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Pharmacovigilance for Drug Safety, Regulatory Affairs and PV Auditors – Broadening your Knowledge Training Course

This course has been designed for those wishing to expand their knowledge in pharmacovigilance and explore what they would like to understand next in this complex area.

29-31 January 2025
+ 7-9 May 2025, 29 September-1 October 2025 »

from £1599

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Course overview

The importance of drug and medical device safety is paramount and the regulations and requirements applicable to the discipline of pharmacovigilance are extensive and complex.

This course has been designed for those wishing to learn more than the basics of Pharmacovigilance, who want to expand their knowledge and explore what they would like to learn next in this complex area.

It will give a comprehensive overview of all aspects of PV from global pharmacovigilance and safety standards to where drug safety fits within the company. Safety reporting, adverse reactions vs adverse events, and clinical drug safety will be addressed. It will introduce Medical Device reporting and look at both EU and FDA regulations. Pre-clinical animal and in-vitro studies will also be covered as will post-marketing drug safety. How to collect quality data and specific clinical areas such as Pregnancy and At Risk Groups will be discussed.

Overall this course will provide a thorough and extensive overview of pharmacovigilance and will equip delegates with the ability to apply the knowledge gained to enhance their role within the company.

This course is part of our Vigilance training course collection; for information on the basics of PhV, consider taking a look at our beginner-friendly Pharmacovigilance training course.

Benefits of attending

  • Gain a comprehensive overview of all aspects of PV from global pharmacovigilance and safety standards to where drug safety fits within the company
  • Address safety reporting, adverse reactions vs adverse events and clinical drug safety 
  • Learn medical device reporting and both EU and FDA regulations
  • Explore pre-clinical animal and in-vitro studies, as well as post-marketing drug safety
  • Discuss how to collect quality data and specific clinical areas such as pregnancy and at risk groups

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for Pharmacovigilance (PV) personnel with up to 24 months of experience, looking to diversify their knowledge and expand their potential to move into different areas of Pharmacovigilance.

The course would also be appropriate for Auditors who want to understand more about PV and what to look out for when performing audits.

It would also be beneficial to Regulatory Affairs personnel who want to understand some of the pharmacovigilance activities that cross over into the Regulatory area.

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This course will cover:

Background and introduction to pharmacovigilance

  • The WHO and safety reporting
  • CIOMS – function and purpose
  • ICH – composition and guidelines

Global pharmacovigilance and safety standards

  • Definitions of terms (ICH) used in pharmacovigilance
  • Adverse reactions versus adverse events
  • Serious and non-serious – definitions
  • Expected or unexpected reactions or events
  • Expedited reporting

Global pharmacovigilance and safety standards (continued)

Pharmacovigilance and its role in other departments

  • Pharmacovigilance – where does it fit in the company?
  • Medical information and drug safety
  • Regulatory dept. and drug safety
  • Clinical and drug Safety
  • Commercial, marketing and drug safety

Clinical drug safety  

  • Basic principles – key features for capturing drug safety data
  • Case record form design and data capture
  • Data management and drug safety – clinical versus safety databases
  • Assessment of individual serious adverse event reports

Post marketing drug safety

  • Differences in clinical and post marketing drug safety
  • European marketing safety and causality
  • Post marketing safety in the USA
  • Post marketing safety in Japan

Causality assessments in pharmacovigilance

  • Assessments for clinical safety and causality
  • Post marketing safety and causality
  • Causality definitions
  • Company versus reporter causality
  • Pros and cons of causality definitions

Pre-clinical animal and in vitro studies

  • ICH guidelines and animal and in vitro studies
  • EU and FDA regulations and animal studies
  • Toxicity studies
  • Genotoxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity studies

MedDRA – introductory

  • Background information concerning the introduction of MedDRA
  • The MSSO and MedDRA
  • MedDRA coding capabilities and approaches
  • MedDRA versions and development of the dictionary
  • Old dictionaries and data conversion

Collecting good quality safety information

  • Why the need for good quality safety information?
  • What constitutes good safety information?
  • Differing regulations concerning safety data collection requirements
  • Designing a system to collect good quality information

The blinded study and safety reporting

  • Definition of a blinded study
  • Blinded studies involving company product, comparator product and placebo
  • Regulations and guidelines for blinded study safety reporting
  • Unblinding and emergency unblinding
  • Blinding and biometrics

An introduction to medical device reporting

  • Definition of a medical device
  • Safety reporting of medical devices
  • FDA regulations concerning medical devices and safety
  • EU regulations concerning medical devices and safety

The need for capturing pregnancy data

  • Pregnancy information sources
  • Pregnancy data forms, data capture and appearance in safety reviews
  • Regulations concerning pregnancy data capture

Drug safety and at risk groups

  • Regulations and guidelines in connection with at risk groups
  • Analysis of data from at risk groups
  • Identification of at risk groups
  • Reporting new findings concerning at risk groups

Medical aspects of liver disease and hepatic adverse drug reactions

  • Basic physiology and definitions
  • Common liver conditions
  • Drug effects on the liver
  • Pharmacovigilance evaluations with hepatic ADRs

Medical aspects of renal adverse drug reactions

  • Basic renal physiology
  • Drug induced renal disease
  • Renal disease and ADRs
  • Renal function and dosing in relation to ADRs

Medical aspects of haematological and immunological adverse drug reactions

  • Blood composition and normal values
  • Mechanism of action of drugs on blood parameters
  • Type A and B reactions

Medical aspects of cardiovascular disease and adverse drug reactions

  • Basic physiology and heart rhythm
  • QT interval prolongation and drugs
  • Cardiovascular disease and drugs – contraindications
  • Drug induced cardiac ADRs

 

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Graeme Ladds
PharSafer Associates Ltd

Graeme Ladds, Director of PharSafer, has over 30 years’ experience working in the pharmaceutical industry. Having started his career at Ashbourne Pharmaceuticals in 1989 as Head of Drug Safety & Medical Information, he went on to become Head of Global Pharmacovigilance at Shire Pharmaceuticals. He then set up his consultancy and specialist CRO company, PharSafer Associates Ltd, where he has been involved in establishing pharmacovigilance in companies, performing audits across Europe and the USA, SOP writing, acting as QP for companies, and helping with regulatory inspections.

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

  • 30% off the 2nd delegate*
  • 40% off the 3rd delegate*
  • 50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

29-31 January 2025

Live online

09:30-16:45 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:30-17:45 Paris (UTC+01)
04:30-11:45 New York (UTC-05)
Timings may be different for each day
Course code 14470

  • GBP 1,599 1,899
  • EUR 2,239 2,659
  • USD 2,571 3,039

Until 25 Dec

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7-9 May 2025

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09:30-16:45 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-17:45 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-11:45 New York (UTC-04)
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Course code 14668

  • GBP 1,599 1,899
  • EUR 2,239 2,659
  • USD 2,571 3,039

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29 September-1 October 2025

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09:00-16:15 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-17:15 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-11:15 New York (UTC-04)
Timings may be different for each day
Course code 14956

  • GBP 1,599 1,899
  • EUR 2,239 2,659
  • USD 2,571 3,039

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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

United States of America

  • Ascendis Pharma A/S
  • Seres Therapeutics

Ireland

  • Chanelle

Singapore

  • Organon Asia Pacific Services Pte. Ltd

Slovak Republic

  • Viatris Slovakia s.r.o.

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3 days

Typical duration

Pricing from:

  • GBP 1,200
  • Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
  • Course tailored to your requirements
  • At your choice of location, or online

 

We can customise this course to your requirements and deliver it on an in-house basis for any number of your staff or colleagues.

Contact our in-house training experts Aleksandra Beer and Yesim Nurko to discuss your requirements:

Multiple colleagues? See above for details of our discounts for 2, 3, or 4 delegates. For more, talk to one of our training experts to discuss how to:

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Aleksandra Beer

Aleksandra BEER
Training expert

Yesim Nurko

Yesim NURKO
Training expert

+44 (0)20 7749 4749

inhouse@ipi.academy