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Bejon Misra, Founder of Partnership for Safe Medicines India, moderated the third panel, "The Role of Patients & Healthcare Professionals." Misra began the session by showing a video that highlights the work of PSM India. Misra began by distributing tokens of appreciation from the Board of PSM India to the Board of Partnership for Safe Medicines, saying that PSM…
Read MoreBob Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs was the luncheon speaker at the Partnership for Safe Medicines 2011 Interchange. Below is a transcript of Under Secretary Hormats remarks. I’m delighted that you asked me to speak today. The work that the Partnership for Safe Medicines is important. Making sure that our citizens take safe medicines…
Read MoreMaryland Attorney General, Douglas F. Gansler, spoke on Panel 2. Said Gansler, "We all have a blind trust in the drugs we take, the doctor says we'll get better when we take it, and we trust that medication is what it purports to be. "But counterfeit drugs make it not the case. " Said Gansler, with counterfeit drugs being…
Read MoreLibby Baney, advisor for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, spoke as part of Panel 2, “Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Sales.” She moved the crowd in her opening statement with a personal story of her sister’s encounter with counterfeit drugs.
Read MoreModerator Scotti Russell, from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which received the Partnership for Safe Medicines Guardian Award last night, led the "Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Sales" panel. The first speaker, Alex Bamiagis, advisor for the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) Victoria Espinel while on detail from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Bamiagis outlined ways CBP…
Read MoreTravis Johnson, Director of Legislative Affairs and Policy, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, spoke on panel one about what industry is doing to fight counterfeiting. He said that the borders are not the only places to look for counterfeit medicines and that law enforcement has to ask "how are people finding the fake drugs?" He says that counterfeit medicines are…
Read MoreAlex Dahl, Coalition for Patient Safety and Medicine Integrity, spoke first at the "Protecting Our Medicines" panel about cargo theft, and the stealing of medicines out of the legitimate supply chain. What is the crime problem? Large, sophisiticated criminal organizations are taking methodical stpes to steal medicines from cargo, and then reintroduce them into the legitimate supply chain. Why…
Read MoreMichael Levy, acting director of the Office of Drug Security, Integrity and Recalls (ODSIR) in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's (CDER) Office of Compliance at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, spoke on the reorganization of the CDER. FDA's diversion and counterfeit criminal case information analyzed 5 years worth of cases to better understand criminal methods and prevent…
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