

27th Pharmacovigilance 2022
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Event Speakers
KHAUDEJA BANO
Amgen

SUMIT MUNJAL
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

SUMIT MUNJAL
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
SUMIT MUNJAL, Vice President, Global Patient Safety Evaluation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
FABIO DE G
Europe Shionogi Europe

FABIO DE G
Europe Shionogi Europe
FABIO DE GREGORIO, Vice President, Head of Drug Safety Europe, Shionogi Europe
WIVINA DE W
Alexion Pharmaceuticals

WIVINA DE W
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
WIVINA DE WAELE, Director EMEA, Global Drug Safety, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
RISHI CHOPRA
Biogen

RISHI CHOPRA
Biogen
RISHI CHOPRA, Senior Director, Head of International PV |, Deputy EU UK QPPV, Biogen
JOHN SOLOMON
Sanofi

KLAUDIJA M B
Teva

PAV RISHIRAJ
Ipsen

PAV RISHIRAJ
Ipsen
PAV RISHIRAJ, Director – Pharmacovigilance (UK & Ireland) &, ABPI PV Expert Chair, Ipse,
MIRCEA CIUCA
CSL Behring

MIRCEA CIUCA
CSL Behring
MIRCEA CIUCA, Global Therapeutic Area Head - Global Clinical, Safety & PV, CSL Behring
RAJ BHOGAL
Jazz Pharmaceuticals

RAJ BHOGAL
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
RAJ BHOGAL, Senior Director, R&D Audits & Inspections, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
DNYANESHWAR S
Glenmark

DNYANESHWAR S
Glenmark
DNYANESHWAR SANAP, EU/UK QPPV, Head Regional PV and Global, Compliance & Training, Glenmark
ALESSANDRO V
MSD (CH)

ALESSANDRO V
MSD (CH)
ALESSANDRO VAGHEGGINI, Associate Principal Biostatistician, Clinical, Safety Statistics, MSD (CH)
AMGAD SHEBL
CSL Behring

AMGAD SHEBL
CSL Behring
AMGAD SHEBL, Sr. Director, Global Safety Lead, Immunology, Global Clinical Safety & PV, CSL Behring
ALINA TUDOR
Kyowa Kirin International

ALINA TUDOR
Kyowa Kirin International
ALINA TUDOR, Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance, Kyowa Kirin International
DANIELA DI C
Ferring Pharmaceuticals

DANIELA DI C
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
DANIELA DI COSMO, Senior PV Manager, Global PV, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
SAKHARAM G
Renovare Healthcare

SANDY EISEN
Frontline Pharma Consulting

SANDY EISEN
Frontline Pharma Consulting
SANDY EISEN, Chief Medical Officer, Frontline Pharma Consulting
ALEXANDER R
Arnold & Porter

ALEXANDER R
Arnold & Porter
ALEXANDER ROUSSANOV, International Partner, Life Sciences and Privacy, Arnold & Porter
“Latest developments in pharmacovigilance, drug safety & risk management”
Event Schedule
Meet and to network with your conference colleagues.
09:30 - Welcome Address & Virtual Conference Platform Instructions
SAFETY
09:40 - Implementation of the new EU Clinical Trial rules and the impacts on safety departments
HOWARD SNOW, VP, Head of Pharmacovigilance, Hengrui Therapeutics
10:20 - How to tailor safety surveillance for new and well, established products: our experience
• What to do when the portfolio contains both new and well-established products
• Our approach and our experience
• What’s next
DANIELA DI COSMO, Senior PV Manager, Global PV, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
11:00 – Morning Coffee/Tea
11:20 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Improving the PV ecosystem for advancement – Rising back from the pandemic
• Lessons learnt from the pandemic
• Possible impacts of Brexit
• Staying ahead in the race - Update on PV in EU, USA & RoW - Current trends for PV and new and future guidelines
• Outsourcing in Pharmacovigilance- Best Practices, Challenges and key consideration
• Best practices & the way forward
Moderator:
WALLY LANDSBERG, Vice President, Global Head of Medical Safety, Kyowa Kirin International
Panellists:
SUMIT MUNJAL, Vice President, Global Patient Safety Evaluation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
YVONNE NANCIU, Country Head Pharmacovigilance, Bayer
WIVINA DE WAELE, Director EMEA, Global Drug Safety, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
VALENTINA MANCINI, Director PV, EU QPPV, Shionogi
PHILIP OLUWOLE, PFO PV Consulting
12:10 – Pharmacovigilance - Emerging Markets - What comes next for the industry especially post this pandemic?
SAKHARAM GARALE, Founder & CEO, Renovare Healthcare Solutions
12:40 – Networking luncheon
QUALITY - SAFETY – SIGNAL DETECTION
13:40 – Panel Discussion – Quality, Safety & Signal Detection – Peep into the future
• Best practice in signal detection and management across product life cycle
• Developing a global safety intelligence process
• Quality assurance and compliance
• Exploring patient support and marketing research programs from a safety perspective
• How should we approach?
• Statistical signal detection as a routine pharmacovigilance practice
• Latest updates and hot topics
Moderator:
MICHAEL RAMCHARAN, Managing Director, Reumat Consulting
Panellists:
CHETAN SHATAPATHY, Executive Director, Head of Antibody-Drug Conjugates, Oncology Patient Safety, AstraZeneca
DIMITRIS ZAMPATIS, Head of Pharmacovigilance EMEA-EEA QPPV, Lupin
JEAN-KILGOUR CHRISTIE, Deputy EU QPPV, Novartis
MARIA MADDALENA LINO, Safety Risk Lead Director, Pfizer
MARINA SUVAKOV, Global Head Safety Surveillance, Philip Morris International
DANIELA DI COSMO, Senior PV Manager, Global PV, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
14:30 – A new probabilistic tool for causality assessment in signal detection
• Principles and background
• Description and performance (accuracy, sensitivity/ specificity)
• Application and perspectives
FABIO DE GREGORIO, Vice President, Head of Drug Safety Europe, Shionogi Europe
15:00 – Back to the future: bigger or better in PV?
• Data volume versus data quality
• Heterogeneity and plurality and the conclusions we can draw
• Beyond Drug Event Combinations: Bringing the patient back into the picture
UWE GUDAT, Head of Medical Affairs & CSPV, Fresenius Kabi
15:30 - Afternoon Tea/Coffee
15:50 – Subgroup issues in safety evaluation
• Bias due to post-stratification
• Reduced sample sizes and related statistical issues
• Multiplicity issues
ALESSANDRO VAGHEGGINI, Associate Principal Biostatistician, Clinical Safety, Statistics, MSD (CH)
16:30 - What are the challenges of Global and Local Medical Literature Monitoring? Can we improve it?
• Large volume of articles, can AI help?
• Local Literature content, too much or too little?
• Costs: is open access data an option?
NICOLE BAKER, Co-Founder, BioLogit
17:00 - End of Day One Conference
PV FOR 2022
09:40 – Pharmacovigilance in 2022
• Future horizons and efficiencies in data acquisition, evaluation and risk management
• Future-proofing Safety Systems
• Where are we?
• Boldly Shaping the Future
MIRCEA CIUCA, Global Therapeutic Area Head - Global Clinical Safety and, Pharmacovigilance, CSL Behring
10:20 – Global Safety impacts due to combination products
KHAUDEJA BANO, Vice President, Combination Product Quality, Amgen (USA)
11:00 – Morning Coffee/Tea
PATIENT SAFETY
11:20 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Prioritising Patients -Reshaping patient safety
• Developing COVID treatment in the midst of the pandemic: Protecting patients and pharmacovigilance compliance in extraordinary circumstances
• Driving patient centricity into your PV plans
• Pharmacovigilance as a tool for safety and monitoring
• Patient-Perspectives in benefit-risk assessments
• A review of general issues and the specific challenges with patients
• Next generation pharmacovigilance for enhanced patient safety
Moderator:
MIRCEA CIUCA, Global Therapeutic Area Head - Global Clinical Safety and, Pharmacovigilance, CSL Behring
Panellists:
KHAUDEJA BANO, Vice President, Combination Product Quality, Amgen (USA)
JOHN SOLOMON, Head of Pharmacovigilance - UK & Ireland, Sanofi
JAMES WHITEHEAD, Director and Team Lead - Patient Safety Medical Devices &, Digital Health, AstraZeneca
SHAANTANU DONDE, Head of Portfolio Management Team - Medical Affairs, Viatris
12:10 - The globalization of medicines: how to ensure global risk management strategies and ensure safe use by patients worldwide
• The globalization of regulation paving the way to implementation of transnational risk management strategies
• How the practice of medicine and the healthcare provider-patient interactions have transformed across the globe, allowing for better access to global safety data, to be used when developing risk management plans
• One RMP to fit all or all to fit within one RMP: core RMP and how to make good use of this internal tool
ALINA TUDOR, Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance, Kyowa Kirin International
12:40 – Networking luncheon
RISK MANAGEMENT & PLANNING
13:30 – Panel Discussion – Risk Management Plan and, Pharmacovigilance System - New Paradigm
• Implementation of complex risk minimisation measures
• Challenges and overcoming problems in Pharmaceutical product life cycle management
• Managing risks / Administrating risks – Right way in handling situations
• Tailored approaches towards benefit-risk evaluations
• Implementation and maintenance of RMP’s
• Risk management in different jurisdictions
• New approaches to managing benefit-risk
Moderator:
AMGAD SHEBL, Sr. Director, Global Safety Lead, Immunology Global, Clinical Safety & PV, CSL Behring
Panellists:
RUDI SCHEERLINCK, Strategic Safety Lead, Merck Group
MOHAMED ABDILLAHI, Director, Risk management Product Lead, Pfizer
RICARDA TIEMEYER, Country Head of PV (DACH), Biogen
MINHAJ OBEIDULLAH, Head Compliance & Risk Management, Novartis
SANDY EISEN, Chief Medical Officer, Frontline Pharma Consulting
ENSURING COMPLIANCE
14:20 – Remote audits and inspections
• Logistical issues
• How to prepare and what to expect
• Differences from onsite
TEA BABIC, Director – PV Audits and Inspections, Teva
15:00 - Afternoon Tea/Coffee
15:20 – Panel Discussion - Pharmacovigilance Audits: Keeping on the right side of inspectors
• Managing Pharmacovigilance Audits and Inspections
• Data Quality Management and Analysis
• PV Inspection readiness: What to expect? How ready can we be?
• Risk based selection criteria for auditing
• Methodologies, scope and oversight
Moderator:
RAJ BHOGAL, Senior Director, R&D Audits & Inspections, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Panellists:
TEA BABIC, Director – PV Audits and Inspections, Teva
MOIN DON, CEO, PVCON Consulting, Lead S Asia Chapter, ISoP, Member of Central Advisory Committee, DIA
DNYANESHWAR SANAP, EU/UK QPPV, Head Regional PV and Global Compliance, & Training, Glenmark
RANJANA KHANNA, Former Director & Head Pharmacovigilance Quality, Assurance, Vifor Pharma
15:30 - Afternoon Tea/Coffee
REGULATION OVERVIEW & UPDATE
16:10 – Panel Discussion: PV - Regulatory Updates
• PV System Legislation Updates
• Key current changes and their impact on current PV
• Brexit – Regulatory aspect
• Future Legislation: Pharmacovigilance – Industry Vision
• Enhancing communication between regulators, regional authorities and patients
Moderator:
RISHI CHOPRA, Senior Director, Head of International PV | Deputy EU UK, QPPV, Biogen
Panellists:
PAV RISHIRAJ, Director – Pharmacovigilance (UK & Ireland) & ABPI PV, Expert Chair, Ipsen
KLAUDIJA MARIJANOVIC BARAC, Sr. Director, Global Patient Safety & PV - TPC, Teva
ALEXANDER ROUSSANOV, International Partner, Life Sciences and Privacy, Arnold & Porter
17:00 - 17:10 – End of the conference
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