CONGRESS
Welcome to Seoul!
THE 78TH WORLD CONGRESS OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES TAKES PLACE IN GLASGOW IN SEPTEMBER NEXT YEAR. SP TAKES A LOOK AT THE RECENT WORLD CONGRESS THAT WAS HELD IN SEOUL AND SPEAKS TO DR JOHN MCANAW ABOUT HIS HOPES FOR NEXT YEAR’S EVENT
CONGRESS ‘FEEDS THE SOUL OF PHARMACY’
T
he countdown is on! When the 2018 FIP World Congress takes place in Glasgow from 2-6 September next year, it will be the first time that it will have taken place in the UK for nearly 40 years, and will bring together pharmacy practitioners and pharmaceutical scientists from around the world to consider ways of extending the role of pharmacists so that they play a full part in ensuring that patients and health systems achieve full benefits from the medicines people take.
Spanning five days, the Congress will look at four themes:
• From bench to bedside: advancing pharmaceutical care
• Partners in health • Empowered for health • Targeting special interest
The FIP World Congress is hosted with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and provides a unique opportunity to showcase the profession in
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Great Britain and demonstrate the achievements of UK pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists to a global audience.
THE ‘SOUL OF PHARMACY’ HITS SEOUL This year’s event, which was held recently in Seoul, South Korea, saw an international audience of pharmacy professionals and pharmaceutical scientists explore the many new ways that pharmacy professionals can add the value expected by modern healthcare systems and services.
Sessions delivered throughout the Congress demonstrated how tradition and dedication to patients’ health - the true soul of pharmacy - could be coupled with innovation in technology, education and practice to deliver care for the 21st century.
Seoul, which is home to ten million national and foreign residents, is a remarkable world-class city where contemporary lifestyle meets long- standing history. This vibrant city
houses 266 cultural properties against a backdrop of towering skyscrapers, and serves as the proud epicentre of the Korean Wave pop culture phenomenon or Hallyu, attracting many from all over the world.
Unfortunately for this year’s Congress, the current tension created by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, and his nuclear programme, coupled with the fact that the Congress fell on the weekend of the North’s day of celebration, when its leader had threatened to fire another nuclear missile - had led to many of those, who had intended to attend, understandably withdrawing. Nevertheless, delegates enjoyed a range of presentations and workshops which aimed to define what ‘the soul of pharmacy’ means to its professionals.
PRECISION PHARMACOTHERAPY Among the topics up for discussion at the Congress was that of precision pharmacotherapy. This emerging
model hopes to make customised medicines available for patients and, thanks to advances in a diversity of experimental approaches, delegates were shown how patients can now be categorised into subpopulations by their shared molecular and cellular biomarkers and targeted for treatment by precision and personalised pharmacotherapy.
As it is increasingly clear that one size does not fit all when it comes to treatment, these precision and individualised strategies are hoped to greatly improve patient care.
‘Precision pharmacotherapy will allow pharmacists to have the unique opportunity to utilise their expertise and provide tailored therapy personalised for the individual, thereby really optimising their health outcomes,’ said Amber Liu, Business Developer at ttopstart, a science and business consultancy specialising in biomedical innovation in the Netherlands, and Whitley Yi, Research
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