68th FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Basel, Switzerland.

Workshops August 29 – 30,
Congress August 31 – September 4

Congress Location: Congress Centre, Basel



Full programme and Registration: www.fip.org/CONGRESS/basel08
Package fee including Congress and one pre-satellite Workshop: Euro 1225 / Euro 550 (student / recent graduate). FIP members pay Euro 975 till August 1. Additional fee after August 1 is Euro 50.

INDUSTRIAL SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Sunday 31 August
IPS Welcome Reception -  17:00 - 19:00  - Pharmacy museum  Basel.
The Reception holds a presentation from curator Dr. Michael Kessler.
sponsored by the Swiss Society of Industrial Pharmacists

Wednesday 3 September:
Industrial Pharmacy Dinner - Teufelhof, Basel.
reception for registered participants before dinner


MONDAY 1 SEPT – 7 PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS
     Healthcare systems in change
     Can technology help to reach better adherence to medications?
     Pharmacy management and dispensing to hiv-patients in developing countries
     Making paediatric medicines work
     Advocating for pharmacy
     Dissolution testing: a pivotal tool for development and quality of drugs 
     Combating counterfeit medicines in Africa

MONDAY 1 SEPT – 5 PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS
     The role of pharmacists in primary healthcare in the developing world
     IT solutions in pharmacy practice, preview and highlights
     National imperatives in good pharmacy practice demand a patient focus
     Clinical biology in european countries
     Vaccines

TUESDAY 2 SEPT – 6 PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS
     Pharmacy practice: present and future
     Forum for policy makers in pharmacy practice: trends in community pharmacy
     How to promote lifelong learning through curriculum design?
     Professional and regulatory issues of patient safety
     Cooperation between clinical biologists, pharmacists and physicians for the benefit of patients
     Natural products as therapeutic modulators

TUESDAY 2 SEPT – 6 PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS
     Application of individualised medicine in clinical practice
     Community pharmacy – business or healthcare?
     Medicines information for patients
     Applying the consensus statements of the global conference on the future of hospital pharmacy
     State-of-the art production of biotech products
     Targeted drug delivery: from concept to clinical reality

WEDNESDAY 3 SEPT – 5 PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS
     Patients as partners
     The practitioners’ day
     Clinical hospital pharmacy practice – from dreams to reality and beyond
     Oral communications on pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug delivery technologies
     Biosimilars: dream to reality

WEDNESDAY 3 SEPT – 6 PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS
     Workforce, competence and education reform
     The practitioners day - short oral communications and discussions
     Patient safety, risk assessment and risk management
     Patients in control of their records
     Meeting the pharmacy education needs for a career in pharmaceutical industry or research
     Biosimilars: from science to practice

THURSDAY 4 SEPT – 5 PARALLEL MORNING SESSIONS
     Pharmacoeconomics for practitioners: an opportunity to enhance your practice
     Medication reviews -  collaboration between pharmacists, physicians and patients
     Developing higher level practice- visions, experiences and practice
     Healthcare to logistics, pharmacy practice in the emergency arena
     Implementation of quality by design and risk management - overcoming the practical hurdles

THURSDAY 4 SEPT – 3 PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSIONS
     Pharmacoeconomics for practitioners: an opportunity to enhance your practice
     Healthcare to logistics, pharmacy practice in the emergency arena (part ii
     Translational science: research into clinical practice


BROADEN YOUR SCOPE AND NETWORK AT THIS EXCITING PHARMACY CONGRESS

COMBINE THIS CONGRESS WITH ONE OF THREE GREAT 2-DAY PRE-SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
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