ISDB General Assembly 2012 - Schedule

 

 

Saturday 24

 

11:00 - 15:00 Pick up from Airport
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Welcome words by
Jim Wright, DIrector of TI
Jörg Schaaber, ISDB President
- Introduce new members

Fun Activity + Socializing

 

 

Sunday 25

 

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 25 years ISDB: success stories, challenges
- The first decade – nurturing ISDB: Andrew Herxheimer (former chief editor of DTB and co-founder of ISDB, UK)
- What to gain from an international network?: Pijus Sakar (Chief editor of Bodhi, India)
- It’s all about the evidence – communicating benefit and harm: Carol Norquay TG, Australia
Moderator:Benoit Marchand  -  Report: Nuria
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Focus on ISDB activities during the 3 last years
-5 minutes (each) reports by ISDB President Jörg Schaaber (Pharma-Brief, G), ISDB Treasurer Isidro Sia (RDU Update, Ph), ISDB webmaster Maria Font (Dialogo sui Farmaci, It) and ISDB Secretary Florence Vandevelde (Prescrire, F)
- Report on the ISDB working group achievements by working groups moderators and/or regions followed by Q/A.  Focus themes:
  * Direct to consumer advertising / Barbara Mintzes, TI; Teresa Alves, HAI
  * Working on EU issues:, pharmacovigilance / Florence Vandevelde, Prescrire
  * Clinical trials and ethics in 3rd world countries / Focus on Latin America, Nuria Homedes
Moderator:Juan Erviti  -  Report: Iñigo
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Bias in reports of drug studies: Why are independent drug bulletins important?
Lisa Bero, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Moderator:Isidro 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Workshops I: Brainstorming on ISDB in 2020
                       (role, wishes, and expectations)
Resource person: Andrew Herxheimer
Resource person: Christophe Kopp & Natalia
Resource person: Maria Font & Chris A (Spanish Group)
Including topics: *Maria will make a proposal for topics
17:00 - 18:00 Report and discussion in plenary
Moderator: Jõrg
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Fun Activity + Socializing

 

 

Monday 26

 

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 New drug assessments and cost-effectiveness assessments: methods and their rationale
- Comparative drugs assessments: benefits and pitfalls. Beate Wieseler or Thomas Kaiser, IQWiG, Germany
- Critical appraisal of Cost effectiveness. Ken Bassett
- 30 years of exhaustive assessments of new drugs in France Gilles Mignot (Prescrire, F)
Moderator:Wright
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Conflict of interests’ policy: why and how it contributes to sustainability
- Keynote speaker: Sismondo
- At the bulletin level: results of the ISDB survey; sharing best practices.
- David Menkes (Healthy Skepticism, NZ, moderator of ISDB Conflict of interest working group)
- Agreement on ISDB standards for CoI
Moderator:Barbara Mintzes
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 14:00 - 16:00
Outdoor Activities
16:00 - 1700 Workshops II: Skills training 1
A - Creating and updating a website for your bulletin [Facilitator: TI]
B - Making your website an effective communication tool [Facilitator: CA]
C - Writing for lay people (themes, editorial methods) [Facilitator: Public Citizen]Jõrg will call them
D - Building alliances and coalitions[Facilitator: Teresa Alves & Natalia]
17:00 - 18:00 New Committee election:
Presentation of the new team candidates; Vote

Photos:
- Old Committee
- New Committee
- All Participants

18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Fun Activity + Socializing

[Meeting of the New Committee]

 

 

Tuesday 27

 

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Hidden agendas: Drug industry’s invisible influence on prescribers
Speaker: Adriane Fugh-Berman, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
09:45 - 10:30 ISDB’s new Committee priorities and working methods for the next 3 years:
- Presentation by the New Committee
- Exchanges with participants to seek for their advice/motivation
- Constitution of working groups: listing the new ISDB working groups
Moderator:Natalia
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 11:00 - 12:00  ISDB Working groups’ first meeting
For each working group: - Collectively defining the aims of the working group & Identification of a working group Convenor/Coordinator.
 12:00 - 13:00  Report of ISDB working groups in plenary
by the rapporteurs of each working group
Moderator:ISDB New President
Secretary:ISDB New General Secretary
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Surrogate endpoints: Do we really need them?
Speaker: David Menkes
Moderator: Florence 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Workshops III: Skills Training 2
A - Why and how to make the content of your bulletin fit for health professionals’ continuing education programmes and e-learning (content)?  -  Prescrire & Benito
B - Why and how to make the content of your bulletin fit for new technologies (e-journals, prescription helpers, hospital databases, apps for mobile devices: iPhones, Android & iPads)? - TI?
17:00 - 18:00 The risk proliferation syndrome
Keynote Speaker: Donald Light
Moderator:Dulce
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:30 Conclusion of the General Assembly
- Messages and tasks to take home by the new ISDB President
- Closing word by the organizing host Ciprian Jauca (TI, C).

Fun Activity + Socializing

 

 

Wednesday 28

 

07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 Check Out
&
Outdoor Activities
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 18:00 Drop off at Airport and/or Downtown