Report on the 2017 EACPT Congress in Prague
The EACPT 2017 Congress was held in Prague from 24th-27th June with 566 participants from all 5 continents – 28% from beyond the European Region, from Australia to China, Japan and South Korea to the USA. 487 abstracts were presented as 171 oral communications and 316 e-poster presentations were by delegates from the European Region and around the world.
The Congress included 2 plenary sessions, 22 parallel sessions with Keynote Lectures, 5 Oral Communications sessions and 3 Guided Poster Sessions on current issues for research, education and clinical practice on safe and effective use of medicines. The programme provided an international scientific and educational forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, including personalised pharmacotherapy.
Themes included the latest developments on effectiveness and safety of medicines, clinical pharmacology in clinical practice, pharmacokinetics/systems pharmacology, including in special populations, innovative techniques, eHealth, biomarkers, education, advanced practices in topics such as drug discovery, drug development, biological therapies, global health with a focus on access to safe medicines, new pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, safety in prescribing and updates on personalised medicines, as well as updates on specific therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, nephrology, oncology, neurology and psychiatry.
Future EACPT Congresses:
– 2019 Stockholm
– 2021 Athens
– 2023 Rotterdam
The EACPT was founded 25 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.
You can find full information https://www.eacpt.eu/report-on-the-2017-eacpt-congress-in-prague/
World Antibiotic Awareness Week
The World Antibiotic Awareness Week for the third year in a row worldwide at the initiative of WHO.
The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the greatest dangers to public health throughout the world. In Kazakhstan, within the framework of the World Antibiotic Awareness Week from 13 to 19 November 2017, the Center for Rational Use of Medicines of the Republican Center for Health Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as CRUM), conducted an information campaign among the population, the medical and pharmaceutical community, and specialists in the field of agriculture, the main purpose of which was to improve the awareness and understanding of the threat of antibiotic resistance.
On November 13, 2017, there was a Round Table on the discussion of the National Plan for Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (CAR) within the World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the WHO Country Office in Kazakhstan, the World Organization for Animal Health, the Public Health Protection Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Center for Rational Use of Medicines of the RSE on REM "Republican Center for Health development " of MoH of RoK"National Center for Expertise", Department for Codecs Alimentarius, clinical microbiologists, clinical pharmacologists and pharmacists.