ISoP Mid-Year Symposium
In pharmacovigilance, various scientific disciplines such as epidemiology, (clinical) pharmacology, and medical science are necessary to monitor the safe use of drugs.
Improving information capture for safer use of medicines
In collaboration with Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC)
14-15 May 2025
Uppsala, Sweden
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Introduction
Scientific Committee members:
Niklas Norén (Chair) (Uppsala Monitoring Centre), Andrew Bate (GSK, UK), Ghita Benabdallah (Centre Anti Poison et de Pharmacovigilance du Maroc, Morocco), Linda Härmark (Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb), and Björn Wettermark (Uppsala University, Sweden).
The ISoP mid-year symposium 2025 will be hosted by Uppsala Monitoring Centre on 14-15 May, in Uppsala, Sweden.
The theme of this year’s meeting is Improving information capture for safer use of medicines. Its focus is how to obtain complete and detailed enough information regarding adverse events to answer relevant questions in pharmacovigilance – and when appropriate to bring useful insights back to patients and healthcare professionals.
Topics may include
- Types and quality of data necessary to conduct effective pharmacovigilance
- Untapped data sources that may enhance pharmacovigilance and what would be required to make use of them
- Expectations on information regarding safe use of medicines from patients and healthcare professionals
- Level of details that patients and healthcare professionals are prepared to share and efforts to safeguard confidentiality
- Initiatives to reduce the effort for patients and health professionals to share their experience and capture relevant information in support of causality assessment and other analyses regarding possible adverse effects
- Technological advancement related to improved information capture and insights from adjacent fields such as medical informatics regarding effective human-computer interaction and more
- The relative merits of free text narrative descriptions versus structured data in pharmacovigilance
The mid-year symposium is aimed at pharmacovigilance professionals and scientists with a domain interest, working in regulatory, industry, or academic settings. It also welcomes individuals working in clinical or epidemiological settings with an interest in pharmacovigilance.
A certificate of attendance can be provided by e-mail after the meeting upon request.
