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Workshop--Understanding the Benefits and Risk of Pharmaceuticals: Agenda Print   Email


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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

7:45am: Breakfast

8:15am: Opening Remarks
Workshop co-chairs

  • Steven Galson, MD, MPH
    Director, CDER, FDA
  • Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD
    Former President and COO, Abbott Laboratories

Topic 1: What general frameworks are used to assess risk/benefit in non-pharmaceutical industries or organizations? (20 minute presentations)

8:45am: Understanding the psychology of risk/benefit assessment
Discussion Leader: Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD

  • Paul Slovic, PhD
    President, Decision Research
  • Peter Ubel, MD
    Director of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
  • Sheila Jasanoff, JD, PhD
    Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

9:45am: Discussion

10:05am: Break

10:20am: Assessing the effectiveness of risk/benefit algorithms from other industries
Discussion Leader: Steven Galson, MD, MPH

  • Dennis Paustenbach, PhD
    President, Chemrisk
  • Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS
    Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
  • Joshua T. Cohen, PhD
    Lecturer, Tufts New England Medical Center
  • Richard Hall, PhD
    Vice President, Science and Technology (retired), McCormick & Co., Inc.

11:40am: Discussion

12:00pm: Lunch

12:45pm: What are the challenges in effectively educating people about risk/benefit decisions?
Discussion Leader: Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD

  • Hal Sox, MD
    Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Isaac Lipkus, PhD
    Associate Research Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke
  • Steven Woloshin, MD, MS
    Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth

2:05pm: Discussion

Topic 2: How do we currently assess risk/benefit ratios for pharmaceuticals? (20 minute presentations)

2:25pm: Unique challenges for pharmaceuticals
Discussion Leader: Steven Galson, MD, MPH

  • Steven Galson, MD, MPH
    Director, CDER, FDA
  • Brian Strom, MD, MPH
    Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania

3:05pm: Discussion

3:30pm: Break

3:45pm: Advantages and drawbacks of the current system
Discussion Leaders: Tim Franson, MD and Sandra Kweder, MD

  • Peter Barton Hutt, LLB, LLM
    Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
  • Peter A. Tollman, PhD
    Senior Vice President and Director, The Boston Consulting Group
  • David Slavin, MD
    Executive Director, World Wide Development Business Innovations Unit, Pfizer
  • Brian Strom, MD, MPH
    Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania

5:05pm: Discussion
 

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

8:00am: Breakfast

Topic 3: How should we evaluate the risks and benefits of pharmaceuticals? (20 minute presentations)

Charge to the panel: What are the steps to adopt these new approaches for the drug review system? What are the areas of agreement? What additional work needs to be done?

8:30am: Goals/objectives of future systems
Discussion Leader: Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD

9:30am: Discussion

9:50am: Applicable systems from other industries
Discussion Leader: Steven Galson, MD, MPH

  • Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH
    Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
  • John Graham, PhD
    Former Administrator OMB, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

10:30am: Discussion

11:00am: Break

11:15am: What specific methodologies from other industries or academia are adaptable to the drug review system?
Discussion LeaderS: Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD and Sandra Kweder, MD

  • Alan Garber, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medicine, Stanford
  • Louis Garrison, PhD
    Professor of Pharmacy, University of Washington

11:55am: Discussion

12:20pm: Lunch

1:40pm: How should we continuously update risk/benefit information with post-marketing data?
Discussion LeaderS: Mark Berger, MD and Paul Seligman, MD, MPH

  • J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD
    Chief Executive Officer, Indiana Health Information Exchange, Senior Investigator, Regenstrief

2:00pm: Discussion

2:30pm: Break

2:40pm: Presentation of Zometa as a case example

  • Larry Lesko, Ph.D.
    Director, Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics, FDA

3:00pm: Discuss how new approaches could work with the case example (Zometa) (15 minute presentations)
Discussion Leader: Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD

  • Lisa Schwartz, MD, MS
    Associate Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth
  • Kevin A. Schulman, MD
    Professor of Medicine, Duke
  • Mark Fendrick, MD
    Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

4:00pm: Discussion

4:35pm: Next Steps

5:30pm: Adjourn

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