21st International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology
and Therapeutic RiskManagement

August 21-24, 2005
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
Nashville, TN

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STUDENT AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
AT THE 2005 ISPE ANNUAL MEETING

To recognize and encourage excellence in the scholarship of students in pharmacoepidemiology, the ISPE Board of Directors grants several student awards annually. The Scientific Program Committee oversees the selection and presentation of awards, which will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of ISPE Members, 10:30am, August 23, 2005, at the 2005 ICPE in Nashville, Tennessee. This year's Student awards and recipients follow.

• Edlavitch Award: Marie Helen Bouchard, University of Montreal, The Impact of Compliance with Statin on Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Rate for Primary Prevention.

  The Edlavitch Award, created by the Board at the time of retirement of the Society's first Executive Director, Dr. Stanley Edlavitch, is presented to the student who submits the best abstract for presentation at the annual meeting. This abstract also was the Best Methods Abstract submitted by a student.

• Second Best Abstract: Boris LG Van Wijk, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, 10 Year Persistence in Use of Antihypertensive Drugs.

• Third Best Abstract: Tobias F Gerhard, University of Florida, Propensity-Score-Based Analysis Compared to Multivariate Logistic Regression: Implications for Clinical Utility.