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Syposium " INVESTING IN EVIDENCE FOR BETTER HEALTH CARE"
The South Asian Cochrane Network invites you to the 2nd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence Based Health Care, ‘Investing in Evidence for Better Health Care’that will be held on April 9, 2008 at the Scudder Auditorium, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
The symposium provides an opportunity to bring together health policy makers, the Indian Council of Medical Research, clinicians, researchers, medical journal editors, ethicists, librarians and information specialists, media, consumers of health care, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the health sciences and members of the South Asian Cochrane Network, to learn from each other, set priorities for research, explore ways of facilitating evidence based health policy
Date: April9, 2008
Venue: Scudder Auditorium
Christian Medical College,
Tamil Nadu,
India
Programme:
Registration: 7.30 to 9 AM
Welcome and inauguration: 8.45 AM
Plenary Session I: 9 AM to 11 AM
The Cochrane Collaboration and Evidence Informed Health Care
Chairs: Adrian Grant (Co-Chair, Cochrane Collaboration) and Sally Green (Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre)
The Cochrane Collaboration and Evidence Informed Health Care Lorne Becker Co-Chair, Cochrane Collaboration, Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Evidence Informed Health Care: What is it and who cares? Andy Oxman Director, Norwegian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre; Editor, Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group; Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services, Oslo, Norway
Evidence into Policy: The Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium Paul Garner Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, International Health Division, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Moving Evidence into Policy and Practice Jeremy Grimshaw, Director, Canadian Cochrane Centre; Co-ordinating Editor, Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group; Director, Clinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
Equity in Evidence for Health Care Peter Tugwell Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group; Director, Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Institute for Population Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Refreshments: 11 AM to 11.30 AM
Plenary Session II: 11.30 AM to 1:00 PM
Evaluating and Disseminating the Evidence
Chairs: To be announced
HIV/AIDS and Nutrition - verdicts in search of evidence Jimmy Volmink, Co-Director, South African Cochrane Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Hidden and not so Hidden Biases in Clinical Trials Lisa Bero Co-Director, San Francisco Branch of the US Cochrane Center; Editor, Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group; Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Tainted evidence: Drug Companies and the power of marketing Peter Gøtzsche Director, The Nordic Cochrane Centre; Editor, Cochrane Methodology Review Group; Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
The effective use of the media in disseminating Evidence about Health Care Deborah Pentesco-Gilbert, Publisher, The Cochrane Library, John Wiley & Sons, UK
Lunch: 1 PM to 2 PM
Concurrent Workshops: 2 PM to 4 PM
For Methodologists and Review Authors:
Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
Chairs: To be announced
Jonathan Deeks Convener, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group; Professor of Health Statistics, Dept. of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Rob Scholten Director, Dutch Cochrane Centre, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
For Editors of Indian Medical Journals; Ethicists; Researchers:
Clinical Trials Registration & Results Reporting; The CONSORT Guidelines and Beyond:
Chairs: to be announced
Davina Ghersi (WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Geneva),
Kay Dickersin (Director, US Cochrane Center, Center for Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA)
Peter Gøtzsche (Director, The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark)
For Health Policy Makers: (Closed Session; for invitees only)
Evidence Informed Health Policy
Chairs: To be announced
This session will bring together Health Policy Makers from the central and state health ministries, the Indian Council of Medical Research, WHO- India, WHO SEARO, epidemiologists from INCLEN, IndiaCLEN, public health specialists, researchers, clinicians, and members of the Cochrane Collaboration and the South Asian Cochrane Network to identify and discuss barriers, priorities and strategies to implementing evidence-informed health policy and practice in the country and the South Asian region.
For clinicians and researchers:
Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes- Bridging the Evidence- Practice Gap
Chairs: To be announced
Steve McDonald Deputy Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash Institute of Health Services Research, Monash University, Australia
Sally Green Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Convener Cochrane Handbook Advisory Group; Monash University, Australia
Pisake Lumbiganon Director, Thai Cochrane Network, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
For consumers of Health Care and the media:
Evidence for consumers of health care
Chairs: to be announced
Janet Wale (Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network; Brunswick, Victoria, Australia)
Liz Whamond (Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network; Canadian Breast Cancer Network, New Brunswick, Canada)
Gerd Antes (Director, German Cochrane Centre, Dept. Med. Biometry & Statistics, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany)
For Information Specialists, Librarians, users of Evidence resources:
The Cochrane Library and EBM resources
Chairs: to be announced
Deborah Pentesco- Gilbert Publisher, The Cochrane Library, John Wiley & Sons, UK
Ruth Foxlee Trials Search Coordinator, Cochrane Wounds Group, Health Sciences, University of York, UK)
For undergraduate and post-graduate students and beginners:
Introduction to Evidence Based Health Practice for students and beginners
Chairs: to be announced
Donna Gilles Western Sydney Area Mental Health Service, Cumberland Hospital, NSW, Australia
Narelle Willis Managing Editor, Cochrane Renal Group, Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia
Hans van der Wouden Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands
Poster Session: over lunch and refreshment breaks
Abstracts are invited on the themes of:
Bias in Research Evidence;
Barriers to Evidence Informed Health Policy and Health Care;
Bioinformatics and Evidence Informed Health Care;
Clinical Trials Methods;
Dissemination of Evidence;
Evidence Informed Health Care;
Evidence Informed Health Policy;
Evidence Informed Health Systems;
Evidence Informed Practice Guidelines;
Evidence Informed Ethics;
Grading Evidence;
Involving consumers in research and practice;
Locating and accessing the Evidence;
Medical Journals and Evidence Informed Health Policy and Care;
Media and Evidence Informed Health Policy and Health Care;
Meta-analysis;
Methodological issues in systematic reviews and meta-analysis;
Methodological issues in RCTs and observational studies;
Methodological issues in assessment of diagnostic test accuracy;
Moving Evidence to Practice;
Prospective Registration of Clinical Trials;
Reporting Results of Clinical Trials;
Reporting Adverse Events;
Research Misconduct;
Software for systematic reviews and meta-analysis;
Systematic reviews of the effects of interventions;
Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy
Key Note Address: 4.45 PM
Evidence Informed Health Policy
Tikki Pang Director- Research Policy and Cooperation, WHO, Geneva (via tele-link)
Closing session: 5.30 PM
The Cochrane Collaboration and Global Health Care; Challenges and opportunities:
Nick Royle CEO, The Cochrane Collaboration, Oxford, UK
The South Asian Cochrane Network: Past, Present, Future
Sally Green, Steve McDonald and the site representatives of the SACN
Entertainment 6-8 PM
Avigna Dance Ensemble
Dinner 8 PM to10 PM
Scudder hall and lawns
regards
sridevi
For more details, visit http://home.cmcvellore.ac.in/symposium2008/Index.asp
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