Drug Information Association (DIA) is organizing a two-day Pharmacovigilance conference in Bengaluru on March 3 and 4, 2012  The event will be held at The Park hotel. The theme of the event is “Future Perspectives in Pharmacovigilance.’

The key objective of the event is to explain the current global safety reporting requirements for prescription and over the counter drugs.

There is also need to discuss the new pragmatic approaches to pharmacovigilance as proposed in the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) working group. Over the two days, experts will deliberate and provide inspection program of regulatory agencies in the area of clinical safety from US and Europe, stated Kaushik Desai, director DIA India.

The key note speakers are from India and abroad. They are Dr YK Gupta, department of clinical pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Moin Don, executive director PVCON, Pharmacovigilance Consulting Services, Stewart Geary, vice president, and deputy director of Corporate Regulatory Compliance, Safety & QA, Eisai Co. Ltd and Dr Vivek Ahuja, director, Pharmacovigilance, Asia Pacific, Baxter Healthcare.

While Programme co-chairs are Moin Don and Dr Ahuja, the programme committee members constitute Dr BR Jagashetty, Karnataka drugs controller, Dr Gupta, Prof. Parathasarthy Gurumurthy, professor and head of the department of clinical pharmacy, JSS College of Pharmacy Medical College Hospital, Mysore, RK Giridhar, vice president, BPO Pharma Services, Accenture, Dr Chitra Lele, chief scientific officer, Sciformix Corp.

International speakers panel covers Dr Sidney Kahn, principal scientist, Sciformix Pharmacovigilance Services, Dr Sumit Munjal, consultant, (oncology), Global Medical Safety, Johnson & Johnson, a division of Janseen-Cilag Ltd., Johnson & Johnson, UK and Angela Pitwood, VP, Pharmacovigilance, Indipharm Inc. US.

Some of the topics are safety and management during early drug development programme, US &EU safety regulations upsides-New FDA Rule/ DSURs, safety and regulatory writing, medical device vigilance, panel discussion on Schedule Y and Empowerment to Ethics Committees(ECs) and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), India: as pharmacovigilance outsourcing destination, safety during clinical trials through medical monitoring, integrating pharmacovigilance in medical and para medical curriculum., Utility of Cloud Computing in pharmacovigilance data base domain.

The organizers recommend that the conference should be attended by those from clinical research, risk management, compliance, medical information, regulatory affairs, academia and pharmacology.