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NEWS FROM BREDGRäNDWelcome to SaraSara Bergh has recently joined the UMC,working as a Sales Assistant. This involvesensuring our commercial customers –particularly of the WHO Drug Dictionary –have their transactions administered in anefficient and timely manner.Sara is originally from Säffle in the west ofSweden. She came to work at the UMChaving studied international marketing andsales at Folkuniversitetet in Uppsala.Outside of work she is interested in sport: “In 1997 I moved toUppsala to play volleyball in Sweden’s highest league. After 6 years Inow play in the second league for Tierp Volley, more for fun, where Iam also the team captain.”Drug Safety bulletinsand the UMCAt present at the UMC we have an incomplete view of the existenceand coverage of bulletins issued by national pharmacovigilancecentres. In UR42 we requested information from nationalpharmacovigilance centres and academic departments aboutnewsletters in both print and digital format, and have managed tofill some gaps. Many thanks to those centres who responded to ourappeal!WHO-ART–MedDRAbridge updatedA bridge between WHO-ART and MedDRA was developed in 2007 forthose who want to continue using WHO-ART and at the same timeneed to be able to report ICSRs to organizations in MedDRA codedformat.The file mapping WHO-ART terms to corresponding MedDRA terms isupdated annually and the latest version mapping terms from the firstversion of WHO-ART 2009 (2009.01) to MedDRA 12.0 has now beenreleased.The bridge consists of all WHO-ART Preferred terms, not Includedterms, with a link to the nearest MedDRA term, which may be a Lowlevel term or a Preferred term. The bridge is available free of chargeto all WHO-ART and MedDRA customers.It is recommended that centres produce ADR newsletters andbulletins as a good way of sharing important information. Newslettershowever vary greatly in frequency and content and the groups atwhich they are aimed. Some regulatory authorities andpharmacovigilance centres maintain websites at which you cansubscribe to updates.The UMC is keen to see examples of good practice – in each region,in different languages and from national (or regional) centres ondifferent scales. We circulate and store recent issues for referenceand for educational purposes. We believe there may also be apossibility of future co-ordination with those responsible as editorsof pharmacovigilance bulletins.Member countries are encouraged to provide the UMC withinformation about their medicine safety newsletters where available.If the UMC is not already receiving your newsletter, do send us acopy – whether printed (to our post address), distributed by e-mailand/or downloadable from your website (to info@who-umc.org).22 UR45 April 2009 www.who-umc.org
COURSES & CONFERENCESdatestitleplaceORGANISER/CONTACT13-14 May 2009Compliance in pharmacovigilance and the role ofthe EU QPPVLondon, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/13-15 May 2009Practical Guide for Pharmacovigilance: ClinicalTrials and Post MarketingLondon, UKDIA European Branch OfficeTel: +41 61 225 51 51; Fax: +41 61 225 51 52E-mail: diaeurope@diaeurope.org18 May 2009An essential guide to pharmacovigilanceLondon, UKManagement Forum LtdTel: +44 (0)1483 730071 Fax: +44 (0)1483 730008www.management-forum.co.uk1-3 June 200918th Annual Scientific Congress ARCS; Educationin PracticeSydney, AustraliaARCS Australia LtdTel: +61 (02) 8905 0829E-mail asc@arcs.com.au ; www.arcs.com.au3-4 June 2009Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs)Southampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/4-5 June 2009IX Jornadas de Farmacovigilancia, 25thAnniversary of the Spanish PharmacovigilanceSystemOviedo, SpainSpanish Medicines Agency in collaboration with RegionalHealth Authority of Asturiaswww.farmacovigilancia2009.es15-17 June 2009Pharmacovigilance: A Basic Training Course forthose working on drug safety monitoring in theEU, USA and JapanLondon, UKManagement Forum LtdTel: +44 (0)1483 730071 Fax: +44 (0)1483 730008www.management-forum.co.uk24-25 June 20095th Biennial Signal Detection meeting(Pre-Conference tutorial: 23 June 2009)Southampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/8-10 July 2009Medical Aspects of Adverse Drug ReactionsSouthampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/12-15 July 20099th Congress of the EACPTEdinburgh, ScotlandEuropean Association for Clinical Pharmacology andTherapeutics (EACPT)www.eacpt2009.org/15-16 July 2009Introduction to pharmacoepidemiologySouthampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/4-8 August 200910th Commonwealth Pharmacists AssociationConferenceAccra, GhanaCPA Accra 2009:E-mail: info@psgh.orgwww.psgh.org/cpa16-19 August 200925th Anniversary International Conference onPharmacoepidemiology& Therapeutic Risk ManagementProvidence, RhodeIsland, USAISPEwww.pharmacoepi.org/meetings/25thconf/index.cfmE-mail: ISPE@paimgmt.com9-10 September 2009Back to basics in pharmacovigilanceSouthampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/23-24 September 2009Critical appraisal of medical and scientific papersSouthampton, UKDSRUTel: +44 (0)23 8040 8621E-mail: jan.phillips@dsru.org ; www.dsru.org/6-9 October 2009Annual Meeting of the International Society ofPharmacovigilance (ISoP)Reims, FranceISoPwww.isoponline.org/upcoming-meeting.html12-16 October 2009Excellence in Pharmacovigilance: Clinical Trialsand Post MarketingBerlin, GermanyDIA EuropeTel. +41 61 225 51 51diaeurope@diaeurope.orgUppsala Reports 45 www.who-umc.org 23
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