ISPOR-2019 MEGA EVENTS REPORT

ISPOR-2019 MEGA EVENTS REPORT

1. SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

AND CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT - A GLOBAL SCENARIO

02 MARCH 2019

Department of Pharmacy Practice, Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in association

with International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Amaravati

Regional Chapter conducted 2nd National Conference on emerging trends in Health Technology

Assessment and Clinical Data Management – A Global scenario on 2nd March 2019.

02/03/2019

The conference was inaugurated by Dr.G. Subba Rao , Principal, Guntur Medical College, Guntur,

Dr. S. Kumaravelu, Major General (Retd.), Senior consultant Neurologist, Ramesh Hospitals, Guntur,

Vara prasad Nagidi, Founder and CEO, Arete IT Services, Vijayawada, Dr. Devarshi Bhattacharaya,

Assistat Director, Kalam Institute of Health Technology, Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone , A.P. ,

Harikrishna Chand, Senior Clinical Data Analyst ( Primary CDA), Hyderabad, Sandeep Kumar,

Associate Manager, IQVIA, Bangalore. Sri. Y. Sujit Kumar, Secretary, Chalapathi Educatioal

Society, Sri.Y.V.Anjaneyulu, President, Chalapathi Educational Society presided over the

inauguration function, Prof. Rama Rao Nadendla Principal has given the welcome address. Dr.

G.Subba Rao garu, Dr.S.Kumaravelu garu and Vara Prasad Nagidi garu enumerated the importance

of Health Technology Assessment and Clinical Data Management and importance in the present

clinical scenario. A total of 317 participants from various institutions attended the conference.

Session: I Current scenario of Health Technology Assessment in India and opportunities for

health care professionals.

Speaker: Dr. Devarshi Bhattacharya, Assistant Director, Kalam Institute of Health Technology,

Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone , A.P.

Dr. Devarshi Bhattacharya explained what Health Technology Assessment is and need of HTA in the

present clinical scenario. He also explained about economic evaluations in health care setting and

their influence in decision making. He explained the need of HTA in the present economic condition

of India where only 2-3% of total budget is spent on health. He exampled some situations where HTA

involved in decision making and in the development of cost effective medicines and medical devices.

He suggested students to con concentrate on systemic reviews and meta analysis, statistical analysis,

health economic modeling, scientific writing and price analytics to grab opportunities in HTA.

Session II: Clinical Data Management introduction and scope

Speaker: Mr. Harikrishna Chanda, Sr. Clinical Data Analyst(Primary CDA), Hyderabad.

Mr. Harikrishna Chanda explained about various phases of clinical trials and how data will be

generated from these phases. He listed top clinical research companies that are investing more money

on clinical research. He explained how the data will be processed during a clinical research. He

explained the advantages India have being a hub for CDM. He also scope of CDM. He explained

about paper CRF data and EDC data. He enumerated the process of data flow in CDM AND Data

Management Plan which is a guide o handle data during the course of the study. He elaborated about

CRF annotation and E CRF and tracking of CRF in paper CRF. He also elaborated about discrepancy

types and discrepancy management. He explained about SAE reconciliation and coding with the help

of Med DRA. He also explained different tools used in the management of clinical data such as

Oracle, Rave ( Medidata) and Inform etc..

Session III: Tools in CDM

Speaker: Mr. Harikrishna Chanda, Sr. Clinical Data Analyst (Primary CDA), Hyderabad.

Mr. Harikrishna Chanda elaborated about CRF annotation and E CRF and tracking of CRF in paper

CRF. He also elaborated about discrepancy types and discrepancy management. He explained about

SAE reconciliation and coding with the help of Med DRA. He also explained different tools used in

the management of clinical data such as Oracle, Rave (Medidata) and Inform etc..

Session IV: Hands on training on Clinical Data Management

Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Associate Manager, IQVIA, Bangalore.

Mr. Sandeep Kumar explained about query management and discrepancy management. He

demonstrated how to generate a query and how to answer a query with the help of Rave software. He

explained about manual queries and automated queries. He explained about do’s and don’ts in query

management.

Session V: Open Forum

Guest speakers Mr. Harikrishna Chanda, Mr. Sandeep Kumar and Dr. Devarshi Bhattacharya

interacted with delegates and clarify their doubts related to the career opportunities, nature of job,

qualification required for the students to enter into the field. Many of the student delegates were

actively interacted with panelist and clarify their doubts.

Students delegates interacted actively and also answered the questions asked by guest speakers were

awarded with prizes. All the participants received certificate of participation. Students delegates were

given positive feedback about the programme.

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2. SECOND NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON META ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMATIC

REVIEW: A PHARMACOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE IN INDIAN SCENARIO

19/7/19 and 20/7/19

Department of Pharmacy Practice, Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in association

with International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Amaravati

Regional Chapter conducted 2nd National workshop on meta analysis and systematic review : A

Pharmacoeconomic perspective in Indian scenario on 19/7/19 and 20/7/19.

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. D. S. Raju Naidu, medical superintendent, Government

General Hospital, Guntur, Dr. N.V.Sundharachary, Professor & Head Department of Neurology,

Government General Hospital, Guntur, Dr.Venigalla Bala Bhaskar Rao Director of Anjai

superspeciality hospitals, Guntur. Y. Sujit Kumar, Secretary, Chalapathi Educatioal Society,

Sri.Y.V.Anjaneyulu, President, Chalapathi Educational Society presided over the inauguration

function, Prof. Rama Rao Nadendla Principal has given the welcome address. Dr. D. S. Raju Naidu

garu, Dr. N.V.Sundharachary garu and Dr.Venigalla Bala Bhaskar Rao garu enumerated the

importance of meta analysis and systematic review : A Pharmacoeconomic perspective in Indian

scenario. A total of 250 participants from various institutions attended the conference.

On 19/7/19 ;

Session:I Overview on systematic literature and review

Speaker: Mr.Aditya Kataria, Consultant, IQVIA – India.

Mr.Aditya kataria elaborated about the methods to collect data,critically appraise research studies,

and synthesize studies that directly relate to the systematic review question.examination of clinical

tests,public health interventions.He also explained regarding developing a search startergy and

evidence pyramid,practice of evidence based medicine and strenghtsand weaknesses of various study

designs and various steps involved in literature review.

Session:2 Research questions, PICOS

Speaker: Mr.Aditya Kataria, Consultant, IQVIA – India.

Mr.Aditya Kataria here in this session explained regarding the framing a research question

and what are the points to be considered during framing the research question. He also explained

regarding the PICO parameters like population to be selected based on the area of research question

and selection of intervention accordingly and selection of standard comparator and outcome to be

measured with help of an example of Diabetes mellitus

Session:3 Types of study designs

Speaker: Mr.Aditya Kataria, Consultant, IQVIA – India

Mr. Adity Kataria explained about the types of study designs and what are the steps followed in

different study designs. Here he explained about the experimental and observational studies. As a part

of experimental he explained about the randomised control trials and selection of different

randomised control trials for meta analysis. In case of observational studies he explained about the

cohortstudies, case control studies, various case reports and other studies and finally ended with

evidence pyramid.

Then, Poster presentations, leaflet competitions, quiz prelims and cultural competitions were helded

On 20/7/19 ;

Session:4 Search strategies


Here in this session Mr.Aditya Kataria explained about the different data bases to be used to

search the literature which is existing through the visual explanation of Pub-Med as one of the search

startergy. He also explained regarding the different steps to be followed to evaluate the literature. He

also added information on other data baseas like Embase and med watch and other clinical trial sites.

Session:5 Types of Data in Literature, Data Extraction

Speaker: Mrs. Akriti Chahar Tomar, Consultant, National Health System Resource cenre,

Ministry of Health & family welfare, Govt. of India

Mrs.Akriti Chahar Tomar initially summarized the first day sessions and then moved on to the

types of data in literature. Here she briefly explained about the discrete and continuous DATA. She

also explained the data extraction with an example of cardiac stents versus sodiumnitroprusside in

management of CAD attacks. She also summarized about the steps involved in research process and

mainly focused on the synthesis of Data.

Session : 6 Database for literature search


Mr,Aditya Kataria explained about the literature search and here he showed what are the different

databases used to search literature. Here he quoted several databases as examples for literature search

and mainly explained about how to search a strategy in the Pub-med and how to collect different

combined search strategy articles.

Then Patient counseling, Prescription handling and quiz competitions were helded.

Session : 7 (Hands on training)Meta Analysis (Revman 5.3) & Interpretation

Speaker: Mrs. Akriti Chahar Tomar, Consultant, National Health System Resource centre,

Ministry of Health & family welfare, Govt. of India

Mrs.Akriti chahae Tomar carried out this session with validation of data of two articles relating

to the computerised alerts to the parents of newborns which was given priorly to students as printouts

with help of Rev-Man software provided by the cochranel ibrary. Here she also briefed out about the

submission of protocol and data entry and Forest plot interpretation. She also added some points on

Winbugs software.

Session 8: Open Forum

Guest speakers Mr. Aditya Kataria, Mrs. Akriti Chahar Tomar interacted with delegates and clarify

their doubts Many of the student delegates were actively interacted with panelist and clarify their

doubts.

Students delegates interacted actively and also answered the questions asked by guest speakers were

awarded with prizes. All the participants received certificate of participation. Students delegates were

given positive feedback about the programme.

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3. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW INSIGHTS OF

PHAMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY, PHARMACOECONOMICS AND PHARMACOVIGILANCE

17th & 18th September 2019

Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in association with International Society of

Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research – Acharya Nagarjuna University (ISPOR – ANU) Student

Chapter, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Alumni Association Chalapathi Institute of

Pharmaceutical Sciences organized Second International conference on new insights of

Phamacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacovigilance on 17th and 18th September 2019.

The theme of the conference is “Pragmatic approach for better decision making – Global versus National

scenario.

17/09/2019 (First day of the conference)

The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Sabinkar Babulal, Superintendent, Government

General Hospital, Guntur, Dr. Rajesh Balakrishnan, Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of

Virginia, USA. Dr. Gareth Sim Maw Shin, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University

of Malaya, Malaysia, Dr. S. Planisamy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, International Medical

University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dr. K.G. Revi Kumar, Director, Kerala Institute of Drug

Studies, Trivendrum, Kerala , Dr. Vivekanandan Kalaiselvan, Principal Scientific Officer, PvPI, IPC,

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Dr. S. B. Uday Shankar, Internal Medicine Specialist, Ahalya Nursing

Home, Guntur, Sri. Y. Sujit Kumar, Secretary, Chalapathi Educational Society, Sri.Y.V.Anjaneyulu,

President, Chalapathi Educational Society presided over the inaugural function. Prof. Rama Rao

Nadendla Principal has given the welcome address. Dr. Sabinkar Babulal enlightened and pointed out

the importance of this conference, and he made aware the students regarding benefits of this

conference. Dr. Rajesh Balakrishnan had given an inspirational talk about the pharmacist and the

pharmacy profession and how a pharmacist can help for the betterment of public health. Dr. Gareth

Sim Maw Shin expressed his pleasure for organizing international conference which focuses more on

pharmacoepidemiology and economics. Dr. S. Palanisamy enlightened the minds of delegates by

coating some of his professional experiences related to pharmacy services. Dr. Vivekanandan

Kalaiselvan, praised the student delegates who participated in the conference with a great enthusiasm

and also the organizers for organizing the conferences with good speakers of professional excellence.

Dr. S.B. Uday Shankar briefed about the role of pharmacist in Indian health care scenario.

Five plenary lectures were delivered during the two days of conference by foreign and Indian

speakers on the topics related to Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacovigilance

and Pharmacogenomics.

Technical sessions:

Plenary Lecture: 01 – Medicinal product Safety Monitoring

Dr. Vivekanandan Kalaiselvan detailed about the safety monitoring process of drugs and medical

devices. He explained about the medical device rule 2017 and ADR reporting in India. He discussed

different aspects of medical device Adverse event reporting, causality assessment and regulatory

actions. He also explained different medical device testing laboratories in India and listed out various

notified medical devices that will comes under materiovigilance. He opined that student of Pharm.D

and Pharmacy Practice are having a great scope in materiovigilance. Delegates interacted

enthusiastically after his session and clarified their doubts regarding pharmacovigilance and

materiovigilance.

Plenary Lecture 02 – Evaluation and application of pharmacoeconomics for Pharmacist

Dr. Rajesh Balakrishnan Explained various pharmacoeconomic evaluations like cost effective

analysis, cost utility analysis, cost benefit analysis and cost minimization analysis. He explained in

detail about various steps involved in conducting a cost effective analysis. He exampled various case

studies of pharmacoeconomic evaluations in an easy and understandable manner. He also explained

about current challenges and future directions of pharmacoeconomic research. He interacted with the

students after the session and explained how the scenario of pharmacoecoeconomics is changing day

by day and the skills required by the students in order to grab the opportunities.

Plenary lecture: 03 – Adopting Pharmacoeconomics to shape efficient health care system in

India

Prof.K.G.Revikumar addressed about the development of Pharmacy education in India and

also the development and incorporation of Pharmacoeconomics into the curriculum. He also

explained various Pharmacoeconomics methods such as cost effective analysis, cost minimization

analysis, cost utility analysis and cost benefit analysis which should be incorporated in

curricula and also in practice to make aware the budding pharmacist about the importance of

Pharmacoeconomics in health care decision making. He explained the need of application of

Pharmacoeconomic principles in Indian health care system to reduce the health expenditure of Indian

population.

Plenary Lecture: 04 – Adverse Drug Reactions and Drug interactions – A Potential Threat to

life

Dr. S. Palanisamy described the problems faced by the patients and physicians due to the adverse

drug reactions and drug interactions. He quoted several examples from various research articles how

adverse drug reactions and drug interactions are affecting the patients and increasing health care

costs. He also briefed about prescription legibility issues and poly pharmacy and how they adversely

affecting the health of the patients. He explained the students about opportunities for pharmacy

students in various sectors of pharmacy such as academics, industry, hospital and research. In student

interaction he answered the questions posed by the students regarding pharmacy education in

Malaysia.

18/09/2019 (Second day of the conference)

Plenary Lecture: 05 – Pharmacovigilance, Current and future considerations in regulatory and

pharmaceutical industry

Mr.T.Viswanath, Head - safety case Processing, Pharmacovigilance Operations, Novartis, Hyderabad

explained the importance of patient data safety and how it will be maintained in pharmacovigilance

companies. He explained global and national challenges in patient safety. He also explained about the

data privacy and Indian regulation on pharmacovigilance. At the end he briefed various traditional

and modern ways of reporting the data.

Plenary Lecture: 06 – Pharmacogenomics

Dr. Gareth Sim Maw Shin discussed about differential drug efficacy in perspective of

pharmacogenomics. He discussed how genetic factors will affect the drug response and the need of

personalized medicine. He enumerated the need of pharmacogenomics in developing new drugs and

its effect on health care costs. He explained the role of genetics in drug addiction and specific genes

involving various addictive disorders.

Plenary Lecture: 07 – Scope and future of Pharm.D – A Physician’s perspective in current

scenario

Dr. B.S.Uday Shankar enumerated the importance of clinical pharmacist in providing patient care. He

explained various skills that a clinical pharmacist should acquire to practice as a clinical pharmacist

and to act as liaison between patient and physician. He briefed about the common medication errors

made by physician and nurses and how the knowledge of clinical pharmacy will help to avoid those

medication errors.

Valedictory of two day international conference sponsored by AICTE was close on heels. The

dignitaries graced the occasion were Dr. Gareth Sim Maw Shin, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of

Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Dr. S. Planisamy, Department of Pharmacy Practice,

International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dr. S. B. Uday Shankar, Internal

Medicine Specialist, Ahalya Nursing Home, Guntur, Mr.T.Viswanath , Head - safety case Processing,

Pharmacovigilance Operations, Novartis, Hyderabad, Sri.Y.V.Anjaneyulu, President, Chalapathi

Educational Society and Prof. Rama Rao Nadendla. All the dignitaries urged the participants to be

technically sound in the area of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology because the

pharmacist being circumcentre of physician, patient and nurse in addressing the issues related to

medicines. Dr. S.B. Uday shankar opined the patient engagement plays key role in strengthening the

healthcare of India. He mentioned patient should actively participate or report any adverse events or

outbreak of new or recurrent diseases to Pharmacovigilance centre. This ultimately changes the

policies by the involvement of all major stakeholders of health.

Details of Participants:

A total of 300 students, research scholars and faculty were registered for this two days

international conference from 2 states and from all over Andhra Pradesh.

95 students presented their papers in poster presentation which were evaluated by external

experts and 112 students participated in events like quiz, dancing and singing. Best 04 posters and

were selected from each disciplinary and were awarded with Cash prizes of Rs. 3,000, 2,000, 1,000

respectively and winners of 4th prize were awarded with a memento. The delegates excelled in

various competitions were awarded with a total cash prize of Rs. 28,000.

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4. A SYMPOSIUM ON PHARMACEUTICAL CARE -2019

19th OCTOBER-2019

We on behalf of ISPOR ANU student chapter in association with Dept. of Pharmacy Practice,

Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences have conducted a “A SYMPOSIUM ON

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE” on 19th October 2019 at Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical

Sciences, Lam, Guntur.

The program was inaugurated and Message delivered by Dr. G. Prabhakar, Clinical pharmacologist,

HCG hospitals, Bangalore and Prof. Nadendla Rama Rao, Principal of Chalapathi institute of

pharmaceutical sciences, followed by Guest lecture of Dr. G. prabhakar about Pharmaceutical care

and discussion regarding career opportunities for Pharm.D students globally. Guest lecture scheduled

from 10.00 AM to 11.00 AM

Guest lecture emphasize mainly on

1. What is pharmaceutical care

2. How to develop a pharmaceutical care plan

3. Role of clinical pharmacist to implement the care plan

4. Advantages of the care plan for better patient outcomes

5. Career opportunities for Doctor of Pharmacy students in India and Abroad

Several competitions conducted on the symposium day like quiz competition, painting competition

and Group discussion

→ In quiz competition total of 37 teams (4 Participants/team) from 5 different pharmacy colleges in

and around Guntur were actively participated in the competition. The quiz preliminary round has

been scheduled from 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM, pre-finals and Finals from 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM

→10 teams were screened based on the results of preliminary round which was conducted for

duration of 30 minutes.

5 teams were eliminated after 3 rounds,

1 st round comprising of Current affairs (4 Questions/team)

2 nd round comprising of Pharma subjects (4 Questions/team)

3 rd round comprising of Pharmaceutical care (3 Questions/team)

The final 5 teams competed over 3 rounds which are as follows:

4 th round is rapid fire (5 questions at once/team)

5 th round is it’s your turn (3 questions/team) which avails the opportunity for the participant to select

the question on their own from the given set of questions.

6 th round is Jackpot round in which participants are provided with the buzzer (20 questions).

Painting competition was conducted on the Theme- Emergency management (First aid), random

topics were given to the participants on the spot and total number of participants was 20. The event

has been scheduled from 11.45 AM to 12.30 PM and followed by Lunch break from 12.30 PM to

1.30 PM.

Group discussion was conducted on the Theme- Reverting system of Medicine in India- Your Notion,

it was conducted in two rounds with the total number of participants were 45, there were divided in to

three teams after first round in each team 3 member were selected and remaining were eliminated.

The second was conducted with 9 participants and out of nine top five were won the prizes.

VALEDICTORY:- Prof. Ramarao Nadendla , Principal, CLPT, Guntur along with Dr. P. Sarath

Kumar, Assistant civil surgeon, GGH, Guntur has distributed prizes to winners and Appreciated the

ISPOR ANU STUDENT CHAPTER TEAM , STAFF , STUDENTS for making grand success of the

Symposium-2019.

In Quiz the 1st prize which is cash prize of RS.3000/- was awarded to R. Ram Prasad (VI/VI

Pharm.D), Sk. Abdul Rehaman (VI/VI Pharm.D), Suresh (IV/VI Pharm.D), Rahul Salmon

(IV/IV B. Pharmacy).

The 2nd prize which is cash prize of RS.2000/- was awarded to M.Dinesh, T.Vamsi (IV/VI Pharm.

D), D.V. Harsha, K. Sai Krishna (III/IV B.Pharmacy)

The 3rd prize which is cash prize of RS.1000/- was awarded to B. Srujana, J.Allan Rose, S.

Tejaswini, Tanuja ( V/VI Pharm.D)

The 4th prize which is Files was awarded to L.Sindhu Madhuri, P. Uma maheshwari, K. Nava

Komali, M. Yogitha (IV/VI Pharm-D)

The 5th price which is Files was awarded to K. Bhuvaneswari, R.Sai Yamini, N.Sindhura, P. Sai

prasanna of V/VI Pharm.D, Vignan Pharmacy College.

In painting the 1st prize was awarded to Y. Sudharani (V/VI Pharm.D), CLPT

2nd prize was awarded to A. Venkatesh, Vignan College of Pharmacy

3rd prize was awarded to M. Raja Kumari, Vignan College of Pharmacy

4th prize was awarded to N. Keerthi Priya, (III/IV B.Pharmacy), CLPT

5th prize was awarded to G. Oohitha, Vijaya College of Pharmacy

In group discussion the 1st prize was awarded to K.Naga sri (V/VI Pharm.D)

2nd prize was awarded to K. Jyothirmayi , Vignan College of Pharmacy

3rd prize was awarded to D. Srividya , Vignan College of Pharmacy

4th prize was awarded to B. Jaya Krishna (IV/IV B. Pharmacy)

5th prize was awarded to S.J.N. Mohana (V/VI Pharm.D)

Thank you very much for our dynamic Principal and Management, Staff for excellent Support

to made Grand Success.

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