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【轉知FIP網路課程】IPS Webinar: The use of Age-Related Medicines; Better Outcomes for Vulnerable Patients

2017-03-06

IPS Webinar: The use of Age-Related Medicines; Better Outcomes for Vulnerable Patients

Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CET (Find your local time here) Speaker: : Tom Sam (Phd), FIP fellow and winner of the Industrial Pharmacy Section Medal with over 30 years’ experience in pharmaceutical development and regulatory affairs. Tom was a contributor to the book “Developing drug products in an ageing society”.

Disease comes with age and, consequently, most medicines are used by the elderly. Elderly patients have characteristics in which they differ substantially from younger patients.

Understanding older patients and the environments in which they use their medicines is, therefore, pivotal for developing suitable medicines. Examples will be given where drug development was not successful enough and suggestions made on what to do to obtain better therapeutic outcomes in elderly patients. The future of successful drug therapy in our aging society depends on finding answers to the needs of these vulnerable patients.

Learning objectives

1. Basic understanding of the health status of the elderly.
2. Factors to be considered when developing drug products for older adults.
3. Future perspectives for geriatric drug therapy and its management.

Speaker: Tom Sam PhD, MBM, FIP fellow

Tom Sam is an industrial pharmaceutical scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and physical chemistry and a master degree in business management. He worked for 32 years for Organon, Schering-Plough and Merck Sharp & Dohme in the Netherlands, first in pharmaceutical development and later in regulatory affairs. Currently he owns LOBAL PHARM CMC, a company specialising in industrial pharmacy education. He was president of FIP’s Industrial Pharmacy Section for almost 10 years and was awarded the IPS Medal in 2015. In 2016, Tom contributed to the book “Developing drug products in an aging society” with a chapter on the use of drug delivery systems by the elderly.

This webinar is open to everyone, free of charge. The recording of the webinar will be available to FIP members at fip.org/webinars.