Meeting global health challenges: Karolinska President discusses how Clinical Pharmacologists can help

The 14th EACPT Congress was held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Keynote opening speaker at the EACPT Congress Professor Ole Petter Ottersen discusses how Clinical Pharmacologists in Europe and beyond can help to meet current global health challenges. In particular he notes that 14 of the 17 current WHO strategic development goals are relevant to safe, effective and equitable use of medicines. He also stresses the need to be aware of and address 'sticky institutions', whether governmental, NGO or commercial as barriers to improving global health policy and its implementation.

Professor Ottersen chaired the international Lancet Commission that studied the political determinants of global health inequalities (The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health).

Discussants  
Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, President, Karolinska Institute

Professor Donald Singer: co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the EACPT.

The next EACPT Congress
The next EACPT biennial congress will be held in Athens. The programme will provide an international scientific and educational forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, including personalised pharmacotherapy. See more on our website.

Joining the EACPT
Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member.

Membership benefits include:

* Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* Online subscription to the EACPT Official journal: the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
* Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members
* Active involvement in EACPT 

25th Anniversary
The EACPT was founded 25 years ago and now includes as members all major national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth. Find out more about the EACPT ...

Future EACPT Congresses

2021  Athens

2023  Rotterdam

2025  Helsinki

Updates on the EACPT from Athens

Parthenon, Athens

The EACPT Executive Committee is meeting in Athens from 5^th – 6^th April 2019 to plan for future activities of the EACPT.

Main topics for discussion include

-       final details for the upcoming 2019 EACPT Congress to be held in Stockholm from 29th June - 2nd July in 2019

-       early planning for the next EACPT Congress, to be held in Athens in 2021, from 26^th – 29^th June

-       updates from EACPT Research, Regulatory and Education working groups

-       EACPT awards

The next EACPT Congress will be held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 

Early bird registration deadline - 10th April 2019.  Register online for the 2019 EACPT Congress in Stockholm

The Congress will address Tomorrow's Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre - 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.

EACPT committee in Athens by Hippocrates statue. 

Back row: Per Ankaer, MCI (Denmark), Pierre Marquet (France), Vangelis Manolopoulos (Greece), Markus Zeitlinger (Austria), Janne Backman (Finland), Caroline Samer (Switzerland)  Donald Singer (UK),  Michial van Agtmael (Netherlands), Achim Schmidtko (Germany). Front row:  Jamie Coleman (UK), Tabassome Simon (France), Ylva Böttiger (Sweden), Arantxa Sancho Lopez (Spain), Gerard Rongen (Netherlands).

The Congress Reception on the evening of Saturday 29th June, will be held at Stockholm City Hall, the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet.

The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health and clinical pharmacology.

Professor Urs Meyer from Switzerland will give the 2019 EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture based on his work on individual variation in drug response.

Further awards will be presented, including Scientific Awards, including Young Investigator, and EACPT Education Awards.

Around 60 invited speakers are expected from throughout Europe and beyond. Congress keynote lectures, sessions and themes will include:

• Advanced therapies
• Ageing populations
• Anti-coagulation
• Anti-microbial resistance
• Beating cancer
• Chronic disease
• Clinical drug research of tomorrow
• Clinical pharmacologists versus computers
• Clinical use of pharmacokinetics
• Closing the money gap  
• Computers vs. clinical pharmacologists
• Deprescribing
• Drug-drug interaction
• Drug regulation in the 2020s
• Drug utilisation
• EACPT meets Asian Societies      
• Ethics in clinical research
• Global Health
• How to become a clinical pharmacologist
• How to make an oral presentation
• How to measure drug exposure
• How to measure drug use
• How to perform a health economic study
• Inter-professional exchange for better drug treatment
• Mental health
• Misuse of medicines
• Patient empowerment
• Polypharmacy: joint symposium with the Korean Society (KSCPT)
•  medicine: EPHAR-EACPT joint symposium
• Preparing tomorrow's prescribers
• Prescribing and deprescribing
• Publish or perish
• Rare diseases
• Targeting small populations  
• The critically ill patient
• Treating ageing populations 
• Treating disease in children

Major awards to be presented at the Stockholm Congress include the EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award, the biennial EACPT Scientific Award for best publication on a clinical pharmacology or therapeutic theme, Young Investigator awards jointly with EPHAR, and the EACPT Education Award.

Opportunities for EACPT Associate Members include
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Associate Members
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities 

Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT 

Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

The EACPT was founded in 1993 and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Updates on the EACPT from the UK

The EACPT Executive Committee is meeting in early September 2018 in Birmingham in the UK West Midlands to plan for future activities. This coincides with the latest EACPT Focus meeting: Innovations in CPT Education - which is being held at the University of Birmingham from 7-8 September 2018. Delegates for the Focus meeting are expected from a wide range of countries, including Finland, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Spain, Romania, Malta and the UK.

EACPT EC in Birmingham

Key matters for discussion by the EACPT EC included:

1. Future EACPT Congresses - the next is due to be held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The Congress will address Tomorrow's Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre - 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.
The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health and clinical pharmacology.

Congress sessions and themes will include:

• Advanced therapies
• Chronic disease
• Clinical pharmacologists versus computers
• Closing the money gap  
• Drug regulation in the 2020's
• EACPT meets Asian Societies      
• EPHAR-EACPT joint symposium on personalised medicine
• Ethics in clinical research
• Global Health
• How to become a clinical pharmacologist
• How to measure drug exposure
• How to measure drug use
• How to perform a health economic study
• Interprofessional exchange for better drug treatment
• Misuse of medicines
• Patient empowerment
• Preparing tomorrow's prescribers
• Prescribing and deprescribing
• Targeting small populations  
• The critically ill patient
• Treating ageing populations 
• Treating cancer
• Treating children

2. New EACPT Awards for Best Scientific Paper in the previous 12 months on a clinical pharmacology or therapeutics theme. Authors may be from any discipline and do not have to be members of the EACPT. These awards will be launched in September 2018 and awarded initially every 2 months (6 times a year) from November 2018. 

Award winners will receive a free one year Individual Associate Membership (IAM) of the EACPT. Winners who are already EACPT IAMs will receive a 100€ prize. Papers which receive an EACPT Scientific Paper Award will be eligible to be considered for the biennial EACPT Scientific Award.

3. EACPT working groups on Education, Research, Young Professionals, and Regulation and Ethics.

4. New EACPT web series on Meet the Clinical Pharmacologists

5. Opportunities from links with international organisations such as the European Medicines Agency, IUPHAR, EPHAR and UEM|

6. Opportunities for Individual Associate Members including:
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Associate Members
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities  

Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT  

The EACPT Executive Committee meets 6 monthly, with regular additional discussions by teleconference on key EACPT strategy and activities.

Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:
- 2019 Stockholm
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

The EACPT was founded in 1993 - 25 years ago - and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Special Award for services to the EACPT for Michael Orme

The EACPT presented a Special Award for services to the EACPT for Professor Michael Orme. 

The Award was accepted on his behalf at the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva by EACPT co-founder Professor Folke Sjöqvist. 

Michael Orme  qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and King’s College Hospital in London in 1965. He trained in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was appointed as senior lecturer in clinical pharmacology at Liverpool University Medical School in 1975 and was promoted to a personal chair in 1984. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Liverpool from 1991- 1996.  

He co-edited the 2012 manifesto from WHO, CIOMS and IUPHAR on Clinical Pharmacology in Health Care, Teaching and Research. 

He worked with European clinical pharmacology colleagues in the late nineteen eighties to develop a European approach through the WHO European office in Copenhagen. This led to a meeting in Verona, Italy in 1993 to found the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT). Michael was the first honorary secretary of EACPT from 1995-1999 and he was re-elected to this post for 1999-2003. He was also chairman of the Education Sub-committee of EACPT from 1997 to 2003.  He was elected chairman of EACPT for the period 2003-2007 and remained on the Executive Committee of EACPT as past chairman until 2011. 

In these roles Michael Orme brought his interests in European and global efforts of clinical pharmacology as a medical speciality devoted to the rational use of drugs, to growing EACPT into a major international organisation representing all clinical pharmacology societies in Europe.  

The Special Award was presented at the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva 28th - 31st August 2013. 

The EACPT was founded 20 years ago and now includes all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Official EACPT journal: Clinical Therapeutics 

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