2025 World Smart Medication Day

Event Agenda with Speakers

Opening Session

  • Welcome Address
    • Speaker: Prof. Francesca Levi-Schaffer
    • Role: President, IUPHAR
  • Overview of the IUPHAR Clinical and Translational Pharmacology Section & Committees
    • Speaker: Prof. Sarah Hilmer
    • Title: Conjoint Professor of Geriatric Pharmacology, University of Sydney
    • Role: Chair, Clinical & Translational Section, IUPHAR

Thematic Learning Sessions

  • Moderator: Prof. M. Isabel Lucena & Prof. Priyadarshani Galappatthy
  • Sex and Gender Differences in Drug Treatment – Should We Be Concerned?
    Speaker: Prof. Ylva Böttiger
    Institution: Linköping University, Sweden
  • Gender Affirming Therapy in Paediatrics: Perspectives and Issues
    Speaker: Prof. Michael Rieder
    Institution: University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Sex/Gender Differences in Clinical Pharmacology: What About ‘Baby’ Steps…
    Speaker: Prof. Karel Allegaert
    Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Intersection Between Old Age, Sex and Frailty in Drug Development and Evaluation
    Speaker: Prof. Sarah Hilmer
    Institution: University of Sydney
  • Pregnancy & Lactation: Not “Special” or “Vulnerable”
    Speaker: Prof. Catriona Waitt
    Institution: University of Liverpool / Uganda
  • Real World Evidence from Mars and Venus
    Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Buckley
    Institution: University of Sydney
  • Sex Differences in Preclinical Development
    Speaker: Prof. Bikash Medhi
    Institution: Chandigarh, India. Chair, Basic & Translational Sciences, IUPHAR
  • Reflections & Discussion Session
    Moderators: Prof. M. Isabel Lucena & Prof. Priyadarshani Galappatthy

Poster Presentations & Awards

  • General Poster Winners
    Announced by: Prof. Gabriele Stocco
  • Research Poster Winners
    Announced by: Prof. Gordana Dragovic Lukic
  • Student Winners Video Presentation
    3-minute video presentations by winning students

Closing Remarks

  • Conclusions & Future Outlook
    Speaker: Prof. Scott A. Waldman
    Institution: Philadelphia, USA
  • World Smart Medication Day