Clinical Pharmacologists from Switzerland and Finland at the EACPT Madrid Congress

The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) was held in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstractswere accepted from 66 countries and form all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. The 54 oral presentations were eligible for awards for the best talk. 

Roseline Ing Lorenzini, Maria Paile-Hyuvarinen, Helina Kahmamarija, Marija Bosilkovska and Flavia Storelli

Watch the video with Clinical Pharmacologists in training from Switzerland and Finland discussing their interests at the EACPT Madrid Congress.



Flavia Storelli obtained a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Pharmacy in 2013 from the University of Geneva. Since 2014, she has been a PhD candidate in Clinical Pharmacology at Geneva University Hospitals. Her main interest is the in vitro study of drug-drug interactions regarding CYP450 enzymes and hepatic transporters in the HepaRG cell line.

She studies in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Geneva University Hospitals. 

Dr Roseline-Kuntheavy Ing Lorenzini has been since 2014 non-MD clinical pharmacologist. She graduated as a pharmacist in 2003, then did a MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in hospital pharmacy from 2004 to 2006, followed by a PhD thesis in clinical pharmacology which ended in 2011 on the use of paracetamol and NSAIDs in combination.  She has worked since 2011 as a pharmacist project manager in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Geneva Hospitals. Her interests are: TDM, pharmacogenetics, and drug-drug interactio,ns more particularly in anti-retroviral therapies.

Helinä Kahma graduated as a pharmacist (MSc Pharm) in 2014 from the University of Helsinki and started her PhD in clinical pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in January this year. Her research topic is drug-drug interactions based on mechanism-based inhibition of CYP450 enzymes. Her main interest is in enzyme- and transporter-based DDIs.
 

Communicating risk to health professionals and patients

The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) is underway in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstracts have been accepted from 66 countries and form all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. the 54 oral presentations are eligible for an award for the best talk. 
 
During one of the main panel discussions at the EACPT Congress in Madrid,  communicating risk to health professionals and patients was discussed by Barbara Rath (Germany), Almath Spooner (Ireland), Frederic Bouder (The Netherlands), Cristina Cabrita (Portugal) and Dolores Montero (Spain).

Listen to the panel discussing challenges when communicating risk, current initiatives in risk communication, risk perception and related issues.

More on the speaker panel

Almath Spooner is the Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Lead at the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), Dublin, Ireland, where she has held a number of assessment and management roles since first joining the National Competent Authority (formerly the IMB).  Dr. Spooner has been the Vice Chair of the European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee since its establishment in 2012. She is also the PRAC Member for Ireland. She was formerly a member of the CHMP’s Pharmacovigilance Working Party.
Dr. Spooner is a member of the Heads of Medicines Agencies’ European Risk Management Strategy Facilitation Group, a core member of the EMA’s Incident Review Network and has represented the EU at the International Conference on Harmonisation. Dr. Spooner is a pharmacist by training with a PhD in pharmacy and additional postgraduate qualifications in statistics and pharmaceutical medicine. Before joining the IMB, she had experience in clinical and academic pharmacy.
Link to the HPRA website:   http://www.hpra.ie 

Cristina Cabrita is a Senior Project officer with DECO Proteste, a Non-Governmental Organization interested in consumer defence, health and public health. She trained as a pharmacist at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Sul in Portugal. She also has a Masters in Public Health from the National School of Public health in Lisbon. She Since 2009, she has been a member of the expert panel of the EMA-European Medicine Agency, for reviews of information on medicinal products. She has also been an observer on the EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Working Group.Since  February  2014 she has been a member of the expert health  team for BEUC (Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs: the European Bureau for Consumer Unions). 

 

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The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) is underway in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstracts have been accepted from 65 countries and from all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. the 54 oral presentations are eligible for an award for the best talk. 

Listen to Caridad Pontes (Barcelona) and Marie Besson (Geneva) discussing implications for regulators, clinical trialists and patients of increasing recognition of variable patient responses to their medicines.

EACPT early morning run at 2015 Madrid Congress

The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) is underway in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstracts have been accepted from 66 countries and form all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. the 54 oral presentations are eligible for an award for the best talk. 

See below a short video and photos of delegates you took part in a 6.30am early morning run during there time in Madrid for the Congress

2015 EACPT Lifetime Award winner Michel Eichelbaum discusses pharmacogenetics at the Madrid Congress

Professor Tabassome Simon with Professor Michel Eichelbaum

The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) is underway in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstracts have been accepted from 66 countries and form all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. the 54 oral presentations are eligible for an award for the best talk. 

Hear new EACPT chair Professor Tabassome Simon in discussion with 2015 EACPT  Lifetime Award winner Professor Michel Eichelbaum about the importance and some of the challenges of applying pharmacogenetics to clinical practice.




Michel Eichelbaum is one of the most cited pharmacologists in in the world. He has published nearly 500 articles, reviews and book chapters and numerous abstracts, and his work has been cited over 25,000 times by other authors. His primary research interest has been the pharmacogenetics of drug metabolizing enzymes and transporter proteins. He was also one of the pioneers of studying various aspects of the stereochemistry of drugs, the use of stable isotopes in clinical pharmacology and intestinal metabolism and transport of drugs. 

In 1975, he discovered a genetic polymorphism in the oxidation of the antiarrhythmic and oxytocic drug, sparteine, which later became known as CYP2D6 polymorphism. This is considered his single most important scientific discovery. Later, he became involved in research on factors involved in the regulation of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters with special emphasis on nuclear receptors. This basic research is supplemented by clinical studies in oncology with special emphasis on breast cancer treatment, HIV, psychiatry and organ transplantation in which the consequences of genetic polymorphisms of these proteins for drug effects and toxicity are explored.

He was born in Leipzig on 19 May 1941. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg between 1960 and 1966, and he defended his doctoral thesis at this University in 1968. During 1966 to 1968, he was an intern in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Between 1968 and1976, he was a resident in Internal Medicine at University Hospitals of Giessen and Bonn. From 1976-1985, he was attending physician and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the Department of Medicine, University of Bonn.

He is a specialist in both Clinical Pharmacology and in Internal Medicine. From 1985 and 21 years onwards, he was the Director of the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany. Simultaneously, he was Professor and Chairman of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Tübingen, and in 2001 he became Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

During his career, Michel Eichelbaum has obtained several Research Fellowships. During 1970-1971, he worked in the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart and Lung Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, together with Drs. B.B. Brodie and J.R. Gillette. From 1973-1974, he was working at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, together with Professor Folke Sjöqvist, and from 1995-1996 he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, University of Adelaide, Australia. Michel Eichelbaum has received numerous awards and honours. This year, he was honoured with the Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award in Therapeutics from the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He is the third European to receive this prize. 

The EACPT was founded 22 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.

Trainee Clinical Pharmacologists in Madrid for the 12th EACPT Congress

The 12th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (http://eacpt.eu) is being held in Madrid from 27th to 30th June 2015. Over 500 abstracts have been accepted from 66 countries and form all 5 continents for presentation as e-posters and oral presentations. the 54 oral presentations are eligible for an award for the best talk. 

At a pre-congress session, Clinical Pharmacologists in training met to discuss professional and training issues and ways in which involvement with the EACPT may be helpful.

Lucio Ghiglione, Alexandra Pelaez Rivas and colleagues

Petru Micliuc and colleagues

Delegates from France, UK, Portugal, Denmark and South Korea