On 1-2 October this year, in Hotel Kolovare in Zadar, a two-day international conference "Communicating the Risk in Pharmacovigilance-Are We Going in the Right Direction?", co-organised by the Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (ALMP) and the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society (HFD) was held under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. This conference is the fifth professional conference on pharmacovigilance organised by the ALMP.
International Conference "Communicating the Risk in Pharmacovigilance: Are We Going in the Right Direction?"
International conference "Communicating the Risk in Pharmacovigilance: Are We Going in the Right Direction?" will be organised by the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices and the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society.
Whom is this conference intended for?
• representatives of regulatory bodies.
• The official language of the conference is English (some of the conference workshops will be held in Croatian).
Speakers are from the World Health Organisation's Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring (UMC), competent institutions of the EU members, the ALMP, countries of the region and the pharmaceutical industry associations. Lectures will be given on the first conference day, whereas on the second day the ALMP staff and guests from the EMEA will hold workshops on new developments in pharmacovigilance (EudraVigilance, submission of the Periodic Safety Update Report for medicinal products and so on).
On May 14-15, 2009, in Hotel Medena in Seget Donji, an International Conference on Harmonisation with the EU Medical Devices Legislation was jointly organised by the Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (ALMP), the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society (HFD) and the Embassy of the French Republic in Croatia. The conference was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Croatia as a follow up to the symposium on the Approval, Marketing and Surveillance of Medical Devices held on November 6, 2006 in Split.
On 23-24 April 2009, an International Symposium on the Regional Regulatory Network was held in Priština's Grand Hotel, in organisation of the Kosovo Medicines Agency (Agjencioni i Kosovës për Produkte Medicinale, AKPM), Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Association (Shoqata e Distributorëve të Produkteve Medicinale dhe Farmaceutike të Kosovës), Pharmaceutical Association of Kosovo and the Pharmaceutical Department of the Medical School, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kosovo.
The Embassy of the French Republic in Croatia, the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society and the Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices organise an international conference on Harmonisation with the EU Medical Devices Legislation ("L'Harmonisation avec la législation européenne des dispositifs médicaux").
Whom is the Conference intended for?
• Official languages of the Conference are Croatian and French; simultaneous interpretation service will be provided.
The International Symposium on the Regional Regulatory Network will be held in Priština on 23-24 April 2009.
The Head of the Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices, Assistant Professor Siniša Tomić, PhD, will give a lecture on the Croatian Regulatory System on the first day of the Symposium.
On March 19, 2009, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., the Croatian Career Day in Biomedicine (BioMed 2009) will be held in hotel Dubrovnik, Zagreb. The sponsor of the BioMed project is the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices is the institutional partner of this event.
In the GSK Research Center Zagreb, an international conference on the "Networking in Pharmaceutical Sciences" was organised jointly by the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) and the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society (CPhS). The event partners were the Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices (ALMP) and the Croatian Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (CARPC). The Conference was held under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Croatia.
The Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices organises a Workshop on Medicinal Products Regulatory Monitoring intended primarily for representatives of the marketing authorisation holders for finished medicinal products in the Republic of Croatia involved in regulatory and medical operations, as well as for all those who are interested in the marketing authorisation procedure for finished medicinal products.
International Conference "Networking in Pharmaceutical Sciences"
On February 27, 2009, an international conference on Networking in Pharmaceutical Sciences will be held in Zagreb. The Conference will be organised by the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS) and the Croatian Pharmaceutical Society (CPhS). The Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices will take part as a partner of the conference organisers.