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Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Strategies Conference
Session 9: Considerations for Medication Error Pharmacovigilance
Session Chair(s)
Jo Wyeth, PharmD
- Associate Director for Postmarket Assessments, OMEPRM, OSE, CDER
- FDA, United States
Medication errors have a significant public health burden. This session will discuss the impact of medication errors, current state of medication error pharmacovigilance, and propose directions for building a pharmacovigilance medication error program for the future.
Learning Objective :
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Recognize that medication error prevention requires a collaborative effort among regulators, industry, patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders
- Identify differences and challenges in the approach for medication error pharmacovigilance versus adverse event pharmacovigilance
- Describe current and emerging approaches for surveilling medication errors
Speaker(s)
Medication Errors: Impact on the Victims
Christina Michalek, RPh
- Medication Safety Specialist
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices , United States

Speaker
Reema Mehta, PharmD, MPH
- Senior Director, Head of Risk Management and Safety Surveillance Research
- Pfizer Inc, United States
Roadmap for Medication Error Pharmacovigilance
Jo Wyeth, PharmD
- Associate Director for Postmarket Assessments, OMEPRM, OSE, CDER
- FDA, United States
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning with Patient Safety Event Reports
Allan Fong, MS
- Research Scientist and Data Scientist
- Medstar Health National Center For Human Factors In Healthcare, United States
Panelist
Lubna Merchant, PharmD, MS
- Deputy Office Director, OMEPRM, OSE, CDER
- FDA, United States
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Preconference Short Courses
Short Course 1: Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Planning
Short Course 2: Interdisciplinary Safety Evaluation During Product Development
Short Course 3: Reference Safety Information
Short Course 4: Introduction to Statistics in Pharmacovigilance
Short Course 5: Pharmacovigilance for Medication Errors
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