Vaccine Safety: Speaker opportunity at PhV day 2019 conference

It was an absolute pleasure to attend “PhV Day 2019” on 26 July 2019 at Kohinoor hotel, Mumbai as a Speaker. I owe this opportunity to Dr.Vijay Venkatraman, Managing director and CEO  of Oviya MedSafe, and a well-known PV expert and a one of the key person in my professional circle who motivates me to learn PV more every day.

Dr.Vijay venkatraman, Durga Mane (Associate Director Delivery excellence Cognizant) and Me

I had privilege of talking about vaccine safety, and the role of different stakeholders in ensuring safety of vaccines such as WHO, National Regulatory Agencies, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals and consumers. I took this opportunity to emphasize regarding  key challenges that are unique to vaccines, few  solutions for such challenges and recent advances in vaccines. I shared the message that vaccine safety is a key to ensure success of vaccination programs across world. Vaccines are important treatment modality that save millions of live every year . I also shared the differences in vaccine pharmacovigilance and drug pharmacovigilance in terms of differences in ICSR management, RMPs, risk minimization measures, signal detection.

Pharmacovigilance Day (PhV day 2019) is a conference which is organized by Life Science Academy which is the EasyB’s business unit. They manage and organize PhV day conference across Europe and India for the past 6 years, e.g. International PV day in Barcelona in June 2019, German PV Day (6 Jun 2019), Nordic PV Day (24 Oct 2019), Italian PV Day (16 Oct 2019).

In India this was 4th conference on 26 July 2019, which was attended by approx 50-60 members comprising of domain experts from Govt (Regulators), pharmaceutical companies, service providers, academic institutes. Average experience of attendee’s was 5 years in PV domain. The speaker's panel consisted of industry veterans with average PV experience of 10+ years,  such as Dr Sanish Davis (Country Head & Senior Medical Director, Covance India), Geeta Shanbhag (Senior General Manager – Pharmacovigilance and Medico-regulatory affairs, Ipca Laboratories), Indu Nambiar (Head - Pharmacovigilance, Boehringer Ingelheim India), Dr Mangesh Kulkarni (Head - Drug Safety Practice, Tata Consultancy Services), Durga Mane (Associate Director, Delivery excellence, Cognizant),Dr Abhijit Surwade (Global Pharmacovigilance Physician at Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd) and few others”.

Topics of the conference were very interesting and were handpicked to make them relevant to Indian Pharmacovigilance scenario and the speakers chosen for the topics were absolute delight as they poured their expert knowledge about this topics. Each year PhV Day conference brings better and apt topics and consecutively apt  speakers for topics which makes it must attend conference for PV professionals.

E.g. Significance of Pharmacovigilance in Regulatory Decision-Making, Metamorphosis of Clinical Trial Safety in India - Triumph of Collaboration, Customizing a global pharmacovigilance system for Indian compliance - Perspective of an India-headquartered MNC, Bringing HCPs, MAHs and Regulatory Authorities together for Pharmacovigilance: Challenges in India and possible solutions, Regulatory Requirements and Safety Assessment of Consumer Health Products: An Overview, Significance of Internal Audits in Outsourced Global Pharmacovigilance Operations, Technology as enabler of effective safety surveillance and Future of PV.

Sponsors for the conference were Oviya MedSafe and Dialog solutions.

More details about conference: https://indianpharmacovigilanceday2019.lsacademyevents.it/speakers

Organizers details: https://lsacademy.com/events/

Written by:

Dr.shraddha Bhange.

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