The
13th Paneuropean Congress of
European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, organised in Maastricht 27-29 February 2008, was completed with a great success.
The program had a lot of seminars, conferences and posters presentations. Here you can find some photographic snapshots from the congress (
you can click onto photos to see in big size) and the titles of seminars and conferences.
Keynote Presentations
- 'The role and added value of the hospital pharmacist in health care: beyond Napoleon’s buttons’, Professor Hubert G. Leufkens, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) and the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB), The Netherlands
- ‘The importance of the hospital Pharmacist as a member of the clinical pharmaceutic team’ Professor Lars Heslet, National University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ‘The Role and added value of the hospital pharmacist in improving the safety of medicines in health care’ Mr Donald Hughes, Conway & Denbighshire NHS Trust, Rhyl, United Kingdom
Seminars1:
Handling gene therapy drugs in EuropeSpeaker A: Dr Nicola Stoner, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, UK
Speaker B: Dr Andras Vermes, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam,The Netherlands
2:
Hospital pharmacies make medicines availableSpeaker A: Mr Reinout Schellekens, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Speaker B: Professor Jan Raaijmakers, GlaxoSmithKline / Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
3:
Pharmacovigilance: added value of hospital pharmacistsSpeaker A: Dr Kees van Grootheest, Dutch Pharmacovigilance Centre LAREB, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Speaker B: Professor Gordon Schiff, Cook County Hospital, Chilcago, IL, USA
4:
Measuring the added value of hospital pharmacy processesSpeaker A: Dr Antonio Melo Gouveia, National Oncology Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
Speaker B: Dr Marianne Ivey, The Health Alliance, Cincinnati OH, USA
Speaker C: Pieter Knoester, Rijnland Ziekenhuis, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
5:
The value of the hospital pharmacist in the preparation and distribution of radiopharmaceuticalsSpeaker A: Professor Per Hartvig, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Speaker B: Dr Alistair Millar, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
6:
The role of the hospital pharmacist in psychiatrySpeaker A: Dawn Price, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, Cherry Knowle Hospital Ryhope, Sunderland, UK
Speaker B: Elisabeth Eide, Haukeland Hospital Pharmacy, Bergen, Norway
Speaker C: Hans Mulder, Wilhelmina Hospital, Assen, The Netherlands
Speaker D: Francisco Martínez-Granados, Alicante General Hospital, Alicante, Spain
7:
The value of the hospital pharmacist in pediatric care Speaker A: Mrs Rowena McArtney, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Speaker B: Mrs Nathalie Seigneuret, Paediatric Medicines and Orphan Drugs Sector, Pre-authorisation Evaluation of Medicines for Human Use Unit, London, United Kingdom
8:
Patient safety in EuropeSpeaker A: Dr Susan Proulx, Med-E.R.R.S., Huntington Valley PA, USA
Speaker B: Mr Brian Bjørn, Hvidovre Hospital, Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
9:
The value of the hospital pharmacist in the prescribing processSpeaker A: René Groulsch, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Speaker B: Nicola Wake, Nicola Wake, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
10:
IT systems for the use of the hospital pharmacy: a showcaseSpeaker A: Dr Frits Elferink, Royal Dutch Association for the advancement of Pharmacy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Speaker B: Jenneke Wijbenga, Royal Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Speaker C: Dr Mirjam Rommers, Leiden University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands
Speaker D: Mr Jan Bruin, National IT Institute for Healthcare in the Netherlands (NICTIZ, The Hague, The Netherlands
11:
National delegates seminar: e-Health solutions in hospital pharmacy Speaker A: Mrs Inger Bjeldbak-Olesen, Hospital Pharmcy Roskilde, Denmark
Speaker B: Professor Ann Jacklin, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
12:
Collaboration and standards for small hospital pharmacies Speaker A: Dr Marie Rancakova, Czech Republic
Speaker B: Mrs Gitte Søndergaard Nielsen, Næstved Hospital Pharmacy, Næstved
Satellite Symposia1:
Breaking new grounds in i.v, iron Therapy, VIFOR INTERNATIONAL
2:
Drug-Eluting Beads: A new therapy for Hepatic Tumours. Clinical and Pharmaceutical assessment, BIOCOMPATIBLES/TERUMO
3:
Quality and safety in pharmaceutical preparation of cytotoxic drugs, BERNER
4:
Biogenerics: from promise to reality in Europe, TEVA
5:
SafeChemo: ePrescription and Automation for a Safe Management of Cytostatics, B.BRAUN
6:
Navigating Risk Management, IDIS
7:
GMP Compliant Qualified Software in the Hospital Pharmacy – Supplier Supported Software Validation in Practice, CATO SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
8:
The biopharmaceuticals revolution: latest advances and challenges for hospital pharmacists, AMGEN
9:
Round table: Biosimilars in clinical practice – The challenges for Hospital Pharmacists, AMGEN
Dear Leonidas,
Just notice that my post is a "live post", notes taken during the meeting, so they are not easy reading.
Many thanks to provide this great and clear introduction! ;-)