Pharmacometrics

About The Workshop

This workshop is designed to impart the skills on both theoretical and practical aspects of the pharmacometric approach. The workshop is elementary hands-on in nature that participants with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise who are interested in executing pharmacometric-based studies may benefit. Participants will gain an appreciation for the essentials of study designs, types of data that meets the needs for pharmacometric-based studies, sufficient data collection and learn how to proactively plan in order to maximize study effectiveness. Facilitators will provide examples from their experience on pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies to illustrate best practices for implementation and overcoming problems throughout the research studies. 

The workshop content is provided as a combination of lectures, review of data, example of codes, and data analysis results, in addition to hands-on exercises. Following the workshop, the participant should be able to understand the conceptual basis and rationale for the population approach to pharmacometric-based study, where and when population methods may be optimally applied and the basic understanding to the format for fundamental NONMEM® datasets.

The workshop will cover:
– Introduction to pharmacometric-based study
– Non-linear fixed effect modeling
– Sources of data and types of parameters
– Sampling technique and data collection
– Hands-on case studies
– How to understand population pharmacokinetic literature

Target audience
Postgraduate students of pharmacy or medicine disciplines, academics, scientists, pharmacists, medical doctors and other allied health professionals

Speakers:

Dr. Sabariah Noor Harun
Clinical Pharmacy Lecturer,
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
 
Dr Siti Maisharah Sheikh Ghadzi
Clinical Pharmacy Lecturer,
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
 
Dr. Hadzliana Zainal
Clinical Pharmacy Lecturer,
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia