The meetings below may be of interest to you. For additional information, please contact the organizers of these meetings directly.
SLC Webinar on Polypharmacy and Challenges of Optimizing Pharmacotherapy in Complex Patients, February 28
The next Scientific Liaison Coalition (SLC) webinar will focus on Polypharmacy and the Challenges of Optimizing Pharmacotherapy in Complex Patients. This webinar will be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 11:00 am–12:30 pm ET USA. The presenter is Cathy Yeung, Pharm D, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington School of Pharmacy, Seattle, Washington. In this webinar, she will review major pathways of drug metabolism and identify clinically relevant drug transporters. The impact of renal impairment on non-renal drug clearance will be discussed. Finally, a clinically relevant drug metabolism/drug transporter/food interaction will be presented. In her abstract, she notes that: “One of the greatest challenges facing clinical pharmacists is the rapid growth of polypharmacy, in which patients are prescribed 10 or more medications, and the associated increased risks of adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, and drug-disease interactions." Registration is open only to the participating societies in the SLC, of which the Society of Toxicology is a founding member. Registration is required. The SLC is a partnership of scientific societies with the goal of improving public health through a collaborative interdisciplinary approach. For more information about this coalition, visit the SLC website.
NAS Workshop on Advances in Causal Understanding for Human Health Risk-Based Decision Making, March 6–7
Discuss the current thinking surrounding causal models, how novel approaches and tools are relevant for environmental health, and how they can be incorporated into the decision-making process at a free National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) workshop on March 6–7. New molecular and bioinformatic approaches have advanced understanding of how molecular pathways are affected by exposure and the molecular networks involved in disease. However, these advances are often not yet deemed sufficient to establish causality for public health risk assessments; regulators still rely primarily on traditional apical endpoints, such as those endpoints observed in animal studies. Advances in Causal Understanding for Human Health Risk-Based Decision Making will bring together environmental health experts, toxicologists, statisticians, sociologists, epidemiologists, and regulators to discuss these issues with experts from other fields that utilize different data streams for establishing causality in complex systems. The workshop, which will be held in Washington, DC and webcast, is part of the Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions workshop series sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend. A link to registration and more information about the workshop can be found on the Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions website.
Call for CTDC10 Scientific Proposals Extended to March 10!
Message from Prof. Dr. Vesna Matović, ERT, President of CTDC10, President of Serbian Society of Toxicology
The International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX) and the Serbian Society of Toxicology (SETOX) are pleased to announce that the 10th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries (CTDC 10) and the 12th Serbian Congress of Toxicology will be held on April 18–21, 2018, in Belgrade, Serbia. The call for scientific proposals for the CTDC10 Congress is underway and we need your contributions. Our theme is “From Science to Human and Environmental Health Benefits." Please visit the website to view the Call for Scientific Proposals and to download a copy of the proposal application form. You may submit your proposal to ctdc10@pharmacy.bg.ac.rs by March 10, 2017. Thank you in advance for your continuous support and contribution, and we look forward to receiving your proposal!