Schedule

Presentations will be posted when they are received from the presenters. 

In the meantime, please click on each session title for a short review of the session.

ACoP 2011 Programming Committee
   Co-Chairs: Marc Gastonguay & Raymond Miller
   Members: Parviz Ghahramani, Diane Mould, Michael Neely, Chee Ng, Paolo Vicini

SATURDAY APRIL 2 and SUNDAY APRIL 3 
Pre-meeting workshops (click for more info)
 
SUNDAY APRIL 3
12:00 PM 5:00 PM Registration  
7:00 PM 9:00 PM ACoP Opening Reception  
       
MONDAY APRIL 4
7:30 AM 8:30 AM Breakfast/Registration
8:30 AM 8:40 AM Welcome/Program Overview Marc Gastonguay, Raymond Miller
8:40 AM 9:00 AM Introducing ASoP! Stacey Tannenbaum, Marc Pfister
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Lewis B. Sheiner Lecture Nancy Sambol
  Estimating Dose-Response in a Trial Randomizing Only Treatment Versus Control Utilizing Varying Compliance in Both Arms Don Rubin
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Break/Posters/Exhibits
10:30 AM 12:00 PM

Session 1: Mechanistic Modeling in Oncology Drug Development

[Suggested reading]

Diane Mould, Dinesh De Alwis, Jeroen Elassaiss-Schaap
  Introduction  Dinesh De Alwis
  The Added Value of Mechanistic Models to Drug Development  Orna Amir
  Tumor Vessel Dynamics During Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Lance Munn
  "What Is the Question?” Thoughts for PK/PD Experts from a Clinical Immunotherapist Richard Junghans
  Summary and Closing Remarks  Jeroen Elassaiss-Schaap
12:00 PM 1:30 PM

Lunch/Posters/Exhibits
Student Mentoring Session

1:30 PM 3:00 PM Session 2: ACoP Poster-Podium and Presentation of Awards Julie Stone, Bojan Lalovic, Hao Zhu
  Population Modeling of Long-Term Steroid-induced Bone Loss in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Hong Li
  Disease Progression Model for Multiple Sclerosis and effect of Cladribine Tablets Therapy on Clinical Endpoints Radojka Savic
  Disease model of the synovium in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Is it a relevant contribution to Phase 2 design? Rune Overgaard
  Modeling of Functional Assessment Questionnaire (FAQ) as Continuous Bounded Data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Database Kaori Ito
  Impact of Various Clinical Practice Strategies on Cardiovascular Risk for the Treatment of Hypertension: A Clinical Trial Simulation Study Yuyan Jin
  Award presentations France Mentre, Marc Pfister
3:00 PM 4:30 PM Poster Session #1 and Exhibits
4:30 PM 7:00 PM Free Time
7:00 PM  ? Social Event
       
TUESDAY APRIL 5
7:30 AM 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Session 3: Heart Failure: Pathophysiology and Quantitative Modeling Anna Georgieva, Chee Ng
  Pathophysiology of Heart Failure  Shi-Yin Foo
    The Cardiovascular-Renal platform: a large-scale mechanistic model for evaluating the effects of antihypertensive agents on chronic heart failure
Melissa Hallow
  Whole-heart modeling of heart failure  Natalia Trayanova
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Break/Posters/Exhibits
10:30 AM 12:00 PM

Session 4: Pharmacometrics in Pregnancy: Quantifying Maternal/Fetal Pharmacology

[Suggested reading]

Coen van Hasselt, Marilee Andrew
    Introductory Remarks  
  Pharmacometrics in Pregnancy:  the Unmet Need  Mary F. Hebert
  Population Pharmacokinetics of Antimalarial Drugs in Pregnant Women  Joel Tarning
  Exploring Maternal/Fetal Exposure with Physiologically Based Models  Donald R. Mattison
    Closing remarks  
12:00 PM 1:30 PM Lunch/Posters/Exhibits
1:30 PM 3:00 PM

Session 5: Modeling and Simulation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

[Suggested reading]

Parviz Ghahramani
  Clinical Challenges in Neurodegeneration  Lon Schneider
  Learning from Prior Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials Hao Zhu
  Model-based Trial Optimization for Phase II and III designs in Alzheimer's Disease Andrew Hooker
3:00 PM 4:30 PM Poster Session #2 and Exhibits
4:30 PM 8:00 PM Free Time
Dinner on your own
8:00 PM  ? Dessert bar
Posters/exhibitors
 
WEDNESDAY APRIL 6
7:30 AM 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Session 6:  Impact of Pharmacometrics in Patient Care Roger Jeliffe, Michael Neely
  Pharmacometric Applications to Immunosuppressive Therapy in Transplant Patients Sander Vinks
  Use of Statistical Process Control Theory and Effect-Control Hemodynamics to Guide the Management of Sodium
Nitroprusside for Controlled Hypotension in Children
Jeffrey Barrett
  Multiple Model Approach to Individual Dose Optimization Michael Neely
10:00 AM 10:30 AM Break/Posters/Exhibits
10:30 AM 12:00 PM

Session 7: Tutorial: Using Model-Based Meta-Analysis to Inform Drug Development Decisions

[Suggested reading]

Jonathan French
  Meta-analysis for Longitudinal Dose-response Characterization in Alzheimer's Disease: a Bayesian modeling framework for combining individual and summary-level dat James Rogers
  Network meta-analysis: concepts, assumptions and application to repeated measures  Jeroen P Jansen
  Using a model-based meta-analysis for comparative effectiveness evaluations  Jaap Mandema
12:00 PM 2:00 PM Box Lunch
Poster Session #3 and Exhibits
2:00 PM 3:30 PM

Session 8: Advancements and Applications of Multiscale Systems Pharmacology Modeling

[Suggested reading]

Wojciech Krzyzanski, Mark C. Peterson
  A Model for Combination Rituximab Therapy Based on Receptor Occupancy Driven Molecular Signal
Transduction in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 
John Harrold
  A Physiologically-Based, Multi-Scale, Mathematical Model of Integrated Calcium Homeostasis and Bone Remodeling  Matthew Riggs
  A Comprehensive Model for the Humoral Coagulation Network Stephen Duffull
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Closing Remarks Stacey Tannenbaum
4:00 PM 7:00 PM Beach Party
       
THURSDAY APRIL 7
Post-meeting workshops (click for more info)