MIKE ISLES, Executive Director, ASOP EU/EAASM

•   Mike is the Executive Director for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (www.asop.eu). Its mission is to enable patients to buy their medicines online safely – where it is legal to do so. ASOP EU collaborates strongly with ASOP Global and its members and observers involve many key internet stakeholders. Its aim is to facilitate and campaign for new legislation as well as concrete voluntary actions that will make a real difference and ultimately benefit the health and safety of patients.

•   Mike is also Executive Director of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (www.eaasm.eu), a pan-European non-profit (CIC) patient safety organisation. The EAASM advocates for the development of a robust and harmonisedEU regulatory framework to protect patients and guarantee the safety, quality and efficacy of innovative nanomedicines and nanosimilars. It also campaigns for the safer use of unlicensed/off-label medicines, the adoption of medical, pharmacy and nursing practices that aim to eradicate medication errorsand the exclusion of falsified and substandard medicines from the supply chain.