Understanding PhV today – a basic training course on the principles and practice of global PhV for those working in drug safety.
2-4 Dec 2019
& 22-24 Jun 2020 , 7-9 Dec 2020
GBP 1,849 1,549 *
EUR 2,589 2,169 *
USD 2,884 2,416 *
* When you book before 24 Oct
This course aims to provide basic training for all those concerned with pharmacovigilance.
New entrants as well as experienced operators in drug safety monitoring will benefit from the mixture of scientific knowledge and practical guidance. In addition, detailed information will be provided on regulatory developments in pharmacovigilance in Europe, the USA and Japan.
Key topics to be addressed include:
Anybody involved and interested in the daily practice of pharmacovigilance, including pharmaceutical physicians and those working in:
Principles of pharmacovigilance and data resources
Risk management and risk minimisation: basic principles
Causality assessment: clinical diagnosis of adverse events
Discussion session
The current regulatory framework and its global impact
European post-marketing pharmacovigilance regulations
Overview of requirements which will include:
Proactive pharmacovigilance pre- and post-marketing
Discussion session
Risk-benefit assessment
Discussion session
Clinical trial ADR reporting requirements
Discussion session
Pharmacoepidemiological studies – basic designs, strengths, weaknesses and examples
Periodic reporting – PSURs and PBRERs
Discussion session
Drug surveillance in countries outside Europe
Practicalities of signal detection
Examples of pharmacoepidemiological studies used in risk management
Practicalities of risk management
A real-world example of the development of a successful EU risk management plan:
- Requirements of risk management plans from an industry point of view
- How to write a successful risk management plan
- Reporting results of outcomes of activities in the risk management plan
- Updating a risk management plan
Practical pharmacovigilance workshop
A practical case study with valuable hands-on experience:
- Handling an important safety alert from regulators
- Assessment of risk
- Determining measures to respond to previously unidentified risks
- Continuing assessment and communication of risk-benefit
Saad Shakir (2-4 Dec 2019, 22-24 Jun 2020, 7-9 Dec 2020)
Saad Shakir is Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK. He qualified in Medicine in 1976 and worked in hospital medicine for eleven years before moving to general practice. He has been working in pharmacovigilance & pharmacoepidemiology for more than a decade, initially at the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) in the UK then at the international pharmaceutical industry. He was appointed as the Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) in Southampton in 1999. The DSRU is an academic Unit associated with the University of Portsmouth. At the DSRU he leads a research team with an active programme for monitoring and studying the safety of medicines. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK. He continues to practice clinical medicine part-time. He has worked and advised on many drug safety issues including product withdrawals and major safety hazards. He is an author of many publications in scientific journals on pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology and is a member of the editorial boards of the journals of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. He has led, co-ordinated and participated in many postgraduate educational and training programmes. He supervises postgraduate students for higher degrees and has been involved with a number of international initiatives to promote and develop pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
John Parkinson (2-4 Dec 2019, 22-24 Jun 2020, 7-9 Dec 2020)
John Parkinson is a Data and Pharmaco-epidemiology Consultant having recently retired as the Director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) at the MHRA. CPRD is the English NHS data and interventional research service. CPRD developed out of the GPRD and the NIHR Research Capability Programme. The CPRD provides data and research services around Drug safety/outcomes and risk-benefit. He joined the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in September 2005 to run the GPRD (General Practice Research Database). He gained his PhD in Medical Biochemistry in 1972 and joined the Pharmaceutical Industry that year. From 1972 to 1996 he has worked in the Industry or as a Consultant and from 1989 in conjunction with the University of Dundee. In 1996 he moved from working on Medical Education Projects to work at MEMO, a Pharmacoepidemiology Research group, at the University. He has been instrumental in enabling record linkage of NHS data and of its wide use in the many aspects of pharmacoepidemiology as well as providing input to the pharmaceutical industry on studies and types of studies that companies may find helpful in their quest to make available effective and safe medicines. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine as well as a Livery member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London
Glyn Belcher (2-4 Dec 2019, 22-24 Jun 2020, 7-9 Dec 2020)
Dr Glyn Belcher has over 25 years experience in clinical development and drug safety in the pharmaceutical industry. He qualified in medicine from Oxford and Cambridge and received his PhD in neuropharmacology from the latter university. After a number of years in hospital medicine he joined Schering and worked in clinical research in the UK affiliate before moving to headquarters in Berlin, first as head of cardiovascular clinical research and later as head of a new safety department covering clinical development activities. He then became Director of Clinical Drug Safety and EU QPPV for Takeda Europe and a global safety officer of Takeda headquarters in Osaka. His most recent position in the industry was Vice President of Drug Safety and Risk Management for all ex-USA territories of Biogen Idec and EU QPPV for the company. He now has his own consultancy company, PV Consultancy Ltd, and works with a number of companies in the areas of clinical development and drug safety, as well as undertaking an increasing commitment to teaching and training in these areas.
William Richardson (2-4 Dec 2019, 7-9 Dec 2020)
Bill Richardson qualified in medicine in 1980, and subsequently trained as an anaesthetist. He took up his first post in the pharmaceutical industry as a Medical Adviser in 1987. The next 15 years were spent in the industry in Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, and Pharmacovigilance. He joined the Medicines Control Agency (now MHRA) in 2002 and had responsibility for monitoring the safety of “black triangle” products; signal generation and assessment; pharmacovigilance assessment for CHM, PRAC and CHMP; assessment of licence variations; assessment of Periodic Safety Update Reports and Risk Management Plans; and assessment of advertising. He left the MHRA in 2014 to become a pharmacovigilance consultant for NDA Group.
Ian Douglas (2-4 Dec 2019, 22-24 Jun 2020, 7-9 Dec 2020)
Professor Ian Douglas is an epidemiologist, currently funded by an MRC Methodology Fellowship. He initially studied physiology and completed a PhD in Manchester. Since then he has spent several years at the UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency and in the pharmaceutcial industry investigating adverse effects of drugs – both in clinical trials and post-marketing. He completed the MSc in epidemiology at LSHTM in 2005. He is the course organiser for the LSHTM Certificate Course in Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance.
His research interests are primarily in pharmacoepidemiology, and in particular, how we can use large primary care databases to investigate the effects of drugs – both harmful and beneficial. He is exploring methodologies to minimise some of the biases inherent in the research of drug effects, and main current areas of interest are case-only approaches to study design and the use of propensity scores. He is also a member of the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group.
Shelley Gandhi (2-4 Dec 2019, 22-24 Jun 2020, 7-9 Dec 2020)
Shelley Gandhi joined NDA Group AB in 2012 and previously was with the MHRA (UK Regulatory Authority) for 19 years. She has extensive knowledge of all European regulatory processes relating to monitoring the safety of licensed medicinal products and ancillary devices and has investigated possible risks and has taken appropriate actions to minimise risk to public health through both European and National Committees.
She was Vigilance and Intelligence Research Group Unit Manager where she led a team of 30 whose primary role is to carry out risk assessment. In her final year at the MHRA, she mainly focussed on delivering the new pharmacovigilance legislation in Europe and ensuring the MHRA would be ready.
She is currently using this regulatory experience to work with industry to ensure they implement the new pharmacovigilance legislation.
Seema Jaitly (2-4 Dec 2019)
Dr Seema Jaitly qualified in Medicine from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1992 and worked in hospital medicine for four years. She has worked in the pharma industry for over 18 years at CROs and companies spanning clinical research, medical affairs, pharmacovigilance and the EU QPPV role. In 2010 she founded Essjay Solutions to offer pharmacovigilance services, consultancy and contracting services.
She is currently studying for an MSc in epidemiology with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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“Workshop is very good because you have to USE the knowledge you gain. Interaction between speaker and attendees is very good too!”
Anna Bøgelund Møller, Pharmacovigilance scientist, Larix
“The course gave overall understanding on pharmacovigilance. The presentations were clear and with helpful examples. Interaction between participants and speakers was great. All the speakers have good experiences and knowledge.”
Teodora Crowe-Wijasa, Consultant Medical Safety Physician, DADA Consultancy BV
“Obviously all speakers have huge experiences within the PV processes. ”
Haiping Ma, Senior Safety Quality Professional, Novo Nordisk A/S
“Expert presenters with engaging and thoughtful presentations that allow plenty of time for questions and discussion. All very knowledgeable and engaging.”
Sam Allen, Drug Safety Operations Medic, Mundipharma Research Ltd.
“Co-ordinators were great, material provided was concise and well presented. Time for breaks and lunches were spot on. Most of the speakers were excellent. I have 18 months experience in PV and I felt like the course was at my level. This course is not suitable for beginners. ”
Bhupesh Panchal, Drug Safety & Information Officer, Wockhardt UK Limited
“Amazing speakers with a wealth of knowledge and experience.”
Dalal Abdulaziz, Regulatory Manager, Al Hafez Trading Est
“My overall opinion is very positive, I am not disappointed at all. Speakers did a very good job - being approachable, giving examples, sharing his/her professional experiences, etc. Very knowledgeable speakers with relevant experience.”
Vania Horta, Drug Safety & Information Officer , Wockhardt UK Limited
“A greatly organised and informative course given by driven and well informed speakers.”
Willem van Lierop, Senior Drug Safety employee, ApotheekZorg
“Exactly what we need. Very good. ”
Gabriel Georgescu, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Ewopharma AG
“The course was very useful and interesting to me personally ”
Darya Pospíšilová, Pharmacovigilance Project Manager, Arriello
“Enjoyed the course. Although quite intense in the number of topics, it was well organized and stuck only to the important things. Would recommend and am thinking about continuing to The advanced PV one.”
Marta Telebar, PV Project Specialist, Arriello s.r.o.
“All the speakers are knowledgable and have good experience ”
Negin Goudarz, Pharmacovigilance Associate , Emas Pharma Ltd
“Very nice and informative course, very satisfied ”
Birgitte Wolf, Senior Safety Specialist , LEO Pharma
“The course was well structured and covered all important aspects of PV. Everything was presented in clear presentations with helpful examples. Interactions between participants and speakers was easy and helpful.”
Birte Hofmann, Director Pharmacokinetics Expert, Bayer AG
“I was happy about the location, the presenters and the organizers for this course”
Abdullah Al Dawood, QPPV and Regulatory Affairs Supervisor , Apotex Saudi Arabia
“Found the content delivered from the speakers very good.”
Priya Cutts, Report Specialist, Procter and Gamble Technical Centres Ltd
“High level training with great speakers, very good welcome and accommodation”
Camille Soulet, Vigilances Training Officer, Pierre Fabre
“I feel this course gives a good amount of information and is presented well. The speakers are very knowledgeable ”
Lee Rolfe, , Actavis plc
“Very passionate speakers”
Sabrina Montante, Safety Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
“Well organised and the speakers were very knowledgeable”
Claire McLaughlin, Drug Safety Specialist, Kyowa Kirin International
“I think the course and its content were very well run and I would be happy to attend another course by Management Forum”
Lee Rolfe, , Actavis plc
“Excellent. Very good speakers and interactions.”
Susanne Mathias, Senior GCP Advisor Specialist, Novo Nordisk A/S
“It was very good, I had a great time”
Camille Soulet, Vigilances Training Officer, Pierre Fabre
“Overall I found the course to be very informative. Not only did I learn new information, but it helped me realise how much information I have picked up through my short time working in the industry and it reinforced this knowledge. I liked that there were a number of different speakers from different backgrounds who effectively cover different aspects of the topic in depth.”
Sarah Bruce, Pharmacovigilance Officer, Kyowa Kirin
“Very nice course which provides good instruction into PV and overall picture of PV requirements/obligations”
Oresta Makaruha Stegic, FDF RA manager, xellia
“It was a comprehensive, professional course, well organized and beneficial”
Liron Weisman, Pharmacovigilance Compliance Associate, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd
“Informative and well-organised but quite heavy going in parts”
Gemma Anthony, PV & Regulatory Administrator, Meda Pharma Ltd