Mini-symposium: Mind the gap between efficacy and effectiveness
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 12:30-16:30 in the Lundbeck Novo rooms
The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universitetsparken 2, 2100 Copenhagen
Insights and understanding of the problematic aspects of the gap between efficacy and effectiveness in pharmaceutical R&D and clinical practice is essential person entering the pharmaceutical workplace in the future. It is of paramount importance to the industry and healthcare systems because lack of effect or safety issues, during clinical development phases, continues to be one of the most serious weaknesses of the pharmaceutical industries drug discovery and development process. Equally problematic is the lack of clinical effectiveness due to sub-optimal pharmacotherapy in a post marketing situation where the pharmaceuticals become available to a broad population.
Presentation of the key speaker:
Henry McQuay is Nuffield Professor of Clinical Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College. His clinical expertise is in the management of chronic pain, both cancer and non-cancer. His research interests have included bench studies of analgesics, primary clinical trials of analgesic interventions and latterly using systematic review techniques to work out the relative efficacy and safety of analgesics. He has published many articles about pain matters. He is co-editor of the evidence-based medicine publication Bandolier (www.eBandolier.com), and has been clinical section editor for Pain.
Programme
| 12:30-12:45 | Welcome Professor PhD Lona Christrup, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, PHARMA, University of Copenhagen |
| 12:45-13:00 | Introduction Chief consultant PhD Hanne Rolighed Christensen, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Bispebjerg Hospital |
| 13:00-13:30 | Advantages and limitations on Controlled Clinical Trials CEO, PhD Tove Holm-Larsen, The Right Value Story |
| 13:30-14:15 | How to make results from clinical trials relevant to clinical practice Professor DM Henry McQuay, Department of Clinical Anaesthetics, University of Oxford |
| 14:15-14:45 | Break |
| 14:45-15:30 | How to translate results from clinical trials into expected benefits for the individual patient Professor DM Henry McQuay, Department of Clinical Anaesthetics, University of Oxford |
| 15:30-16:00 | Which informations on new drugs are relevant for The Institute of Rational Pharmacotherapy Director, MD, Steffen Thirstrup, The Institute of Rational Pharmacotherapy, Danish Medicines Agency |
| 16:00-16:30 | Which informations on new drugs are relevant for GP To be announced |
Please click here to see the programme in pdf-format.
Organized on behalf of the Drug Research Academy by Hanne Rolighed Christensen and Claus Møldrup and Lona Christrup, both Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: llc(at)farma.ku.dk.
The participation is free of charge and everybody is welcome. Registration is not required beforehand.
