International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)

ISPE Notice: Andy T. McAfee

Andy McAfee

It is with the greatest of sadness that we inform you of the untimely death of Andrew T. McAfee, MD, MS, a beloved member of our pharmacoepidemiology community, who was killed on August 27 in a motor scooter accident in Boston, MA.

A faculty member of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Andy was a gifted clinician, teacher and scholar. Andy was actively involved in ISPE for several years.

Andy used his gifts in service to the ISPE community in teaching a stimulating Introduction to Pharmacoepidemiology course at the Mid-Year and Annual Meetings for the past three years. There will be many ISPE members over the years to come who will look back on his inspiration of them in starting out in this field. He was just elected to chair the Education Committee.

Above all, Andy was a devoted husband to his wife, Jill Hahn, and their three children, Emma, Jordan and Elie, who were the center of his life and always foremost in his thoughts and decisions.

Our hearts are heavy in the wake of this inestimable loss for our community and his family.

The family has asked that remembrances may be made to the Beacon Academy, 477 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215-5396.,

ICPE 2010 A success!

The 26th ICPE in Brighton, UK was a giant success. There were attendees from over 30 countries on 5 different continents, an ABBA cover band, hours of presentations and much much more. Pictures and select presentations will be available on the members only website module soon. Thanks to all that made the meeting such a tremendous event.

ICPE Meetings - Selected Presentations

The Members Only section now includes selected presentations from the recent ISPE Mid-Year Meetings and ICPEs. Look under "ISPE Meeting Presentation."

5th Asian Meeting on Pharmacoepidemiology

ISPE is joining with the Japanese Society for Pharmacoepidemiology to hold a fifth Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology in Tokyo, Japan from October 29-31, 2010. This conference provides an outstanding opportunity for ISPE members to join with eminent Asian regulators, scholars and industry professionals from our field.The preliminary agenda is posted in the meeting module.

AHRQ Sponsors Journal Supplement on Challenges, Advances in Comparative Effectiveness Research

HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has available free copies of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Emerging Methods and Policy Applications, a special AHRQ-sponsored supplement to the June 2010 edition of the journal, Medicare Care.

This supplement includes 22 articles on comparative effectiveness study design, data collection, statistics and analytic methods, and policy issues and applications. It was produced through the AHRQs DEcIDE Network, which conducts patient-centered outcomes research, including studies on comparative effectiveness and safety.

The supplement does not endorse specific research methods but represents novel approaches for designing comparative effectiveness studies to inform health care decision making.

Articles from Medical Cares new supplement on comparative effectiveness research are publicly available by simply clicking here

Printed copies are available free of charge by e-mailing or calling AHRQ at ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov (1-800-358-9295) and asking for publication number OM10-0067.

CORPORATE BENEFACTORS (10 year membership)

Astra Zeneca R & D
Pfizer

ANNUAL MEMBERS

Pharmaceuticals

Sanofi-Aventis
F. Hoffmann-LaRoche AG

Service Providers

RTI Health Solutions

Government/Regulatory Agency

Department of Health, Pharmaceutical Services, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China
Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network, Canadian Institute of Health Research

Academic Programs

Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Center for Drug Safety, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland
Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
Drug Safety Research Unit, Associated Department, School of Pharmacy, Portsmouth University
Harvard School of Public Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
McGill Pharmacoepidemiology Research Unit, McGill University
Pharmacoepidemiology Program, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Program in Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island
School of Pharmacy, Unversity of Texas at Austin
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University


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