International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT) symposium – Frontiers in Therapeutic Drug Management

Format: Symposium

Objectives:

1. To describe the use of Bayesian adaptive feedback for optimized dosing of drugs in tuberculosis, HIV and transplantation.
2. Explore of biomarker supported management strategies in transplantation
3. To demonstrate an electronic medical record (EMR) integrated decision support tool for application of pharmacometrics to manage individual therapy in the clinical and research settings

Topics and Speakers:
Moderator: Alexander A. Vinks, PharmD, PhD
Speakers:

1. Tawanda Gumbo, MD, Director, Research Programs in Global Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Drug monitoring and Bayesian-feedback optimized dosing for tuberculosis

1. Helen McIlleron, PhD, Director, Pharmacometrics Laboratory, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Optimizing the treatment of patients with TB/HIV  - a developing country perspective

1. Pierre Marquet, MD, PhD, Head of INSERM unit 850, University of Limoges, Head, Department of Pharmacology-Toxicology, University Hospital, Limoges, France.

Biomarkers and personalized therapy in transplantation

1. Alexander A. Vinks, PharmD, PhD, Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, , USA.

Web-based decision support for adherence monitoring and individualized immunosuppression

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