Dear Colleagues and Friends, 

We are very happy to inform you that the following organizations have joined the list of conveners of the conference:

Kazan State Technology University,

Institute of organic and physical chemistry named after A.E. Arbuzov,

Tatneftechiminvest-holding,

Russian Scientific Society of Pharmacologists

The preliminary programme of the conference:

http://www.evidenceupdate-tatarstan.ru/confer/program

and the list of speakers:

http://www.evidenceupdate-tatarstan.ru/confer/reporterslist

The third informational letter

The Kazan State Medical Academy,

Eurasian academy of medical sciences,

GEOTAR publishing group

Kazan State Technology University,

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan,

Institute of organic and physical chemistry named after A.E. Arbuzov,

The Kazan State Medical University

Russian Scientific Society of Pharmacologists

Tatneftechiminvest-holding,

The Republic of Tatarstan Health Care Control

are organizing an International Conference «Quality information – for quality use of medicines» (15-16 October 2010) timed to the 25th anniversary of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy of the KSMA and to the 10th anniversary of formulary system implementation in the Republic of Tatarstan in the framework of the WHO Essential Medicines Concept.

The most important issues of pharmaceutical policy, medicine regulation and use which directly depend on medicine information, on scientific basis of medicine efficacy and safety assessment and medicines’ value to public health as well as problems of delivery of this information to health community and public will be discussed and put on the high political agenda.

Among the priority problems are the following: misleading medicine information and ways to its understanding; conflict of interest in modern healthcare, activities of sales representatives and the impact on health systems, which were identified by the leadership of the Russian Federation – its President D.A. Medvedev and Prime-minister V.V. Putin as the priority issues for change.

The World International leaders in medicine information – representatives of International Society of Independent Drug Bulletins, International Organisation “Healthy Scepticism”, Le revue Prescrire, the Cochrane Collaboration, the World Health Organisation and Russian scientists have been invited to participate in the conference.

The Organizing Committee warmly invites you to take part in the Conference.

The scientific program will include plenary sessions, seminars, workshops and young scientists’ competition on the following topics:

Quality/rational use of medicines

Information technologies in pharmaceuticals, clinical pharmacology and medicine regulation and policies

Pharmacovigilance, safety of medicines

Evidence-based medicine in clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical policies

International integration and harmonisation in medicine regulation

Pharmaceutical policy and its analysis

Development of the Russian domestic pharmaceutical sector

Programmes of medicine supply management;

Formulary system and standards in healthcare systems, development of guidelines

Drug supply systems for hospitals and communities

Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics

Information about drugs’ mechanism of action – for quality clinical use.

Synthesis and technology of new medicinal agents and formulations.

Medical information for sport and healthy life-style.

The Organizing Committee invites you to submit abstracts. The Conference Proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Journal “Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics” (Publishing Group "GEOTAR-Media").

Articles’ preparation

The article should include the following sections: Background, Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Thearticle should not exceed 5 pages (A4).

All requirements of “Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics” journal should be obeyed.

The text of the article: 12, Times New Roman, single spaced, margins 2,5 cm on all sides.

Example of article lay-out

THE TITLE

Background: brief

Objective: clear-cut, well-defined

Methods: defining methods of statistical analysis

Results: concrete specific data, WITHOUT TABLES OR GRAPHS!

Conclusions: corresponding to the objectives and methods.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Council of the Conference. Only successfully peer-reviewed materials will be published.

Abstracts can be delivered to the Organizing Committee by email, as attachments (word or RTF files), to the following addresses:

clinpharm17@list.ruclinpharm17@list.ru

On-line submission and on-line registration for the conference are at:

http://www.evidenceupdate-tatarstan.ru/conferen/

Please, note whether you would like your report to be oral or as a stand report.

Deadline for articles submission – 20 August 2010

Payment for articles’ publication 450 Russian rubles and 250 rubles for the abstracts’ publication.

The method of payment

Payments should be transferred to the following bank details, family name and the initials of the author must be included.

Bank Details

The purpose of the payment: Paying for the publication

Recipient: Eurasian Academy of Medical Sciences (Soviet department #6669/07, Kazan city

Banking details (in Russian):

Transfer in rubles:

Р/С 40703810062190100582 в ОСБ «БАНК ТАТАРСТАН» №8610 Г.КАЗАНИ,

БИК 049205603 К/С 30101810600000000603

ИНН 1653005824 КПП 165501001

Hotel information will be sent in future email messages.

Organizing Committee:

Russian Federation

420012, Kazan,

Mushtari street, 11,

Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy

Tel: +7 8432 73 08 02

Fax: +7 8432 73 08 02

E-mail:

MZ.omkiblt@tatar.ru

MZ.omkiblt@tatar.ru