New Year plans for the EACPT

We wish all our national society and individual members all the best for the festive season and for 2016.

The New Year will see further major activities for the EACPT. These include:

The next EACPT Focus Meeting will be held from 6th to 9th October, 2016 in partnership with the Croatian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The theme of the meeting is “How to Assess Medicines from Research to Clinical Practice".

The main objectives of this Focus Meeting are to increase awareness, knowledge and use of critical assessment pillars for medicinal products in everyday clinical practice in order to improve healthcare outcomes in affordable manner.

Planning is already well underway for the next biennial EACPT Congress, to be held in Prague from 23^rd – 27^th June in 2017. As part of Congress preparations, the next meeting of the EACPT Executive Committee will be in May in Prague.

Following the launch of a new individual associate membership for the EACPT, further working groups have been launched, complementing the established EACPT Education Working Group.These working groups provide excellent opportunities to become actively involved in the running of the EACPT.

EACPT Working Groups:

• Young Clinical Pharmacologists
• Education
• Ethics
• Regulatory 
• Research  

Click here to apply online for EACPT individual membership. 
 
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:

• Active involvement in the EACPT  
• Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings 
• Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings 
• Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics
•  Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members

The EACPT was founded 23 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.