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Putting Patients First: Leveraging Global Identification of Medicinal Products Standards to Strengthen the Drug Supply Chain and Improve Lives
Monday June 16, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
TBD
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate

This session will explore the critical role of Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) standards in addressing global healthcare challenges, such as pharmacovigilance, drug shortages, and medicinal product traceability.

Learning Objectives

Discuss how IDMP standards address drug shortages by enhancing supply chain transparency and traceability; Identify the challenges and opportunities in implementing IDMP globally, focusing on the need for regulatory collaboration and interoperability; Explain the significance of global identifiers, such as PhPID, in ensuring consistent product identification across regions.

Chair

Janis Bernat, MSc

Speaker

HealthCare Professional Perspective on the Issue and Examples
Joseph Kannarkat, MD

Panelist
Peter Hjelmstrom, MD, PhD


Speakers
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Janis Bernat

Director, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, IFPMA, Switzerland
Janis leads cross-functional activities in regulatory science and international health policy for IFPMA, while partnering with policy experts and stakeholders to strengthen the pharmaceutical regulatory environment. She is responsible for guiding the organization’s regulatory team... Read More →
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Peter Hjelmstrom

Director/CEO, Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Sweden
Peter Hjelmström is the Director/CEO of Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) and he has overall responsibility for the operations of the centre. Peter is physician and scientist, with MD and PhD degrees from Karolinska Institutet, and he did his postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University... Read More →
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Joseph Kannarkat

Physician, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
Joseph is a physician with a deep interest in drug regulatory policy and has previously published articles in venues like The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Brookings Institution. His research interests include studying the... Read More →
Monday June 16, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
TBD Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW Washington, DC 20001-3614 USA
  09: Regulatory, Forum |   14: DIAmond, Forum

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