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Thursday, June 18 • 11:30am - 12:30pm
#421 L: Quantitative Benefit-Risk Assessment: What Methods are Being Used? How Far has Industry Come?

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Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-20-732-L04-P; CME 1.00; IACET 1.00; RN 1.00

This session will describe the results of a recently conducted industry-wide survey on the use of quantitative benefit-risk assessment (qBRA) methods within life science companies. In particular, it will describe whether and to what extent such methods are being utilized, what are the types of qBRA methods being utilized, challenges to implementing qBRA within these organizations, and strategies for overcoming those challenges.

Learning Objectives

Describe when, why and to what extent qBRA is being adopted within different life science companies to inform decision making; Describe the range of frameworks and methods being utilized within life science companies to implement qBRA; Identify the challenges to introducing qBRA within life science companies and ways that these have been overcome, including factors to facilitate successful implementation.

Chair

Meredith Smith, DrPH, PhD, MPA

Speaker

When, Why, and to What Extent qBRA is Being Adopted Within Different Lifescience Companies to Inform Decision Making?
Kevin Marsh, PhD, MSc

What Are the Types of Benefit-Risk Assessment Frameworks Being Used Within the Pharmaceutical Industry Currently and What are the Range of qBRA Methods Being Employed?
Brett Hauber, PhD

What Are the Challenges to Introducing qBRA Within Lifescience Companies and Ways that These Have Been Overcome?
Rachael L. DiSantostefano, PhD, MS


Speakers
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Kevin Marsh

Exec Director, Patient Centred Research, Evidera
Kevin Marsh is an Executive Director of Patient Centered Research at Evidera. His research interests include using MCDA and quantitative preference data to inform health decisions, including pipeline optimisation, authorisation, reimbursement, and prescription decisions. He actively... Read More →
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Rachael DiSantostefano

Senior Director, Benefit Risk / Epidemiology, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, United States
Rachael L. DiSantostefano, MS PhD, is a Senior Director of Benefit-Risk in the Epidemiology Department within Janssen Pharmaceuticals, R&D, LLC. She has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical research experience across the quantitative disciplines of epidemiology, biostatistics, and... Read More →
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Meredith Smith

Director, Risk Management, Global Drug Safety, Research and Development, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, United States
Meredith Smith is Risk Management Director at Alexion, Inc. where she leads a team responsible for medicinal product benefit-risk management. She is a behavioral scientist and health services researcher by training with over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2020 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
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