First Annual Symposium on Pharmacovigilance is the first meeting on drug safety and pharmacovigilance ever held in Hong Kong.  This Symposium is supported by Department of Health, Hospital Authority, International Society of Pharmacovigilance and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and School of Pharmacy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

This one-day Symposium covers important areas of drug safety and pharmacovigilance. The topics include regulation of pharmaceutical products in Hong Kong and the European Union, international collaboration in pharmacovigilance, UK initiatives to improve reporting of adverse drug reactions, pharmacovigilance of vaccines, update on counterfeit drugs, genetic determinants of drug toxicities, pharmacovigilance of generic drugs, pre-marketing drug safety data, risk assessment, post-marketing surveillance and the role of pharmacoepidemiology.

The Symposium will also provide the participants with the opportunity to share ideas how we can work together to meet the needs for safe and effective medicines.  The Training Workshops on 19 and 20 March 2010 provide another forum for the participants to learn from the experts.