Food and Drug Administration
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (DSaRM)
December 4, 2003

Holiday Inn, the Ballroom
Two Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD

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AGENDA

8:00 Call to Order and Opening Remarks Peter Gross, M.D. Chair, DSaRM
     
  Introduction of Committee  
     
  Conflict of Interest Statement Shalini Jain, PA-C, M.B.A. DSaRM, Executive Secretary

 
Issue: Current screening methods to assess sound alike and look alike proprietary drug names, in order to reduce the incidence of medication errors resulting from look alike and sound alike names.
     
8:15 Welcome Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H. Director, Office of Pharmacoepidemiology & Statistical Science Acting Director, Office of Drug Safety, ODS FDA
     
8:20 Advancing the Science of Proprietary Drug Review Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H.
     
8:40 PhRMA: Views on Trademark Evaluation Robert E. Lee, Jr., J.D.
Assistant General Patent Counsel
Eli Lilly and Company representing the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
     

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9:00 Proprietary Name Evaluation at FDA Jerry Phillips, R.Ph.
Associate Director, Medication Error Prevention,
ODS FDA

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9:20 Automatic String Matching for Reduction of Drug Name Confusion Bonnie Dorr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science University of Maryland
     
9:45 Questions to the presenters  
     
9:50 Evaluating Drug Name Confusion Using Expert Panels Richard Shangraw, Jr., PhD.
CEO - Project Performance Corporation
     
10:15 Questions to the presenter  
     
10:20 Break  
     
10:35 Focus Group Methodology Miriam Bar-Din Kimel, Ph.D.
Senior Project Manager
MEDTAP International
     
11:00 Questions to the presenter  
     
11:05 Use of Laboratory and Other Simulations in Assessing Drug Name Confusion Kraig Schell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dept. of Psychology Angelo State University
     
11:35 Quantitative Evaluation of Drug Name Safety Using Mock Pharmacy Practice Sean Hennessy, PharmD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dept. of Epidemiology & Phramacology Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
     
12:00 Questions to the presenters  
     
12:05 Lunch  
     
1:00 Open public hearing  
     
2:00 Introduction of the Issues for Discussion Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H.
     
2:15 Committee Discussion of Issues/Questions  
     
3:00 Break  
     
3:15 Continuation of Committee Discussion  
     
5:00 Adjourn  

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