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Preliminary Announcement: the 9th CBMTS
meeting.
CBMTS-Pharmaceutical I
Bucharest, Romania
3-6 December 2003
Bucharest, Romania. With many thanks to Col. Dr.
Florin Paul, Deputy Surgeon General, Romanian Armed Forces and to Gen.
(Ret) Prof. Victor Voicu in Bucharest for their ideas and actions taken
on the requirements for our ninth CBMTS meeting, a Congress, CBMTS-Pharmaceutical
I. This Congress, a special subject area, on Pharmaceuticals and the
certainties and possibilities a well administered pharmaceutical stockpile
program will offer to individual countries and grouping of countries
- worldwide.
Drs Paul and
Voicu are heading up the Romanian Pharmaceutical I Team and they are
taking every action to help ensure that the Chief Pharmacists, civilian
and military, as well as other medical representatives in each former
Eastern bloc country, and many of the western group of countries participate.
We will also be inviting as many pharmaceutical firms to participate
as possible. Because of its exponentially increasing importance we will
include vaccine development, production and distribution as a prime
discussion area.
Dr. Paul has informed ASA that the Romanian Minister of National Defense
(MoND) has approved the organization of the meeting under the responsibility
of Medical Directorate of MoND and CBMTS.
The meeting venue
will be in Bucharest, at the Military Circle, a very beautiful building
that has many facilities that will meet all requirements for this CBMTS
meeting.
The proposed
main topics, or baskets of topic areas, that we talked about at CBMTS
IV, and to which Prof. Voicu and staff have agreed are:
- Pharmaceutical stockpiles: destination, legal provisions, particularities,
storage conditions, effectiveness and shelf lives;
- Pharmaceutical products for medical protection (individual and/or
collective) in NBC or other WMD crisis: research, production, legal
and ethical aspects, indication and approval for use, financial aspects;
- Regional and international cooperation in the field of stockpiling
and use of pharmaceutical reserve in case of crisis: location of reserve,
international and national laws referring to that issue, transportation,
custom etc.
- International Working Group on Pharmaceutical Stockpiles: opportunities
and benefits for the international community.
- Vaccine development, production, distribution
To assist in
the rapid development of the CBMTS-Pharmaceutical I program, the following
has been approved:
A. Director CBMTS - Pharmaceutical I and President Romanian Organizing
Committee: The Minister of National Defense (MoND), Romania.
B. CBMTS-Pharmaceutical I Co-Directors: Gen. (Ret) Prof. Victor
Voicu and Col. (Ret) Richard Price; and,
C. Special Co-Director for CBMTS International Pharmaceutical
Issues: (waiting nomination approval) and,
D. Special Co-Director for CBMTS Planning, Science and Technical
Issues: Dr. Rudolf Portmann. and
I. Symposium Chair: Col. Dr. Florin Paul, Deputy SG, Medical
Directorate of MoND, Romania
II. Symposium Co-Chair: Dr. Barbara Price, Senior Scientist,
Battelle Memorial Institute, US
The first announcement
for CBMTS-Pharmaceutical I will be in ASA Newsletter 02-6, 27 December
2002. We will also have continuing announcements on the ASA-CBMTS e-mail
network. If you are not already on this network and would like to be
- please e-mail your internet address to: info@asanltr.com.
Pharmaceutical
I is an extremely important and timely meeting of professionals. Join
us in Bucharest in May.
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