Byblos, Lebanon, May 13-15, 2004
Program
Day 1: Thursday May 13, 2004
5:00 - 5:30 PM
Opening Ceremony
5:30 - 6:50 PM
Assuring an Educated Workforce for Pharmaceutical Care
Peter H. Vlasses, Pharm.D., BCPS, FCCP
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Chicago, USA
Day 2: Friday May 14, 2004
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Registration/Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Optimizing Pharmaceutical Care
Joseph DiPiro, Pharm.D., FCCP
University of Georgia
Augusta, USA
9:50 - 10:40 AM
Clinical Pharmacy Services: The Community Pharmacist's Role
Joy Evans, Pharm.D.
Massachussetts College of Pharmacy, USA
10:40 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break/Viewing Posters/Exhibition
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Clinical Pharmacist Managed Antithrombosis Clinical Improving Patient Outcomes
Thomas Sisca, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS
Memorial Hospital at Easton
Easton, USA
12:00 - 12:50 PM
Prevention of Cerebrovascular Disease; the Present and the Future
Kamal Kallab, M.D.
Notre Dame Des Secours Hospital, Lebanon
12:50 - 2:00 PM
Lunch/Viewing Posters/Exhibition
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Advances in Anticoagulation in Cardiology
Paul Dobesh, Pharm.D., BCPS
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
St. Louis, USA
3:00 - 3:50 PM
Management of Hypertension
Jean Dib, Pharm.D./Oussayma Moukhachen, Pharm.D., BCPS
Lebanese American University, Lebanon
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Management of Dyslipidimia
Ibrahim Salti, M.D., Ph.D.
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Lebanon
Day 3: Saturday May 15, 2004
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Registration/Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50 AM
Use of New Antiepileptic Drugs in Pediatric Patients
Mohamad Mikati, M.D.
American University of Beirut Medial Center, Lebanon
9:50 - 10:40 AM
Alzheimer's Disease: Role of Pharmacists to Improve Patient Quality of Life
Mary Beth O'Connell, Pharm.D., BCPS, FSHP, FCCP
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Wayne State University,
Detroit,
USA
10:40 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break/Viewing Posters/Exhibition
11:00 - 11:50 AM
Molecular Therapy of Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia: Imatinib and Beyond
Prof. Stephan Fruehauf
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
12:00 - 12:50 PM
Anti-Cancer Drug Development – Expanding the Approach for Novel Drugs
William Petros, Pharm.D., FCCP
Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center
West Virginia University, USA
12:50 - 2:00 PM
Lunch/Viewing Posters/Exhibition
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Current Approaches for the Treatment of Sepsis
Joseph DiPiro, Pharm.D.
University of Georgia
Augusta, USA
3:00 - 3:50 PM
Bacterial Resistance in the Community: The Role of Antibiotic Abuse
Claude Afif, M.D.
St. Georges Hospital Medical Center, University of Balamand
Lebanon
4:00 - 4:50 PM
Role of Infection Control in the Times of Multi-Resistant Nosocomial Pathogens
Prof. Constance Wendt
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany