TY - JOUR
T1 - The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics-25 years' young and going strong
AU - Coleman, Jamie J
AU - Samer, Caroline
AU - Zeitlinger, Markus
AU - van Agtmael, Michiel
AU - Rongen, Gerard A
AU - Marquet, Pierre
AU - Simon, Tabassome
AU - Singer, Donald
AU - Manolopoulos, Vangelis G
AU - Böttiger, Ylva
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Clinical pharmacology as a scientific discipline and medical specialty was unarguably born in the twentieth century. Whilst pharmacology-the science behind the treatment of disease-had been in evolution since at least medieval times, the clinical discipline of pharmacology has had a more recent genesis and rather insidious evolution. During the 1900s, there were some clear father (parent) figures of clinical pharmacology in Europe that emerged and were responsible for the development of the specialty in this continent. This was a time when there were parallel developments in geographically dispersed academic departments (around the globe), during an age of excitement in drug discovery and clinical application of new therapeutic agents. It was the meeting of minds of some of these progenitors of the specialty that led to the development of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) 25 years ago arising from a working party supported by the World Health Organization in Europe. The EACPT now includes all major national organizations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, representing over 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. The EACPT has a major interest in promoting the safe use of medicines across Europe and internationally and has supported these aims since 1995, through biennial international scientific congresses and summer schools with delegates and presenters from around the world as well as various working group activities. In this article, the current executive committee members of EACPT recall this history, describe the evolution of the association over the last quarter of a century, and provide an update on the activities and ambitions of the association today.
AB - Clinical pharmacology as a scientific discipline and medical specialty was unarguably born in the twentieth century. Whilst pharmacology-the science behind the treatment of disease-had been in evolution since at least medieval times, the clinical discipline of pharmacology has had a more recent genesis and rather insidious evolution. During the 1900s, there were some clear father (parent) figures of clinical pharmacology in Europe that emerged and were responsible for the development of the specialty in this continent. This was a time when there were parallel developments in geographically dispersed academic departments (around the globe), during an age of excitement in drug discovery and clinical application of new therapeutic agents. It was the meeting of minds of some of these progenitors of the specialty that led to the development of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) 25 years ago arising from a working party supported by the World Health Organization in Europe. The EACPT now includes all major national organizations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, representing over 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. The EACPT has a major interest in promoting the safe use of medicines across Europe and internationally and has supported these aims since 1995, through biennial international scientific congresses and summer schools with delegates and presenters from around the world as well as various working group activities. In this article, the current executive committee members of EACPT recall this history, describe the evolution of the association over the last quarter of a century, and provide an update on the activities and ambitions of the association today.
KW - Clinical pharmacology
KW - History
KW - Committee membership
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066035217&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00228-019-02690-5
DO - 10.1007/s00228-019-02690-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 31093706
SN - 0031-6970
VL - 75
SP - 743
EP - 750
JO - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
JF - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
IS - 6
ER -