International conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy "Rational use of Medicines"

September 8-9, Astana hosted an International conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy "Rational use of Medicines"

The conference was attended by more than 300 participants, including official delegates from regional Health departments, medical, pharmaceutical and scientific organizations, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representatives of regional branches of the Republican Medical Chamber, WHO country office and foreign partners, foreign experts in the field of Clinical pharmacology.

The organizer was the Republican Center for Health Development and the Republican Medical Chamber

The International conference was greeted by the Vice-minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan Lyazzat Aktaeva. In her speech, she noted that the conference will help to find new approaches to resolving pressing issues in Health care.

«"This event provides a unique opportunity for doctors, clinical pharmacologists and pharmacists to meet and discuss global topics of interest to the entire international community in the field of Clinical pharmacology and Pharmacy," the Vice-minister emphasized.

The two-day event aimed key audience to show the benefits, perspectives and fundamental role of Clinical pharmacology in the development of Health care, based on the principles of Evidence-based medicine.

Unique sessions took place within the framework of the conference, medicine experts and international experts talked about improving the work in Clinical pharmacology and Pharmacy, with the possibility of reducing the number of preventable serious health damage caused by errors in the use of medicines.

The reports were made by world-class experts: "WHO Global Initiative for Rational Use of Medicines" Maksut Kulzhanov Professor, Member of the Executive Committee of WHO, "The main Directions of the Drug policy" Arnur Nurtayev Head of the Project Group, "The Role of the National Formulary in the Good administration of Medicines" Karen Baxter representative of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Director of the British National Formulary (United Kingdom). An International consultant on the "Technology Transfer and Institutional Reform in the Health Sector" World Bank Project, Frans Stobbelaar described the key approaches to informing the public about the need for rational use of medicines.

For the first time on September 9 in Kazakhstan, on the site of the conference took place a Debate between representatives of pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer on the topic: "Rational choice of Pneumococcal vaccines for Vaccine prevention programs in Kazakhstan."

Master classes for kazakh pharmacists were conducted by Professor Lilia Ziganshina, Head of the Chair of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of the Kazan Federal University of Russia, on the topic "Cochrane Evidence for Rational Use of Medicines"; Doctor Clinical pharmacologist of the Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan Albina Nigmedzyanova on the topic "Problems of Pharmacotherapy in Real Clinical practice", "What you need to know about the Infusion therapy" and "Errors of antimicrobial therapy"; professor of the University of Otago (New Zealand), Clinical pharmacist David Woods "Innovative approaches to Individual treatment"; Rosa Yagudina, Head of the Department of Organization of Medicine Supply and Pharmacoeconomics of the First Moscow State Medical University named I.M. Sechenov (RF).

Reports - presentations of speakers you can click on the link below.

• Conference program
• Materials of the first day of the conference
• Materials of the second day of the conference
• Conference Resolution
• Debate Resolution
• Debate the transcript
• Photo report..
• Journal manager

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