ISPE: Resources - SIGs & Councils

Student Council

The ISPE Student Council aims to keep its members connected throughout the year using Facebook and Linked-In. All important announcements can be accessed via these groups, and especially Linked-In is a great resource for sharing research interests and finding professional connections. Please join us!

Mission

Students of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (SISPE) is an international network for students interested in or studying pharmacoepidemiology. SISPE is organized by student members of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE).

The ISPE Student Council has set the following goals and objectives:

To provide a forum for the discussion of issues of specific concern to pharmacoepidemiology students across the world.
To facilitate the exchange of information concerning research, grants, job openings, and other information of interest.
To improve ISPE students' social and professional networks and create an engaged and lively student community in pharmacoepidemiology.
To represent the interests and concerns of ISPE student members before the Board of Directors.
To organize student activities at ISPE meetings and throughout the year, to optimize benefits for students, and to enhance student participation.

These objectives are to be achieved by organizing the student night out at ISPE-sponsored meetings, the student skills workshop held at the annual meetings, the online journal clubs/seminars, regular communication with ISPE student members, and by conducting other activities consistent with these aims.

Upcoming Events

Eligibility and Benefits

Eligibility

As a student member of ISPE, you are automatically a member of SISPE.

Benefits

In addition to all the benefits afforded to regular ISPE members, the benefits of SISPE membership include:

Receiving important communications
As a member of SISPE, you are automatically added to the ISPE student listserv and sent an invitation to join the ISPE student group on Facebook (if you are a student member and have not yet received a Facebook invitation, please contact either Jessica Jalbert or Jen Polinski. Through these two media, we inform the student body of student events and activities, employment opportunities, and provide students with a forum to discuss methodological issues or hot topics in pharmacoepidemiology.
The opportunity to participate in online journal clubs/seminars
A new initiative has been created by the ISPE Student Council this year: the online journal club/seminar series. We plan on having 4 or 5 of these activities this year. Only members of SISPE are invited to join the journal club/seminar where students have the opportunity to hear and ask questions of leaders in the field of pharmacoepidemiology on methodological issues and hot topics in the field.
An invitation to all student activities held at the ISPE-sponsored meetings
The ISPE Student Council organizes a number of student activities at ISPE-sponsored meetings such as student the student skills workshop, the student council meetings, and ISPE student socials, to name a few. In the past, the student skills workshop has featured a panel of experts in pharmacoepidemiology talking to students on a wide range of topics from detailing their own personal career paths to offering advice on how land your dream job after graduation. During the annual student council meeting, issues to be addressed by the student body are discussed and a new chair and co-chair is elected. The ISPE student socials, also organized by the ISPE Student Council, are a great opportunity to informally meet your peers in a relaxed setting. Student events at each conference are listed in the conference program. This helps students identify the events and plan accordingly.
The opportunity to network with other students in pharmacoepidemiology on an international scale.
In certain circumstances, who you know can be as, or even more, important than what you know. Being a member of SISPE presents you with the opportunity to network with other pharmacoepidemiologists who share your interests and concerns and may open up employment opportunities, help you find an outside reader for your dissertation, and/or make it possible for you to discuss pharmacoepidemiologic problem with a leader in the field.
Access to reduced conference rates
Conference rates are lower for student members of ISPE than for other members. For instance, the on-site conference registration fee for in 2008 was $400 for student non-ISPE members whereas it was $390 for ISPE student members. Similarly, the onsite registration fee for the 2008 ISPE conference was significantly higher for ISPE members from industry ($1,030) and academia or government ($930). You can do the math, being a member of SISPE is economically sound!
Scholarship Eligibility
As a member of SISPE, you are also eligible to apply for a scholarship to cover some of the costs associated with attending the annual ISPE conference. In the past, financial assistance has been provided to scholarship recipients in the form of waived conference and ISPE course fees, free one-year ISPE membership, as well as partial reimbursement for travel, lodging, and other expenses. Although non-students may apply for a scholarship, student status is taken into consideration!
Opportunities to get involved
Student members have many opportunities to get involved in ISPE. Student participation is encouraged through attendance at ISPE student council meetings, through the creation of ISPE student chapters (please see the following website for more information on how to create an ISPE student chapter at your school: http://www.pharmacoepi.org/aboutISPE/board.cfm), through organizing ISPE chapter events, or by running for an executive position in the ISPE Student Council.
Voting privileges
As a member of SISPE you have voting rights when it comes to electing the chair and co-chair of the ISPE student council. The positions of chair and co-chair run for a one-year term. At least one month before the annual ICPE meeting, an announcement is sent out to the student body asking persons who are interested in becoming chair or co-chair to submit a short statement of interest which is then circulated to the student body. The formal election is held during the student council meeting with all ISPE student members present at the meeting having a right to vote. Ideally, the chair should be from North America if the next annual meeting will on this continent and the co-chair should be from Europe, and vice-versa.
You can list your ISPE membership in the Professional Societies section on your CV
You should not underestimate the role that involvement in professional societies play when applying for scholarships, submitting grant applications, or applying for jobs.
Click here for an ISPE membership application form.

Resources

ISPE Student to ISPE President, How to get involved with ISPE
How to write a good scientific abstract
How to create an effective poster
Tips for preparing a talk for a scientific conference (remember that if you secure an oral platform at ICPE, your presentation, including the question and answer period, should be no longer than 15 minutes)
Grant writing tip sheets, from the National Institutes of Health, USA
How to ace an interview, from Harvard Business School

Student Chapters

College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati
Faculty Contact: Jeff Guo

College of Pharmacy, University of Texas
Faculty Contact: James Wilson

Harvard School of Public Health
Faculty Contact: Sonia Hernández-Diaz, FISPE

School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty Contact: Til Sturmer, FISPE

University of Florida
Faculty Contact: Almut Winterstein

University of Maryland, Baltimore
Contact: Sheila Weiss Smith, FISPE

University of National Cheng Kung
Faculty contact: Yea-Huei Kao Yang

Links to Academic Programs in Pharmacoepidemiology

United States
Institution	Contact Information	Website address
Harvard University School of Public Health	Sonia Hernández-Diaz Department of Epidemiology 677 Huntington Avenue Kresge Building Room 922 Boston, MA 02115 Phone: (617) 432-3942 e-mail: shernan@hsph.harvard.edu	http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/
Temple University	Albert Wertheimer Center for Pharmaceutical Services Research and Pharmacoeconomics Temple University School of Pharmacy 3307 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19140 Phone: (215) 707-1291 Fax: (215) 707-8188 Email: albert.wertheimer@temple.edu	www.temple.edu/pharmacy
University of Florida	Abraham G. Hartzema Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Health Sciences Center, PO Box 100496 101 S. Newell Drive, Room 3339 Gainesville, FL 32610 Phone: (352) 273-6273 Fax: (352) 273-6270 Email: Hartzema@cop.ufl.edu	www.cop.ufl.edu/departments/phca/ newsite/designtools/index.htm
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy	Tracie Jones University of Maryland School of Pharmacy 220 Arch Street, Office Level One Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: (410) 706-7613 Fax: (410) 706-5394 Email: tjones@rx.umaryland.edu	www2.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/ graduate/phsr
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Nancy Colvin Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health UNC-CH 2106B McGavran-Greenberg Hall CB#7435 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Phone: (919) 966-7459 Fax: (919) 966-2089 Email: epidwww@sph.unc.edu	www.sph.unc.edu/epid
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Brian Strom Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics 824 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: (215) 898-2368 e-mail: bstrom@cceb.med.upenn.edu	http://www.cceb.upenn.edu/
Canada
Center for Evaluation of Medicines Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Saint Joseph's Hospital and McMaster University	Mitchell Levine Director, Center for Evaluation of Medicines 50 Charleton Ave Hamilton East, Ontario L8N 4A6 Phone: (905) 522-1155 ext. 4276	http://www.thecem.net/
Faculté de Pharmacie de l'Université Laval	Jocelyne Moisan Groupe de recherche en épidémiologie Hôpital du St-Sacrement du CHA 1050, chemin Ste-Foy, Québec, Québec G1S 4L8 Phone: (418) 682-7511 ext. 4654 Fax: (418) 682-7962 Email: Jocelyne.Moisan@pha.ulaval.ca	http://www.pha.ulaval.ca/
McGill University	Samy Suissa Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health Royal Victoria Hospital 1020 Pine Ave West Montreal, Québec H3A 1A2 Phone: (514) 843-1564 Fax: (514) 843-1493 Email: samy.suissa@clinepi.mcgill.ca	www.mcgill.ca/epi-biostat-occh/
Université de Montréal	Yola Moride Faculty of Pharmacy CP 6128 Succ Centre-ville Montréal, Québec H3C3J7 Phone:(514) 343-6111 ext. 3011 Fax: (514) 343-2102 E-mail: yola.moride@umontreal.ca	http://www.pharm.umontreal.ca/
Australia
LaTrobe University School of Public Health	Guie Buysen Phone: +61 (3) 9479 1750 Email: g.buysen@latrobe.edu.au	www.latrobe.edu.au/publichealth
Newcastle University Education	Education Office Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Level 3, David Maddison Building Newcastle, NSW 2300 Phone: +61 (2) 4923 6297 Fax: +61 (2) 4923 6219 E-mail: edoffice@cceb.newcastle.edu.au	http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/ cceb/index.html
Denmark
University of Southern Denmark	Jesper Hallas Winslowsparken 19,3 Odense 5000 Phone: +45 6550 3010 Email: j.hallas@health.sdu.dk	www.health.sdu.dk
France
Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux2	Annie Fourrier-Reglat 146 rue Leo Saignat EA 3676 Bordeaux Cedex 33076 Phone: +33-5-57-571561 Fax: +33-5-57-574671 Email: annie.fourrier@pharmaco.u-bordeaux2.fr	http://www.pharmacologie.u- bordeaux2.fr/fr/home.htm
Germany
Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle Wittenberg	Reinhard Neubert Phone:+49 (0) 3455525000 Fax: +49 (0) 345 55-27292 Email: reinhard.neubert@pharmazie.uni-halle.de	www.pharmazie.uni-halle.de/
The Netherlands
Erasmus University Medical Center	Miriam C Sturkenboom Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics P. O. Box 1738 Rotterdam, ZH 3000 DR Phone: +31-10-408-7489 Email: m.sturkenboom@erasmusmc.nl	http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/ nod/organisatie/ORG1237012/
University of Groningen	Lolkje T de Jong-van den Berg Dept Social Pharm & Pharmacoep Antonius Deusinglaan 1 Groningen 9713 Phone: +31-50-363-3330 ext. 7576 Fax: +31-50-363-2772 e-mail: l.t.w.de.jong-van.den.berg@rug.nl	http://www.rug.nl/umcg/faculteit/ disciplinegroepen/epidemiologie/index?lang=en
Utrecht University	Hubert G. Leufkins Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences Sorbonnelaan 16 Uithof Utrecht PO Box 80082 Utrecht 3508 TB 00 Phone: +31-30-53-7323 Fax: +31-30-253-9166 Email: h.g.m.leufkens@pharm.uu.nl	http://www.pharm.uu.nl/ffwuk.htm?/uips/
Spain
Autonomous University of Barcelona	Dolors Capell Joan-Ramon Laporte Servei de Farmacologia Clinica. Hospitals Vall d'Hebron. P Vall d'Hebron 119-129 08035 Phone: +34-93-428-30-29 Fax: +34-93-489-41-09 Email: dc@icf.uab.es	http://www.icf.uab.es/Index.html
University of Salamanca	Ramona Mateos-Campos Faculty of Pharmacy Campus Miguel de Unamuno Salamanca, Castilla y Leon 37007 Phone: +34-923-294400 ext. 1817 Fax: +34-923-294515 Email: rmateos@usal.es	http://www.usal.es/~farmacia/ posgrado/index.html
Sweden
Uppsala University	Chris Bingefors Division of Pharmaceutical Services Research BMC, Box 586, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Email: chris.bingefors@farmaci.uu.se	www.farmfak.uu.se/farm/
United Kingdom
Drug Safety Research Unit	Saad AW Shakir Bursledon Hall Blundell Lane Southampton Hampshire SO31 1AA Phone: +44-2380408600 Fax: +44-2380408609 Email: saad.shakir@dsru.org	www.dsru.org/eduresearch2002.html
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Stephen JW Evans Keppel Street MSU/121 London WCIE 7HT Phone: +44-2079272960 Fax: +20-76372853 Email: stephen.evans@lshtm.ac.uk	www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus
University of Bath	Corinne de Vries Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology University of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY Phone: +44 (0)1225 384 228 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386 114 Email: c.de-vries@bath.ac.uk	www.bath.ac.uk/prospectus/ postgrad/pharmacy

Non-Degree and Post-Graduate Programs

United States
Institution	Contact Information	Website address
Epidemiology Research Institute (ERI) Epidemiology Summer Program Dawn	Dawn Stellita Ingenix Pharmaceutical Services 1160 Parsippany Blvd. Parsippany, NJ 07054 USA Phone: 973-541-2550 x108 Fax : 973 973-541-2555	http://www.i3global.com/Solutions/ DrugSafety/EpidemiologyRiskManagement/
US Food and Drug Administration	Dr. Robert Ball FDA HFM 210 1401 Rockville Pike Rockville MD 20852-1448 Phone: 301.827.3034 Email: ballr@cber.fda.gov	http://www.fda.gov/cber/inside/ vacancy.htm#research

Useful Links

ISPE Student Council Facebook Group
Linked-In

Government Websites
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Food and Drug Administration
European Medicines Agency
Health Canada/Santé Canada

Publicly Available Data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Resources
Epidemiologic Calculators
Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages
Sensitivity Analysis Program

Sources of Information
US Census Bureau
Eurostat
National Center for Health Statistics

Miscellaneous
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Cochrane Collaboration
Epidemiology Job Board (features jobs in academia, government, non-profits, and industry)
Epidemiology Fellowship Board (features announcements for postdoctoral positions, scholarships, and internships in government, NGOs, and industry)
Job advertisements for industry clinicians, including epidemiology posts
La méthodologie épidémiologique / Epidemiologic methods
National Cancer Institute Risk Factor and Monitoring Methods
National Institutes of Health
Pan American Health Organization
Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comic)
Registry of Clinical Trials
UCLA John Snow Website
UCLA Statistical Computing
World Medical Association (including link to Helsinki Declaration)
World Health Organization
WHO Collaborating Center for Drug Statistics and Methodology (Provides you with DDD and ATC codes for all drugs provided by WHO)

Current Co-Chairs, term 2009-2010

Wendy Camelo-Castillo
PhD Student
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
wcamelo@email.unc.edu

Vera Valkoff
PhD Student
Erasmus Universite, NL
v.valkhoff@erasmusmc.nl