “Are Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine In Flux? Implications Of Global Policy Changes For Health Economics And Outcomes Research,” at the ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic on Sunday 7 November 2010.
ISPOR Personalized Medicine SIG Issues Panel: Are Diagnostics And Personalized Medicine In Flux? Implications Of Global Policy Changes For Health Economics And Outcomes Research »

ISPOR Health Economic Publication Guidelines Task Force Forum
The Health Economic Publication Guidelines Task Force will present the results of a comprehensive review and synthesis of HE guidelines and HE quality assessment publications during their forum entitled, “Developing Guidelines to Support Quality Improvement of Health Economic Publications,” at the 13th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic on Tuesday 9 November 2010. For the forum description, please see:
ISPOR Health Economic Publication Guidelines Task Force Forum: Developing Guidelines to Support Quality Improvement of Health Economic Publications »

ISPOR Risk Benefit Management SIG Forum
The Head to Head Comparison of EMEA to US RBM Guidelines Working Group will be presenting a forum entitled, “Comparisons of FDA and EMEA Risk Management Requirements for Recently Approved Products,” at the ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic on Tuesday 9 November 2010 comparing and contrasting REMs and RMPs for 29 recently approved New Chemical Entities (NCEs) and biological products. For the forum description, please see:
ISPOR Risk Benefit Management SIG Forum: Comparisons of FDA and EMEA Risk Management Requirements for Recently Approved Products»

ISPOR Prospective Observational Clinical Task Force Forum
The ISPOR Prospective Observational Clinical Task Force will be presenting a forum entitled, “Prospective Observational Clinical Studies Good Research Report,” at the ISPOR 13th Annual European Congress, Prague, Czech Republic on Tuesday 9 November 2010. For the forum description, please see:

ISPOR Prospective Observational Clinical Task Force Forum: Prospective Observational Clinical Studies Good Research Report »

TIP OF THE MONTH

ISPOR International Digest of Databases

Members can access the ISPOR International Digest of Databases to gain information about 192 health-care databases from 39 countries. To access the Digest, go to the 'Research' tab on the purple tool bar and select ISPOR International Digest of Research Databases. Please use the same link to enter your agencies or organization's database. The Digest is an initiative of the ISPOR Retrospective Database SIG group.
ISPOR International Digest of Databases »

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