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Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management Strategies Conference

Session 9: Considerations for Medication Error Pharmacovigilance

Session Chair(s)

Jo Wyeth, PharmD

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)

Christina Michalek, RPh

Medication Errors: Impact on the Victims

Christina Michalek, RPh

  • Medication Safety Specialist
  • Institute for Safe Medication Practices , United States
Reema Mehta, PharmD, MPH

Speaker

Reema Mehta, PharmD, MPH

  • Senior Director, Head of Risk Management and Safety Surveillance Research
  • Pfizer Inc, United States
Jo Wyeth, PharmD

Roadmap for Medication Error Pharmacovigilance

Jo Wyeth, PharmD

  • Associate Director for Postmarket Assessments, OMEPRM, OSE, CDER
  • FDA, United States
Allan Fong, MS

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
Lubna Merchant, PharmD, MS

Panelist

Lubna Merchant, PharmD, MS

  • Deputy Office Director, OMEPRM, OSE, CDER
  • FDA, United States

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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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