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Value in Health Vol. 9 No. 6 (November/December 2006)
**NEW**
ISPOR CONNECTIONS Volume 12 Issue 5\
**NEW**
ISPOR 9th European Congress Photo Gallery
**NEW**
ISPOR 12th Annual International Meeting Short Courses
**NEW**
ISPOR 2007-2008 Board of Directors Call for Nominations
**NEW**
ISPOR 2007-2008 Treasurer Call for
Candidates
**NEW**
ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Lifetime Achievement Award, Research Excellence Awards, and Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Awards Call for Nominations
**NEW**
ISPOR BOARD, COMMITTEE, AND TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES-UPDATES
**NEW**
LOCAL CHAPTER, ADVISORY COUNCIL, AND ASIA CONSORTIUM NEWS-UPDATES
**NEW**
Value in Health 2007 Asia-Pacific Supplement
**NEW**
38 New Positions at the ISPOR Website
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
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8 January 2007 - Abstract submission deadline ISPOR 12th Annual International Meeting, May 19-23, 2007, Marriott Crystal Gateway Arlington,
Virginia, USA
ISPOR ONGOING ACTIVITIES
1.
Publications
2.
Meetings and Congresses
3.
Educational Activities
4.
Student News
5.
ISPOR Special Interest Groups
6.
Committee and Task Force Activities
7.
Advisory Council, Asia Consortium and Local Chapter News
8.
Employment in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes
Research
9.
Membership
1.
PUBLICATIONS
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VALUE IN HEALTH
**NEW**
VALUE IN HEALTH Vol. 9 No. 6 November/December 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS at:
http://www.ispor.org/valueinhealth_index.asp
EMPIRICAL
Impact of Rofecoxib Withdrawal on Cyclooxygenase-2
Utilization among Patients With and Without Cardiovascular Risk
Patrick Thiebaud, Bimal V. Patel, Michael B. Nichol
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Quality-Improving
Interventions in Oral Anticoagulation Management Within General Practice
Neree Claes, Karen Moeremans, Frank Buntinx, Jef, Arnout
Vermylen Jos, Herman Van Loon, Lieven Annemans
METHODOLOGY
Too Much Ado about Propensity Score Models? Comparing
Methods of Propensity Score Matching
Onur Baser
Longitudinal Metric Properties of Disability Rating Scales
for Parkinson's Disease
Pablo Martinez-Martin, Luis Prieto, Maria Joao Forjaz
Integrating the Patient's Perspective into Device Evaluation
Trials
Nancy Kline Leidy, Kathleen Beusterien, Erin Sullivan,
Randel Richner, Neal I. Muni
ISPOR NINTH ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONGRESS CONTRIBUTED
PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
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**NEW**
ISPOR CONNECTIONS
ISPOR
CONNECTIONS: Volume
12, Issue 5, September/October 2006 is now available at:
http://www.ispor.org/news/index_new.asp.
In this issue (by topic):
PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
ECONOMIC
EVALUATION
POLICY ANALYSIS
OUTCOMES
ASSESSMENT
2.
ISPOR MEETINGS
AND CONGRESSES
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ISPOR 9th ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONGRESS-
28-31
October 2006 Radisson SAS Falconer Hotel & Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
“ASKING CRITICAL QUESTIONS”
The ISPOR
9th Annual European Congress was held on 28-31 October 2006 at the Radisson SAS
Falconer Hotel and Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. This year, over
1,300 attended the Congress. Once again, ISPOR benefited from having multiple
Congress organizers. Ivar Sonbo Kristensen MD, MPH, PhD, Professor Institute
of Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and Bengt Jonsson PhD, Professor
of Health Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Center of Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, as Congress Co-chairs organized a yet another top-rate
program for congress attendees.
This year’s
Congress theme: Asking Critical Questions. Congress attendees were asked to
consider the following: meeting standards for patient reported outcomes - are
they achievable; do economists have anything to contribute to health economics;
what are the total societal costs and benefits of interventions, in the market
for pharmaceuticals; can we trust evidence based medicine; and should society
adopt a threshold value for QALYs.
**NEW**
PHOTO GALLERY at:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/pg/index.htm
3.
EDUCATION
ACTIVITIES
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**NEW**
ISPOR SHORT COURSES PRIOR TO THE ISPOR 12TH
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MEETING May 19-27, 2006
Sixteen
short courses will be given this year, with 9 courses on Saturday, May 19 2007, and 12 courses on
Sunday, May 20, 2007.
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007
Pharmacoeconomics for Decision-Makers
Faculty:
Lorne Basskin PhD, Director, Pharmacy Services, Healthsouth Sunrise Rehab Hospital, Cooper City, FL, USA
Retrospective Database Analysis – Econometric Methods
Faculty:
William H. Crown PhD, Senior Vice President, Economics and
Outcomes Research i3 Innovus, Auburndale, MA, USA; Henry Henk PhD, Researcher,
Ingenix, Eden Prairie, MN USA
Modeling: Design and Structure of a Model
Faculty:
Marc Botteman MA, Managing Partner, PharMerit North America,
Bethesda, MD, USA; Ben van Hout PhD, Scientific Director, PharMerit,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Professor in Medical Technology Assessment,
Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre
Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Joel Hay PhD, Associate Professor,
USC School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bayesian Analysis: Overview & Applications
Faculty:
Bryan Luce MBA, PhD, Senior Vice President, Science Policy,
United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA; Christopher S. Hollenbeak
PhD, Surgery and Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State College of
Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA; David Vanness PhD, Assistant Professor of
Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison,
WI, 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
Elements of Pharmaceutical/Biotech Pricing I - Introduction
Faculty:
TBD
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
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Quality of Life / Patient-Reported
Outcomes
Faculty:
Bruce Crawford MPH, MA, Director, Patient Reported Outcomes and
Regulatory Consulting-Operations Director, Mapi Values, Boston, MA, USA; Kathleen Rosa, PhD, Director of Psychometrics and Statistics, Mapi Values, Boston, MA, USA
Instrumental Variables in Addressing Selection Bias in
Observational Studies
Faculty:
TBD
For full
descriptions of ALL Saturday short courses, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/meetings/va0507/sc_051907.asp
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2007
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with Clinical Trials
Faculty: Scott Ramsey MD, PhD,
Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; Richard
Willke PhD, Senior Director, Group Leader, Global Outcome Research,
Worldwide Outcomes Research, US Development Sites Pfizer, Inc., Bridgewater,
NJ, USA
Use of Real World Data in Outcomes Research
Faculty:
Diana Brixner PhD, RPh
, Associate Professor and Department Chair, College
of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT;
Gregory de Lissovoy,
MPH
, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Economics and Policy,
United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD,USA; Daniel M. Huse MA,
Practice Leader, Information Products, Thomson Medstat Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Bayesian Analysis: Advanced
Faculty:
Bryan Luce MBA, PhD, Senior Vice President, Science Policy,
United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA; Keith R. Abrams PhD,
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, England, U.K.; Christopher
S. Hollenbeak PhD, Surgery and Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State
College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA; David Vanness PhD, Assistant
Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical
School, Madison, WI, 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
Patient-Reported Outcomes - Item Response Theory
Faculty:
Bryce Reeve PhD, Psychometrician, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD , USA
Case Studies in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Pricing II - Advanced
Faculty:
TBD
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
Faculty:
TBD
Outcomes Research for Medical Devices &
Diagnostics
Faculty:
Seema Sonnad PhD, Associate Professor,
Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Stacey
Ackerman, MSE, PhD, Vice President, Covance Market Access Services, San
Diego, CA, USA
Risk Assessment: Analysis and Management
Faculty:
Dennis W. Raisch, PhD
, Associate Center Director,
Scientific Affairs, VA Cooperative Studies Program, Clinical Research Pharmacy,
Albuquerque, NM, Anthony Lockett, MD, PhD, MBA, Medical Director, ICO,
Leeds, United Kingdom; Suellen Curkendall, PhD, Principal Investigator,
Cerner Health Insights, Vienna, VA, USA
For full descriptions of ALL
Sunday short courses, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/meetings/va0507/sc_052007.asp
4. STUDENT NEWS
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For
more details on the ISPOR Student Network, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/student/student_index.asp
5.
ISPOR SPECIAL
INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)
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SPECIAL
INTEREST GROUPS are
very important to ISPOR to achieve its mission. Their goals are to: develop
consensus; stimulate debate; advance knowledge/understanding; publish good
research practices; develop indices & tools for researchers and
decision-makers; compile health care information for public; respond to health
care public policy.
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN EVIDENCE-BASED REIMBURSEMENT SIG
TRANSLATING
RESEARCH TO PRACTICE SIG
PATIENT REGISTRY SIG
MEDICATION COMPLIANCE & PERSISTENCE SIG
RETROSPECTIVE DATABASE SIG
PATIENT-REPORTED
OUTCOMES SIG
RISK
MANAGEMENT SIG
To learn
more about ISPOR’s Special Interest Groups, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/sigsindex.asp
6.
ISPOR BOARD,
COMMITTEE, AND TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
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BOARD ACTIVITIES
**NEW**
ISPOR 2007-2008 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CALL FOR
NOMINATIONS
ISPOR is a
member-driven organization. As a member-driven organization, its
governance is determined by the membership. The ISPOR Nominations
Committee is seeking qualified candidates for the position of PRESIDENT-ELECT
and 2 DIRECTOR positions. You, as an ISPOR member, are invited to submit your
name if you wish to be considered for a position on the ISPOR BOARD OF
DIRECTORS. You may also recommend the name of another ISPOR member.
Please email your interest or recommendation to:
nominations@ispor.org.
Please attach curriculum vitae. The deadline for submitting nominations
is Friday, February 2, 2007.
**NEW**
ISPOR 2007-2010 TREASURER CALL FOR
CANDIDATES
The ISPOR Board of Directors is seeking qualified candidates for the position of 2007-2010 ISPOR Treasurer. The incumbent Treasurer's term will end June 30, 2007. The role of the ISPOR Treasurer, duties,
responsibilities, position description and requirements for the position are at the ISPOR website at:
http://www.ispor.org/board/treasurer.asp
If you are interested in responding to the 2007-2010 ISPOR Treasurer Position Call for Candidates, please email a letter of interest addressed to the ISPOR Board of Directors indicating relevant experience and attach your curricula vitae
to:
treasurer@ispor.org by January 1, 2007.
COMMITTEE/TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
**NEW**
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, 2006.
**NEW**
ISPOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The ISPOR
Awards Committee is seeking nominees for both the ISPOR Research Excellence
Award for Methodology Excellence and Research Excellence Award for Practical
Application Excellence. See
http://www.ispor.org/awards/methodology_.asp
and
http://www.ispor.org/awards/application_.asp
for Excellence Awards descriptions, criteria, selection process, nature of
award, and past recipients.
**NEW**
ISPOR BERNIE O'BRIEN NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The ISPOR Bernie
O'Brien New Investigator Award was established in 2004 to honor the
long-standing commitment of Bernie J. O'Brien, PhD to training and mentoring
new scientists in the fields of outcomes research and pharmacoeconomics.
The award will be presented at the ISPOR 12th Annual International
Meeting in Arlington, VA, USA May 22, 2007. The ISPOR Awards Committee is
seeking nominees for this award. See:
http://www.ispor.org/awards/Obrien_investigator.asp
for descriptions, criteria, selection process, and nature of the award.
The
deadline to submit nominees for both awards is FEBRUARY 9, 2007.
7.
ADVISORY COUNCIL, ASIA CONSORTIUM, AND LOCAL CHAPTER NEWS
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ADVISORY
COUNCIL
For more
details on ISPOR Advisory Councils, please visit:
www.ispor.org
ASIA
CONSORTIUM
For more
details on this consortium, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/consortiums/asia.asp
**NEW**
Value
in Health 2007
Asia-Pacific Supplement
A Value
in Health 2007 Asia-Pacific Supplement is in development. Thus far 36
papers have been received for consideration, among them, 14 are invited presentations
from the ISPOR 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference, and 22 are submitted via
the CALL FOR PAPERS notification.
LOCAL CHAPTERS
For more
details on ISPOR local chapters, please visit
http://www.ispor.org/regional_chapters/index.asp
8.
EMPLOYMENT
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POSITIONS LISTED AT THE ISPOR WEBSITE:
http://www.ispor.org/employment/Index.aspx
Advertise
your positions on the ISPOR Website (~1 million hits per month)
INTERNSHIPS
Visit
ISPOR's Internship-Professional Recruitment Assistance Program (I-PRAP)
at
http://www.ispor.org/iprap/index.asp
STUDENTS: Post your CVs/resumes for employers to view and search for
internship positions available. Nine student resumes posted!
EMPLOYERS: Post
your Intern positions for FREE
and access CVs/resumes from students. If
you have any questions, please contact:
iprap@ispor.org. For more information, visit
our website at:
http://www.ispor.org/iprap/index.asp.
9.
ISPOR MEMBERSHIP
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Update your
contact information and email address at:
https://www.ispor.org/members/addresschange.asp
!
Your email
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