Annual meetings

28th ESPACOMP Conference

November 21-22, 2024 | Naples, Italy

The Conference Theme will be

Precision Dosing:
Navigating Adherence in Drug Development and Clinical Practice

Optimizing drug dosages is essential for effective treatment outcomes and patient safety. However, non-adherence in drug trials and clinical practice poses significant challenges, leading to overdosing, unnecessary dose escalation, and risks associated with polypharmacy. This conference will explore strategies to address these challenges and promote precision dosing tailored to individual patient needs.

Conference Location

The annual meeting will be at the

Chiesa di SS Marcellino e Festo

University of Naples Federico II

Via Leopoldo Rodinò, 22 – Naples, Italy

Accommodation

We recommend booking your accommodation at the Hotel Naples for a convenient stay.

The hotel is just an 8-minute walk (500.0 meters) from the conference venue.

If you prefer alternative hotels or apartments, many other options are available in the surrounding area.

Please note that places are limited, so we encourage you to book early to secure your stay!

Meeting Dinner

This year  ESPACOMP is delighted to invite all conference participants to the Gala Dinner, which this year will be held at Transatlantico Ristorante Suite.

When: Thursday, November 21, 2024

Venue & Address: Transatlantico Ristorante Suite | Via Luculliana, 15, 80132 Napoli NA

ESPACOMP 2024 Conference Programme

Preliminary Programme HERE

Call for abstracts & Late-Breaking Abstracts are closed!

Presentation Guidelines

Guidelines to assist abstract authors in their role as Poster/Oral presenters can be accessed here:

For Oral Presenters: Oral presentations Guidelines CLICK HERE

For Poster Presenters: Poster presentations Guidelines CLICK HERE

Early Career Researchers & Students Showcase opportunity

Are you a student or early career researcher (ECR) working on medication adherence? Take the opportunity to submit an abstract for ESPACOMP 2024 and you could win an oral or poster presentation! This year, students and ECRs poster presenters will have an additional chance to gain visibility and present their work at the annual meeting.

ECRs/Students’ Showcase

• Top 5 to 10 Posters presented by Students and ECRs will be selected
• 5-minute presentations will follow The Five W scheme: Who, What, Where/When, Why

More information will be shared after Abstracts acceptance notifications. Stay tuned!

Conference Workshops

Two workshops will present cutting-edge information and methods of Implementation Science and Health Economics applications in medication adherence.
Read the links below for more information about the workshops!

Workshop: Health Economics

In-person Workshop: Saturday, November 23, 2024: 9:00am to 4:30pm

Registrations are now open!

Conference Registration and fees

Full time student

Academic, healthcare providers, non-profit or public sector employees

Commercial sector employees

Membership and conference: 400€ (500€ after Oct 15)

Health Economics Workshop: 200€ (300€ after Oct 15)

Membership and conference: 525€ (700€ after Oct 15)

Health Economics Workshop: 365€ (495€ after oct 15)

Membership and conference: 900€ (950€ after Oct 15)

Health Economics Workshop: 730€ (830€ after Oct 15)

Please note that we do not offer any scholarships or fee reductions at this time.

To maintain 2024 membership without attending the annual conference (100€), click here

To register multiple participants from the same institution or any for queries related to registration and payment, please contact the meeting secretariat at: info@espacomp.eu

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John Urquhart Memorial Lecture

Estimands, intercurrent events and adherence analysis in clinical trials and beyond

Prof Els Goetghebeur

Professor in the department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University, Belgium. She chairs the UGent expert Center Data Analysis and Statistical Science (DASS) and leads the consulting unit StatGent at UGent.  She held positions at prestigious universities including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Harvard School of Public Health, taught at Stanford and Maastricht University and received the Peter Armitage award from the mrc in Cambridge, UK. She is steering group member of STRATOS and an active expert for the European Medicines Agency.

Her research is devoted to the development and application of novel statistical methods to draw evidence on important problems primarily in public health and medicine. This often involves design, causal inference, missing data and time to event analysis using statistical methods and machine learning techniques. Application domains center around the effect of observed exposures, including observed treatment, in clinical trials and observational studies.

Keynote Speakers

Dr Alpana Mair, FFRPharmS, MRPharmS, MSc, PhD, IP

Dr Alpana Mair is an internationally renowned academic and expert policy adviser in the field of medication optimisation and patient safety with a particular focus on polypharmacy and safety and effective use of medicines in the context multimorbidity and health inequalities.
Her ESPACOMP invited talk will focus on ‘Navigating polypharmacy: Ensuring safe medication use in complex regimens’, specifically on: Importance of medication reviews in polypharmacy management; Criticality of addressing medication adherence in polypharmacy; Identifying and addressing drug interactions and duplications; Promoting patient-centered approaches to optimize medication regimens.

Dr Bijan J. Borah, PhD

Dr. Bijan J. Borah is a Professor of Health Services Research at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota. He serves as the Endowed Scientific Director for the Clinical and Economic Evaluation Program at the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, and is the Head of the Section of Advanced Analytics within the Division of Health Care Delivery Research. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Borah was an Associate Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research at UnitedHealth. Dr. Borah’s educational background was in statistics (B.Sc., M.Sc.), economics (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), and data science (Certificate). His research primarily focuses on comparative effectiveness research spanning across various clinical areas. He has published over 175 peer-reviewed scientific articles, with a significant portion dedicated to medication adherence and persistence. Dr. Borah actively contributes to the academic and research community through his secondary appointments. He is a member of the Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council (CEPAC) of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a member of the Cost and Efficiency Subcommittee for the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM), and the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Medication Adherence and Compliance at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).

Prof Sean Lawley, PhD

Sean Lawley is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah. His research uses mathematics to answer questions in physiology and medicine. His work on medication nonadherence has addressed questions such as (i) what patients should do if they miss a dose, (ii) how clinicians can design dosing regimens to mitigate nonadherence, and (iii) how efficacy depends on adherence. He has also studied ovarian aging, menopause timing, and stochastic search. He received a PhD in Mathematics from Duke University in 2014 and a BS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.

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John Urquhart Memorial Lecture

An invited speaker is appointed every year to deliver the John Urquhart Memorial Lecture.

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Jean-Michel Métry poster prizes

Every year, a prize is awarded to the best poster. A poster session is organized at every annual meeting. Each poster is evaluated by a jury according to a predefined evaluation grid. The winner of the poster prize gets a free registration for the next annual meeting.

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