March 2012, Vancouver (Canada)
ISDB General Assembly 2012 Vancouver- Schedule
Saturday 24 March
11:00 - 15:00 Pick up from Airport
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Welcome words by
Jim Wright, Director of Therapeutics Initiative
Jörg Schaaber, ISDB President
Fun Activity + Socializing
Introduction of new members
Sunday 25 March
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30
25 years ISDB: success stories, challenges
The first decade – nurturing ISDB: Andrew Herxheimer (former chief
editor of DTB and co-founder of ISDB, UK) (via videoconference)
What to gain from an international network?:
Pijus Sakar,Chief editor of Bodhi, India
It’s all about the evidence – communicating benefit and harm:
Mary Hemming & Rob Moulds, Therapeutic Guidelines, Australia
Moderator: Benoit Marchand - Report: Nuria Homedes
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Focus on ISDB activities during the 3 last years. Reports by
ISDB President Jörg Schaaber (Pharma-Brief, G)
ISDB Treasurer Isidro Sia (RDU Update, Ph)
ISDB webmaster Maria Font (Dialogo sui Farmaci, It) and
ISDB Secretary Florence Vandevelde (Prescrire, F)
11:30 – 13.00
Report on the ISDB working group achievements by working groups
moderators and/or regions followed by Q/A. Focus themes:
Direct to consumer advertising
Barbara Mintzes, TI; Teresa Alves, HAI Europe
Working on EU issues: pharmacovigilance
Florence Vandevelde, Prescrire
Clinical trials and ethics in 3rd world countries / Focus on Latin
America
Nuria Homedes, Boletin Farmacos, USA
Moderator: NN - Report: NN
ISDB General Assembly 2012
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Bias in reports of drug studies: Why are independent drug bulletins
important?
Keynote-speaker: Lisa Bero, University of California, San Francisco
Moderator: NN
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00
Workshops I: Brainstorming on ISDB in 2020
(role, wishes, and expectations)
A. Resource person: Mary Hemming & Andrea Tarr; Report:
B. Resource person: Florence Vandevelde (Prescrire, France) & Natalia
Cebotarenco (Corsum, Moldova) Report: NN
C. Resource person: Maria Font & Chris Adlpavar (Spanish Group) Rep:
17:00 - 18:00
Report and discussion in plenary
Moderator: Jörg Schaaber
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Fun Activity + Socializing
Monday 26 March
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30
New drug assessments and cost-effectiveness assessments: methods
and their rationale
Comparative drugs assessments: benefits and pitfalls.
Stefanie Reken, IQWiG, Germany
Critical appraisal of Clinical Studies
Ken Bassett, TI and University of British Columbia
30 years of exhaustive assessments of new drugs in France
Gilles Mignot (Prescrire, France)
Moderator: Jim Wright
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00
Managing Key Opinion Leaders and their Publications
Keynote speaker: Sergio Sismondo, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Conflict of interests’ policy: why and how it contributes to
sustainability
At the bulletin level: results of the ISDB survey; sharing best practices.
David Menkes (Healthy Skepticism, NZ, moderator of ISDB Conflict of
interest working group)
Agreement on ISDB standards for CoI
Moderator: Barbara Mintzes, TI
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Outdoor Activities
16:00 – 17:00
Workshops II: Skills training 1
A. Creating and updating a website for your bulletin Facilitator: TI
B. Making your website an effective communication tool
Facilitator: CA
C. Writing for lay people (themes, editorial methods)
Facilitator: Allan Cassels, TI tbc & Jörg Schaaber, GPSP
D. Building alliances and coalitions
Facilitator: Teresa Alves & Natalia Cebotarenco
17:00 - 18:00
New Committee election:
Presentation of the new team candidates; Vote
Photos: Old Committee, New Committee, All Participants
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Fun Activity + Socializing
[Meeting of the New Committee]
Tuesday 27 March
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45
The risk proliferation syndrome
Keynote Speaker: Donald Light, University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey, USA
Moderator: Dulce Maria Calvo Barbado, Cuba
09:45 - 10:30
ISDB’s new Committee priorities and working methods for the next 3
years
Presentation by the New Committee
Exchanges with participants to seek for their advice/motivation
Constitution of working groups: listing the new ISDB working groups
Moderator: Natalia Cebotarenco
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
ISDB Working groups’ first meeting
For each working group: - Collectively defining the aims of the working
group & Identification of a working group Convenor/Coordinator.
12:00 - 13:00
Report of ISDB working groups in plenary
by the rapporteurs of each working group
Moderator: ISDB New President, Secretary: ISDB New General Secretary
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Surrogate endpoints: Do we really need them?
Speaker: David Menkes, Healthy Skepticism
Moderator: Florence Vandevelde
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00
Workshops III: Skills Training 2
A. Why and how to make the content of your bulletin fit for health
professionals’ continuing education programmes and e-learning
(content)? –
Prescrire & Benoit Marchand, AIS, Nicaragua
B. Why and how to make the content of your bulletin fit for new
technologies
(e-journals, prescription helpers, hospital databases, apps for mobile
devices: iPhones, Android & iPads)? – Therapeutics Initiative
17:00 - 18:00
Hidden agendas: Drug industry’s invisible influence on prescribers
Speaker: Adriane Fugh-Berman, Georgetown University, Washington DC,
USA
Moderator: Isidro Sia
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Conclusion of the General Assembly
Messages and tasks to take home by the new ISDB President
Closing word by the organizing host Ciprian Jauca (TI, C).
Fun Activity + Socializing
Wednesday 28 March
07:30 -
09:00 Breakfast
09:00 -
12:00 Check Out & Outdoor Activities
12:00 -
13:00 Lunch
13:00 -
18:00 Drop off at Airport and/or Downtown