IHT at the HTAi, Rome

A parallel workshop 20-21 June 2005

Please note we are not the HTAi conference organisers. This meeting is being run as a parallel session and is separately from the main conference. Registration through us only allows attendance at our workshop and not the main HTAi meeting. However, registrants for the main HTAi meeting can attend our workshop on the TUESDAY ONLY.

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Page last updated 13.06.05

The workshop will bring together researchers from the UK's Innovative Health Technologies Programme, a social science initiative that has been in place since 2000, involving 145 researchers across 31 institutions.

The work has explored the implications of new technologies (in fields such as genetics, informatics, new drugs, assistive devices etc) for the meaning and delivery of health and health care. Part of this work has led to development of evaluative methods that relate to but are distinct from the techniques routinely deployed in the HTA community.

The objective of the workshop is to encourage dialogue across the social science and HTA communities through formal presentations and a closing Panel session. Findings from the IHT Programme will be drawn on to illustrate the opportunities for new approaches to technology evaluation.

PROGRAMME

Monday 20th June

International Comparison of IHTs

09:30	Introduction Professor Andrew Webster, IHT Programme Director
10:00	Plenary Address: Health Technology As Policy Professor Mita Giacomini, Centre for Health Economics & Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Canada
10:30	Coronary Angioplasty and Healthy Innovation Systems Dr Ronnie Ramlogan, University of Manchester, UK Please note change of speaker
11:00	Refreshments
11:45	Emerging Forms of Evidence in Assessing Regenerative Medicine Professor Linda Hogle, University of Wisconsin, USA
12:15	Governing Pharmaceutical Technologies in the Age of the Internet Dr Nick Fox, University of Sheffield, UK
12:45	Biobanks in Comparison: Towards a New Form of Biopolitics? Professor Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna, Austria
13:15	Lunch
14:15	Risk Management, New Drug Assessment & the Adequacy of Health Protection Prof John Abraham & Dr Courtney Davis, University of Sussex, UK
14:45	Processes of Technology Diffusion and Implementation Around Prenatal Screening in Europe Dr Jane Sandall, Kings College London, UK
15:15	Genomics & Society: A Dutch Research Programme Annemiek Nelis, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
15:45	Refreshments
16:30	Social & Ethnic Differences in Attitudes & Consent to Prenatal Testing Professor Josephine Green, University of York, UK
17:00	Close of day one

Tuesday 21st June

Social Science and HTA: Opening the Debate on Evaluation

09:30	Plenary Address: HTA: a Critical Re-appraisal Professor Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
10:00	Telemedicine/Telehealthcare Evaluation: Problems of Technological Innovation, Measuring Effectiveness & Organizational Integration Professor Carl May, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
10:30	Using Technology to Transfer Expertise. Problems & Potential in Cancer Genetics Professor Lindsay Prior, Cardiff University, UK
11:00	Refreshments
11:45	Evaluation & Regulatory Policy: Tissue-engineered Technologies in Healthcare Systems Dr Alex Faulkner, Cardiff University, UK
12:15	Evaluation in Cancer Pain Relief: from Private to Public Trouble Dr Jane Seymour, University of Sheffield, UK
12:45	Plural Perspectives & Mixed Messages - Evaluating First Trimester Prenatal Screening Professor Gillian Lewando-Hundt, University of Warwick, UK
13:15	Lunch
14:15	Can Cost-effectiveness Analysis Address Equity Concerns? An Illustration Using the Net Benefit Regression Framework Dr Mira Johri, University of Montreal, Canada & co-authers JS Hoch, GS Zaric, AM Bayoumi
14:45	Decision Technologies & Evaluation Professor Jack Dowie, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK Please note change of speaker and title
15:15	Panel Discussion
15:45	Close of Workshop and Refreshments

The workshop is run in conjunction with the HTAi. For information on accommodation and travel please contact the HTAi conference organisers at

Viale XXI Aprile 38/B
Roma - 00162
Tel. +39 06 44202652
Fax +39 06 45422583

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e-mail: congressi@prex.it
Web site: www.prex.it

The IHT Programme reserves the right to change the programme at any time should situations arise out of our control.

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