Workshop Summary and Agenda

Safety Surveillance: Translating Knowledge from Other Industries

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8:30-8:45	Welcome and Introduction (Anthony Sinskey, Gigi Hirsch, Mark Trusheim, CBI)
8:45-9:45	Framing the Research Challenges in Drug Safety Surveillance (Moderated by Ernst Berndt) Panel discussion, followed by Q&A, designed to provide the context for the sessions that follow. Will highlight some of the important challenges specific to healthcare in data acquisition, signal detection, benefit/risk assessment and communication from key stakeholder perspectives. Panelists: Jeffrey Brown, Gerald Dal Pan, Lee Rucker, Paul Stang
9:45-10:00	Break
10:00-11:00	Data Extraction/Signal Detection - Part 1 Forbes Dewey, Searching and coordinating multiple databases: OWLdb Dimitris Bertsimas, Prediction of Health Care Costs and Discovery of Medical Knowledge
11:00-12:00	Data Extraction/Signal Detection - Part 2 Nitin Patel, Trawling Through Data to Connect the Dots: From 911 Terrorist Attacks to Drug Reactions Roy Welsch, Penalized Robust Methods for Variable Selection and Data-Mining
12:00-12:30	Beginning the Translation, Morning Wrap-up (Mark Trusheim)
12:30-1:15	Working Lunch
1:15-2:15	Risk Assessment George Apostolakis, Risk-informed Decision Making Kimberly Thompson, Navigating the Age of Risk Management
2:15-2:30	Break
2:30-3:00	Benefit/Risk Communication Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Safety Surveillance and Behavioral Decision Research:Connections? Lessons?
3:00-3:30	What is a Successful Safety Surveillance System? Deborah Nightingale, Enterprise Value Alignment - Lessons Learned from the Aerospace Industry
3:30-4:00	Cross-Industry Learning, Afternoon Wrap-up (Mark Trusheim)

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