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POLICY ARTICLE The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) – EAHP’s members take stock
Mariona Ribó
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Kees Neef, 20 years of dedication to EAHP When and why did you join the EAHP? My first contact with EAHP was as a speaker in a satellite symposium on Automation in drug distribution. I reported our experience with a distribution robot called Homerus and the Pixus cabinets. That was in the year 2000. In 2006, I joined the Scientific Committee as country representative for The Netherlands. The structure of the committee back then was to add two hospital pharmacists to the SC from the country where the congress took place in order to add some “couleur local” to the committee. This ended when EAHP grew and had to move to bigger congress centres. Now, we automatically go back to the same centres in the same countries as very few congress centres can accommodate EAHP’s scientific programme. That is also the reason that the previous congress in Barcelona was only 5 years ago. After the congress in Maastricht in 2008 I was asked to remain a member of the committee. After 4 years, I succeeded Vagn Handlos as the SC Chairman and became a Board member with the title Director of Education, Science and Research. When comparing your first Congress (Maastricht 2008) with your last (Barcelona 2019), how much has changed? The change between those years is enormous. Looking at the attendance figures – from 1800 participants in Maastricht to around 3400 last year, this indicates that the congress is appreciated more and more. The structure of the programme has evolved from incidental lectures or presentations to a programme with a theme and presentations linked to our professional activities and the
European Statements of Hospital Pharmacy. This gives a strong backbone to a substantial educational programme. People come to our congress (the second largest congress of hospital pharmacy in the world after the ASHP Mid-year congress) mainly due to the high educational content. Our congress is internationally recognised looking at the number of participants attending from outside of Europe. In which direction did the Scientific Committee evolve under your chairmanship? I think that I have given more structure in the discussions on the content of the seminars. The most important meeting of the year became the May meeting. In this meeting the theme and global content of the next congress is set. Thanks to the computer program X-mind and the structure of the statements, this discussion can take place and lead to a very fruitful result. Also, the abstract and poster judgement procedure has been simplified. Several years ago, we were busy making a selection of submitted poster abstracts on a weekend in November. We all (21 committee members) were busy on Saturday until midnight to review and discuss the poster abstracts. We changed this timeconsuming activity to a process where pairs of two SC members judge a fixed number of abstracts (100120). This simplified the process as the abstracts are only brought into the full SC meeting if both review members don’t agree. I can say with certainty, that the SC has become more professional in their work. Looking back at the countless Scientific Committee meetings, what is your favourite memory?
I have two favourite events that often come back in my memory. First were the exhausting November meetings of the poster abstract reviews where we worked until midnight to get everything ready in time. The second one was the snow in Paris during our congress which was my first independently organised congress after succeeding Vagn Handlos as the SC Chairman. We launched the first Synergy satellite. The key speaker of that seminar sent an email that he was unable to come to Paris due to agenda problems. What to do: Cancel the first Synergy? Find another speaker? We finally found another speaker but that was not the only problem. The night preceding the start of the congress there was an exceptional snowfall in the northern part of France, including Paris. 10 cm of snow made train, plane and car travel virtually impossible. Some people shared a taxi from Brussels to Paris, some people arrived by train with a delay of 12 – 24 hours and some people returned home. What piece of advice would you provide to me as your successor? Take care of your Scientific Committee members. They voluntarily spend a lot of time working in the committee: 6 long weekends annually, 3 keynotes, 18 – 20 seminars and some workshops, the Synergy satellites and an increasing number of Synergy Masterclasses. Keep the scientific character of the presentations at high a level as this why people attend EAHP’s educational events. Thomas De Rijdt, EAHP Scientifi c Committee Member
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