PRELIMINAR PROGRAM
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
• 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome & Introduction
Gabriela T. B. de Araújo – ISPOR Brazil Chapter President
Stephen Stephani – Congress President
• 9:00 - 10:30 First Plenary Session: Health Technology Assessment as Basis of
Reimbursement and Priorities in Health Care: Brazilian Perspective
Moderator: Marcos Ferraz, Associate Professor of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (Confirmed)
Speaker: Dirceu Raposo, President, Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency - Anvisa (Confirmed)
Speaker: Rosângela Caetano, Associate Professor of Community Health, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Confirmed)
Speaker: Alexandre Lemgruber, Economic Evaluation Manager, Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency - Anvisa (Confirmed)
Speaker: Gabriel Tannus, Executive President, Brazilian Research-Based? Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association - Interfarma (Confirmed)
Speaker: João Paulo dos Reis Neto, CAPESESP
• 10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE- BREAK
• 11:00 - 12:30 Second Plenary Session: Patient Registries: The local Perspective of Real World Database Building
Moderator: Denizar Vianna, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Department, State University of RJ (Confirmed)
Speaker: Lou Garrison, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (Confirmed)
Speaker: Arnaldo Colombo, Clinical Research Department, Federal University of São Paulo
• 12:30-14:00 LUNCH
• 14:00 -15:30 Third Plenary Session: Use of Economic Evaluations in Health Policies
Moderator: Wilson Follador, Manager on Pharmacoeconomics, Medical Division, Pfizer (Confirmed)
Speaker: Jaime Caro, Professor of Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill? University, Montreal, Canada (Confirmed)
Speaker: Stephen Stefani, Head of Oncology Department, UNIMED (Confirmed)
Speaker: Luciana Bahia, Head of Pharmacoeconomic Department, Brazilian Society of Diabetes (Confirmed)
• 15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE- BREAK
• 16:00 – 17:30 Fourth Plenary Session: Economic Modeling and Local Adaptation
Moderator: Marcelo Fonseca, Physician of Clinical Research Department, Federal University of São Paulo (Confirmed)
Speaker: Uwe Siebert, Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health, Medical Decision Making & HTA, UMIT, Hall/Innsbruck, Austria (Confirmed)
Speaker: Carisi Polanczyk, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Confirmed)
Speaker: Inge Duchesne, Director Pharmacoeconomics & Market Access Latin America Region, Jansen-Cilag? Brazil (Confirmed)
• 17:30 – 18:00 Next Day Workshop Presentation and Groups Division
Group 1 - Health Technology Assessment
Group 2 - Real World Database
Group 3 - Economic Evaluations in Health Policies
Group 4 - Economic Modeling

Wednesday, 28 March 2007
• 8:30 – 12:30 Workshop Group’s Discussion
• 10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE- BREAK
• 11:00 - 12:30 Workshop Group’s Discussion
• 12:30-14:00 LUNCH
• 14:00 -16:00 Groups Presentations (30 minutes for each one)
• 16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE- BREAK
• 16:30 – 18:00 Final Plenary Session

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