Upcoming Meeting
30th ESPACOMP Conference
November 19-20, 2026 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Conference Theme
Precision Adherence Management Across the Research-to-Practice Continuum
Conference Location
The 2026 annual meeting will be hosted at the
Leeuwenbergh Utrecht
Servaasbolwerk 1a, 3512 NK Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Conference Dinner will be hosted at the conference venue on November 19.
Accommodation
A dedicated hotel booking service is available for ESPACOMP participants, offering special rates at six selected hotels.
To benefit from the preferential rates, please book your accommodation through the dedicated platform here
Conference Registration and fees
November 19-20, 2026
Full time student
Academic, healthcare providers, non-profit or public sector employees
Commercial sector employees
Membership and conference
Early Registration: €425 (until 1 Oct)
Late Registration: €525 (after 1 Oct)
Social Dinner: free of charge
Membership and conference
Early Registration: €550 (until 1 Oct)
Late Registration: €675 (after 1 Oct)
Social Dinner: free of charge
Membership and conference
Early Registration: €925 (until 1 Oct)
Late Registration: €1,125 (after 1 Oct)
Social Dinner: free of charge
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
Make-It day
November 18, 2026
Join the Make-It Day on 18 November, a special pre-congress event of the ESPACOMP Congress, organized by the Make-It Consortium. The consortium is dedicated to improving medication adherence through knowledge sharing, expertise development, and implementation of interventions in real-world healthcare practice.
This interactive day brings together researchers, healthcare professionals, and implementation experts from across Europe and beyond to exchange knowledge and experiences, build new collaborations, and explore opportunities for joint funding applications.
Through networking, peer learning, and collaborative discussions, participants will explore opportunities for new European partnerships, share experiences and best practices, and identify common interests for future collaboration when it comes to international research and implementation projects with real-world impact.
Early Career Researchers’ social event
November 18, 2026
On Wednesday evening, 18 November, the ESPACOMP is hosting a relaxed social activity to explore Utrecht together and connect with fellow young researchers.
We will head together to a local jeu‑de‑boules bar, where you can enjoy friendly games, drinks, and shared bites while getting to know peers from across the adherence research field.
The participation fee is €25, which includes the activity and some snacks. We look forward to welcoming you for an evening of fun, networking, and discovering Utrecht.
Keynote Speakers
John Urquhart Memorial Lecture
From Make-It to Made-it? The dynamics of a long-running program of tailored implementation of medication adherence interventions in local primary care real-world settings.
Prof. dr. Liset van Dijk
Prof. van Dijk is Head of the Patient Perspectives Department at Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research) and Honorary Professor of Pharmacy Health Services Research at the University of Groningen. She leads the Make It consortium, which evaluates the implementation of medication adherence interventions in real-world settings. Liset has also served in numerous advisory and governance roles, including as President of ESPACOMP.
Plenary Lecture
Precision Adherence: Delivering the Right Support to the Right Patient at the Right Time.
Dr. Pei-Jai Michael Ho
Dr. Ho is Medical Director of IMPROVE at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, a learning health system initiative focused on identifying care gaps and implementing scalable, evidence-based strategies to improve clinical outcomes. A cardiologist and health services researcher, his work has helped demonstrate the link between medication nonadherence and increased risks of hospitalization and mortality. His recent work points toward more personalized, adaptive approaches to adherence including AI-enabled and learning health system strategies.
Plenary Lecture
Advancing Adherence Management Through Implementation Science: Achieving Healthcare Professional Practice Change.
Dr. Jacob Crawshaw
Dr. Crawshaw is a Senior Methodologist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute whose research focuses on translating evidence into routine healthcare practice. His work integrates behavioural science, implementation science, and patient-oriented research to improve medication adherence and support the implementation of clinical practice guidelines. He collaborates internationally on research spanning audit and feedback, behaviour change interventions, and health system improvement.
Plenary Lecture
Personalizing Medicines, Optimizing Outcomes: Pharmacogenetics Implementation and Lessons from the Netherlands.
Prof. dr. Jesse Swen
Prof. Swen is a full professor of clinical pharmacy — specializing in translational pharmacogenetics — at Leiden University Medical Center, where he serves as deputy head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Toxicology. His research focuses on identifying novel pharmacogenetic biomarkers and translating them into clinical practice to improve drug therapy outcomes. He was a primary investigator of the landmark Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics PREPARE trial, which assessed the clinical utility of pharmacogenetics panel testing across seven European sites. He is also an active member of both the Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group (DPWG) and the US Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).
