Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Overview of the Mini-Sentinel Pilot
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Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Overview of the Mini-Sentinel Pilot
On September 15, the Engelberg Center hosted the second webinar in the Sentinel Initiative 101 Webinar Series, “Overview of FDA’s Mini-Sentinel Pilot.” This webinar featured a presentation from the Mini-Sentinel principal investigator, Dr. Richard Platt, Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Dr. Platt’s presentation described Mini-Sentinel’s capabilities and lessons learned since the contract was awarded in October, 2009. Specific topics included:
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Governance principles and policies,
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Key achievements from the Mini-Sentinel Data Core, Methods Core, and Protocol Core, and
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An example of a recent rapid query assessment conducted by Mini-Sentinel.
The third and final webinar will cover other Sentinel Initiative activities: Federal Partners Collaboration, the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP), and the Brookings Institution’s broader convening activities.
Agenda
Welcome and Introduction
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
Speaker
Rich Platt
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
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