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Penn CERT
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News updates
- Dr Theoklis Zaoutis, CCEB Senior Scholar and Director of
Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP),
will teach a course at the Spring 2007 Public Health Institute (PHI) to be held
May 21 - 25, 2007 in State College, Pennsylvania. Courses, workshops and
speakers at the PHI address broad areas of public health and public
health/emergency preparedness. The Institute is open to anyone delivering
public health services to the public. Dr. Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha of the
Pennsylvania Department of Health and PennCERT, organizes the semi-annual
conference. Drs. John Holmes and Ebbing Lautenbach have taught courses in past
Institutes. For more information, see www.health.state.pa.us/phievent.
- The first textbook in the field of Pharmacoepidemiology, edited
by Drs. Brian Strom and Stephen Kimmel, has been published by John Wiley and
Sons (Chichester, England,
2006). The Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology was designed as an educational tool
for students of the field. The book is a modified version of Dr. Strom’s
sourcebook, Pharmacoepidemiology (2005), now in its fourth edition.
- Dr. Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha announced the pending release of a
new book, Infectious Disease Surveillance, to be published by Blackwell
Publishing of London in 2007 ((ISBN 1-4051-4266-9). Editors of the book are Nkuchia
M. M’ikanatha, Ruth Lynfield, Chris Van Beneden & Henriette de Valk.
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The Centers for Education and
Research on Therapeutics (CERTs)
program is a national initiative to
increase awareness of the benefits and
risks of new, existing, or combined uses
of therapeutics through education and
research. The CERTs concept grew out
of a recognition that physicians need
more information about the therapies
they prescribe.
The PennCERT hopes to optimize drug prescribing and improve
the risk/benefit balance from drugs, particularly for antibiotics. The
Penn CERTs will accomplish this research and dissemination effort by
linking the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics'
pharmacoepidemiology skills with the pharmacoeconomics skills of the
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the experience in
patient-oriented research of the General Clinical Research Center,
basic-science laboratories interested in evaluating the molecular
mechanisms of drug effects, and the skills of social science
researchers at Penn.
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Penn Organizations Participating in CERT
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
The Center for Experimental Therapeutics
General Clinical Research Center
Office of Health Services Research
The University of Pennsylvania Health System
The University of Pennsylvania
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