[Mitworld] MIT looks at Katrina Response, Panel on Drug Safety

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[HOW CAN WE IMPROVE DISASTER RESPONSE?]

MIT faculty look at systemic failures in the Katrina response with a
strong message to prepare for the next one, whether it be a natural
disaster, a terrorist attack or a flu pandemic.

Speakers:
Kenneth Oye
 Associate Professor, Political Science and Engineering Systems

Richard C. Larson
 Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental
 Engineering MIT

Yossi Sheffi
 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
 Systems and Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/295/>

[QUOTE]
(on FEMA)
"With its (new) focus on terrorism, middle management people with
experience in natural disasters left, and were replaced with patronage
appointments... It became a hollow agency."
--Kenneth Oye


EVENT HOST: MIT Response to Hurricane Katrina

<http://web.mit.edu/katrina/>

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[INNOVATION IN POST-LAUNCH SURVEILLANCE AND PHARMACO-VIGILANCE (PART
TWO)]

This panel looks at the issues surrounding the safety of drugs after
they have entered the marketplace and looks for ways to monitor side
effects in large populations.

[SPEAKERS]

MODERATOR:
Isaac S. Kohane
 Director, Children's-HST Informatics Program; Associate Director of
 Bioinformatics, Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics;
 Co-Director of the HST Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Training
 Program

PANELISTS:
Nevine Zariffa
 Therapy Area Director, Cardiovascular and Metabolism, Biomedical Data
 Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals

John Glaser
 Vice President and C.I.O., Partners HealthCare

Randall Lutter
 Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning, FDA
Joanna F. Haas
 Vice President of Pharmacovigilance, Genzyme Corporation


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/294/>

[QUOTE]
"No clinical trial program known to man will ever help predict every
single instance of everything that might happen in the big, wide world."

-- Nevine Zariffa

EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation
<http://cbi.mit.edu/>

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