Partners
PATHs Program
Fourth Annual Meeting
Agenda
4th Annual Partnerships to Advance Therapeutics (PATHs) Meeting
National Strategic Initiatives to Improve the Public Health Through Therapeutics
March 16, 2004
Hotel Monaco, 700 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Objectives
- Exchange information about national organizations' initiatives aimed at improving the use of medications, medical devices and biological products (therapeutics), and to identify potential partnerships that may enhance them.
- Identify 1-3 new strategic initiatives that will complement existing efforts to improve the public health through the optimal use of therapeutics and will require collaboration among stake holders.
Program
Welcome and Review of Objectives
9:15 Introduction of Participants
- Each participant will have one minute for introduction to include describing an example of a strategic initiative undertaken by his or her organization to advance the optimal use of therapeutics
10:15 Presentation: CERTs Strategic Plan for Improving the Public Health through Therapeutics
10:45 Break
11:05 Breakout Sessions: New Strategic Initiatives Requiring National Collaboration
- CERTs Risk Series: Priority Research Issues
- Health Care Provider Education and Training
- Technology Assisted Decision Making
- Safety of Marketed Therapeutics
- Informed Coverage Decisions