#38 Patient perspectives in PV: a fireside chat at the ISoP mid-year symposium

This special episode was recorded at the mid-year symposium of
the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP), 14–15 May
2025. Held in Uppsala, Sweden, the theme of the symposium was
Improving information capture for safer use of medicines. The
episode is an abridged recording of the concluding fireside chat,
where Angela Caro Rojas (president of ISoP), Linda
Härmark (director of the Drug Safety Research Unit in the
UK), Ghita Benabdallah (national pharmacovigilance centre
of Morocco, member of the IsoP advisory board), and Daniele
Sartori (senior pharmacovigilance researcher at Uppsala
Monitoring Centre), discuss patient engagement in
pharmacovigilance.


The symposium was a collaboration between ISoP and UMC.


 


Want to know more?


Visit the official website of the 2025 ISoP Mid-Year
Symposium to learn more about its sessions, speakers and
chairs. 

Not patient but im-patient – read about Sara Riggare’s
research on patient engagement and other topics.

Listen to Henry Zakumumpa talk about his study on adverse
event reporting quality in Uganda in this 2025 episode of Drug
Safety Matters.

Read about the PhD project of Tommy Emil Dzus, Improving
causality assessment in pharmacovigilance for safe and
sustainable use of medicines in health emergencies, at Oslo
Metropolitan University, Norway.

Sabine Koch is Head of the Department of Learning,
Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), at Karolinska
Institutet, Stockholm.

Details on Mikael Hoffman's research can be found on his
profile page on ResearchGate.

Take a look at what’s in store for participants at the 24th
Annual Meeting of ISoP in Cairo, on October 24–27, 2025.

Visit the websites of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU),
ISoP, Centre Anti Poison et Pharmacovigilance du Maroc, and
Uppsala Monitoring Centre, to find out more about their work.






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