Bordeaux 2004 — An ICPE for the Ages
By Mark H. Epstein, ISPE Executive Secretary

What a marvelous conference! More than 850 people participated in ISPE's largest annual meeting — the 20th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, held at the Bordeaux Conference Center, Bordeaux, France, August 21-25, 2004. The unqualified success of this year's meeting was predicated on good science, engaging presentations, provocative discourse, solid networking, a memorable evening at the Chateau Giscours, and unbelievable luncheon buffets — the wine wasn't bad either.

Annie Fourrier-Reglat

Nicholas Moore

Kudos to Nicholas Moore, FISPE, Chair, Scientific Program Committee, and Annie Fourrier-Reglat, Chair, Local Host Committee, Nichole Hartnell, Chair, Student Council, Robert Vander Stichele, EuroDURG, Cees Schep, FISPE, and Nancy Dreyer, FISPE, Co-Chairs Development Committee, abstract reviewers, invited speakers, presenters, panelists, moderators, sponsors and exhibitors, and countless others for their dedication and commitment to make this year's meeting an unqualified success and a memorable experience.

The Society would like to express its appreciation to the following organizations for their contributions to and support of the 2004 annual meeting:

Joint Sponsors

• Association pour la recherché methodologique en Pharmacovigilance
• European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• European Drug Utilization Research Group
• International Epidemiological Associaton — European Epidemiology Federation
• International Society of Pharmacovigilance
• Special Interest Group — Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics of the International Pharmaceutical Federation

Sponsors

Platinum Level (at least $10,000)

Astra Zeneca R&D

Ingenix

Pfizer

Gold Level ($5,000)

Aventis

Conseil Regional D'Aquitaine

Eli Lilly & Co.

GlaxoSmithKline

JSS Medical Research

Merck Research Laboratories

Novartis

Procter & Gamble

Relsys International

RTI Health Solutions

Silver Level ($2,500-$4,999)

World Class International

Bronze Level ($1000- $2499)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

City of Bordeaux

Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux

CMIC Co., Ltd.

Endo Pharmaceuticals

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

ParagonRx

Risk Management Resources

Wyeth

Academic Showcase Sponsors

• Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program/Boston University School of Medicine
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• University of Dundee/MEMO
• The Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics of the University of Pennsylvania Health System
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University
• Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration, University of Florida
• Département de Pharmacologie, CHU de Bordeaux — Université Victor
• Segalen Division of Pharmacy Practice, University of Texas
• Drug Safety Research Unit
• University of Washington, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program
• Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutics Program, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS)

Exhibitors

• Adis International
• Aris Global
• DrugLogic
• Eli Lilly
• GlaxoSmithKline
• GPRD Division of MHRA
• JSS Medical Research
• John Wiley & Sons
• IMS Health
• Ingenix
• ICP, Erasmus University Medical Center
• MetaWorks, Inc.
• PharmIdeas Research & Consulting
• PharmNet
• PHARMO Institute
• RTI Health Solutions
• Uppsala Monitoring Centre

During the Annual Meeting of ISPE Members and Awards Ceremony on August 24, we acknowledged the accomplishment of the following individuals.

ISPE Fellows

Presentation by Thomas MacDonald, FISPE, Immediate Past President and Chair, Fellows Committee, and Susana Perez-Gutthann, FISPE, President.

Alejandro Arana
Anick Berard
Ulf Bergman
Robert Chen
Gerald Faich
Daniel Fife
Lourdes Frau
Gillian Hall
William Kelly
Stephen Kimmel
James Kotsanos
Kate Lapane
Mitchell Levine
Frank May
Nicholas Moore
Wayne Ray
Evelyn Rodriguez
Lewis Roht
Susan Sacks
Sebastian Schneeweiss
Cees Schep
Paul Stang
Andy Stergachis
Pat Tennis
Robert Wise

Student Awards

Presentation by Nicholas Moore, FISPE, Chair, 2004 Scientific Program Committee.

Best Methods Abstract: Frank de Vries, Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutics Program, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Inhaled Corticosteroid Induced Risk of Osteoporotic Fractures Confounded by Disease Severity in Asthma/COPD.

Third Best Abstract: Katia Verhamme, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Non Steroidal Anti-Inlammatory Drugs Increase the Risk of Acute Urinary Retention — The Triumph Project.

Wanning Xu – Edlavitch Award Winner

Second Best Abstract: Jeroen Derijks, Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutics Program, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Association between Antidepressant Use and Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia.

Edlavitch Award (Best Abstract): Wanning Xu, McGill University, The Effects of Antidepressant Drugs on the Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

ISPE-PDS Prize

Presentation by Ronald Mann, FISPE, Editor-in-Chief, PDS, and Brian Strom, FISPE, Regional Editor for the Americas to Helen Seaman, University of Surrey, first prize.

ISPE Honorary Lifetime Fellow

Presentation by Keith Beard, FISPE, and Thomas MacDonald, FISPE, Chair, Awards Committee of the first ISPE Honorary Lifetime Fellow Award to Hugh Tilson, FISPE.

Other memories from Bordeaux include the birthday cakes served to 700 members celebrating ISPE's 20th annual meeting at the Chateau Giscours, an over-subscribed student dinner at a local Bordeaux restaurant, a superb job by the Public Relations Committee (Yola Moride, FISPE, Chair), a well-organized EuroDURG poster walk, the initial student skills workshops, and more than 200 registered for each of the pre-meeting courses, and the nice words about the ISPE staff from the attendees.

Now it's on to Nashville in August 2005. Y'all come!

[Editors note: Photos from Bordeaux are posted in the Members-Only section of the ISPE website — www.pharmacoepi.org.]

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