CMPI Event: “Personalized Medicine and Responsible Access to Pain Medication.”

Please join the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (www.cmpi.org) and some of the nation’s top experts for an interactive panel discussion of “Personalized Medicine and Responsible Access to Pain Medication.”

A Capitol Hill Briefing

When: September 10, 2013 from 9:30AM – 2:15PM

Where: Rayburn House Office Building B338, Washington DC

RSVP: Mario Coluccio at mcoluccio@cmpi.org

BREAKFAST & LUNCH TO BE SERVED

AGENDA

9:30- 10AM:  Breakfast and Registration

10AM: Welcome
            Peter Pitts & Robert Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

10:15: Keynote: FDA Regulation and Responsible Access to Pain Medication
            Douglas Throckmorton, Deputy Director, Regulatory Programs, CDER, FDA

11:00: Access to Pain Medications: The Role of Patients and Manufacturers
            Moderator: Steve Usdin, BioCentury
            Cindy Steinberg, US Pain Foundation
            Bob Twillman, American Academy of Pain Management
            Stuart Kim, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals

11:45: Break and Lunch

12:00: Issue:  Pain Medications:  Two Reporters Views
            Moderator: Peter Pitts, CMPI
            Barry Meier, New York Times
            Judy Foreman, Syndicated Columnist

1:30:  Closing Keynote: Pain Medications and the Future of Personalized Medicine
            Introduction: Bob Goldberg, CMPI
            Charles Inturrisi, Weill Cornell Medical Center
 
2:15: Closing Remarks
 
Peter Pitts & Robert Goldberg, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
 
RSVP: Mario Coluccio at mcoluccio@cmpi.org

BREAKFAST & LUNCH TO BE SERVED