pharming_in_korea | Tales from SNU… Day 7

There are many learning opportunities at Dr. Oh’s lab. The graduate students here tend to the clinical services at SNUH, work on their research projects, and attend classes, seminars, and even organize lunchtime teachings among themselves. We’ve been able to attend some of these in the past week.

Workshops: Systematic review, EndNote
Case study presentations: Dyslipidemia, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
Lunch time teachings: Viral hepatitis
Group patient education session: Kidney and liver transplant patients (focused on transplant medication use, nutrition and management of daily life)
Special lecture: Pharmacometrics

Today’s special lecture on pharmacometrics was thought provoking. It was given by Dr. Yoo Yi-hyul, a professor of clinical pharmacy of Chung Nam National Univeristy, School of Pharmacy. He covered the following content:

Overview of pharmacometrics: What is it, why do we use it, what is the pharmacists’ role in it (read more here)
Pharmacometrics at FDA: How pharmacometrics has been applied in the FDA’s drug development and regulatory decision-making (read more here)
Drug- Disease-Trial model
Tools for modeling and simulation: NONMEM, SAS, R, ADAPT V, Pheonix
Some details on NONMEM estimators

Pharmacometrics is a fairly new concept that is fast growing, but have not been fully developed yet in Korea. Dr. Yoo predicts that PharmD’s will have an important role in this new area of science in Korea.

- Tae