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Overview Professor Emma Baker Professor of Clinical Pharmacology
St George's, University of London
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Clinical Pharmacology
A specialty dedicated to making sure patients get the best medicines Through clinical practice research teaching policy and politics...
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Clinical practice See patients! Medicines management
Usually another organ-based specialty Prescribing/ close relationship with pharmacy Adverse drug reactions Toxicology Pharmacovigilance Medicines management Managed entry of new drugs Rational and cost effective use of medicines
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Overview Emma Baker New drugs in your respiratory patients – are you up to date? Drug-induced lung disease Georgia Tunnicliffe Coffee Prescribing controversies in respiratory medicine Beta agonists or beta blockers for airways disease Azithromycin – for better or worse in chronic lung infection? Halima Amer Lunch Biologics for the respiratory physician Nidhi Sofat Medicines management – how to get new drugs for your patients Jo Harding Understanding ‘evergreening’ – how to keep your prescribing costs down Andrew Hitchings Wrap up and evaluation
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Research In vivo mechanistic studies Clinical trials - any phase
Investigator led May collaborate with industry Appraisal of trials/ evidence synthesis/ metaanalysis
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Overview Emma Baker New drugs in your respiratory patients – are you up to date? Drug-induced lung disease Georgia Tunnicliffe Coffee Prescribing controversies in respiratory medicine Beta agonists or beta blockers for airways disease Azithromycin – for better or worse in chronic lung infection? Halima Amer Lunch Biologics for the respiratory physician Nidhi Sofat Medicines management – how to get new drugs for your patients Jo Harding Understanding ‘evergreening’ – how to keep your prescribing costs down Andrew Hitchings Wrap up and evaluation
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Teaching Typically in medical schools
New national prescribing assessment coming 2014 tests prescribing planning management adverse drug reactions monitoring dose calculations communication
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Policy Development of policies and guidelines
Local National International MHRA, NICE, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), British National Formulary (BNF), World Health Organisation Relationship with industry
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Overview Emma Baker New drugs in your respiratory patients – are you up to date? Drug-induced lung disease Georgia Tunnicliffe Coffee Prescribing controversies in respiratory medicine Beta agonists or beta blockers for airways disease Azithromycin – for better or worse in chronic lung infection? Halima Amer Lunch Biologics for the respiratory physician Nidhi Sofat Medicines management – how to get new drugs for your patients Jo Harding Understanding ‘evergreening’ – how to keep your prescribing costs down Andrew Hitchings Wrap up and evaluation
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