DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND PHARMACOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF TORINO

 

MEDICAL SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF TORINO

ITALIAN SOCIETY OF PHARMACOLOGY

 

POPULATION PHARMACOKINETIC WEEK

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORINO

 

March 19-22  2002

 

First Italian Symposium on Population Pharmacokinetics

 

Date 3/19/2002

 

Location: Villa Gualino - Viale Settimio Severo 65 - 10133 Torino Italy

 

Language: English

 
 
PROGRAM

 

 

9.00 Opening Remarks: Trends and Perspectives of the population approach in Pharmacology and Clinical practice - Prof. M. Eandi

 

I session Chair: Prof. M. Furlanut – Prof. I. Bondareva

 

9.15   Population Modelling – Prof. D.Verotta

9.40   Non parametric  Model analysis – Prof. R. Jelliffe

10.05 PKPD: Population analysis – Dr. R. Gomeni

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 The application of Parzen method to population analysis – Dr. M. Costa

11.25 Markov Chain Monte Carlo – Prof. De Nicolao e Prof. Magni

11.50 Population PK in preclinical drug development - Dr. I. Poggesi

12.15 General Discussion

 

13.00 Lunch

 

II session  Chair: Prof. M.  Del Tacca – Prof. R. Jelliffe

 

14.00 Optimising drug in infective disease - Prof. Jelliffe

14.20 Individualising therapy in infective disease – Italian speaker to be confirmed

14.40 Optimizing drugs in neuropsychiatry - Prof. I. Bondareva

15.00 Genetic and environmental factors causing variability in psychotropic drugs pk - Prof. E. Spina

15.20 Coffee Break

16.00 Optimising transplant chemotherapy - Prof. N. O. Hoem

16.20 Optimising drugs in cancer chemotherapy - Dr. Bleyzac

16.40 Individualising cancer chemotherapy – Prof. R. Danesi

17.00 New approaches in dose optimization of 5-Fluorouracil – Dr. M. Gusella, Prof. R. Padrini

17.20 Optimising drugs in cardiology - Prof. R. Jelliffe

17.40 Individualising anticoagulant therapy – Dr. M.G. Scordo, Prof. R. Padrini, Prof. E. Spina

18.00 General Discussion and Closing remarks

 

International invited speakers:

 

Irina Bondareva, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Mathematical Medicine

Institute for Physical and Chemical Medicine

Moscow, Russia

 

Nathalie Bleyzac, Pharm.D.

Hospital Debrousse, Lyon, France

 

Nils Ove Hoem, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pharmacology,

Department of Pharmacology

School of Pharmacy

University of Oslo, Norway

 

Roger Jelliffe, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Division of Geriatric Medicine

Director, Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics

School of Medicine

University of Southern California, Los Angeles USA

 

Davide Verotta, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

School of  Pharmacy

University of California, S. Francisco USA

 

 

Chairman

 

Prof. Mario Eandi MD       mario.eandi@unito.it

Department of Anatomy and Pharmacology

Via P. Giuria 13

University of Torino - Italy

 

Organizing secretary

 

Roberto Passera, PharmD  roberto.passera@tin.it

Gian Paolo Zara MD         gianpaolo.zara@unito.it

Department of Anatomy and Pharmacology

Via P. Giuria 13

University of Torino - Italy

Phone:  +39 011 6707803

Fax:      +39 011 6707788

 

Admission to the Symposium: free

 

Registration to the Symposium:  please send an e-mail or a Fax to the Organizing Secretary

 

Housing Information:  Please contact

CO.AL.PI

Miss Silvia Pasquini
Phone               +39 011 5613760

Fax                  +39 011 5621738

E-Mail:             hotelres@hotelres.it


Workshop

 

A Hands-on workshop on parametric and nonparametric population PK and PD modelling and its application in therapeutic drug monitoring: WIN-USC*PACK

 

March 20-22, 2002

 

Location: Computer Classroom School of Medicine - Torino University

Via Michelangelo 32 – 10125 Torino - Italy

Main Teacher: Prof. Roger Jelliffe

 

The USC Laboratory of Applied, and the School of Medicine, University of Torino, Department of Anatomy Pharmacology  Italy, are pleased to announce a Three-Day, Hands-on workshop on

 

Principles of Pharmacokinetics - Parametric and Nonparametric Population PK and PD Modeling - Applications to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and to Optimal Individualization of Drug Therapy

 

This course is intended for physicians, pharmacists and biomedical scientists with an interest in population pk/pd modeling, and also for those interested in therapeutic drug monitoring and optimally precise individualization of drug therapy for patient care.

 

Prior experience in clinical pharmacokinetics will be an advantage. Participants will be introduced to the USC*PACK software, which can be used both for therapeutic drug monitoring and optimal individualization of drug dosage regimens, as well as for parametric and nonparametric population PK/PD and physiological modeling.

 

This course will also introduce the new Win*USC*PACK software for "Multiple Model" design of dosage regimens that hit target goals with maximal precision. This method is based first on nonparametric population models. It also obtains a patient's Bayesian posterior nonparametric individual model, and, if needed, to detect and quantify the interoccasional variability in each patient's individual model, thus permitting detection of unsuspected changes in parameter values such as take place with the volume of distribution (and other parameters), in aminoglycoside antibiotics, for example, with changes in the patient's status. This sequential Bayesian "Interacting Multiple Model" Bayesian approach to interoccasional intra-individual variability comes from the aerospace community, where it is used to track evasive targets. It is new, to our knowledge, in the pharmacokinetic community. It is designed to track the behavior of drugs, especially in unstable patients, with maximum precision, to detect unsuspected changes in a patient's parameter values during the period of the data analysis, and to permit achievement of target therapeutic goals with maximum precision.

 

Course Co-coordinators:

Mario Eandi , M.D., Medical School  University of Torino

Roger Jelliffe, M.D., Professor of Medicine, USC School of Medicine,

Director, USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics

 

Faculty:

Nathalie Bleyzac, Pharm.D, Hospital Debrousse, Lyon, France

Nils Ove Hoem, Ph.D, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway

Roger Jelliffe, M.D., Professor of Medicine, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

Irina Bondareva, Ph.D., Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling, Institute of Physical and Chemical Medicine, Moscow Russia


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Day 1 - Basic Pharmacokinetics, Introduction to Population Modeling, and Clinical Applications

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9:00 AM - Welcome - Prof. M. Eandi

9:15 AM - Introduction to basic concepts in pharmacokinetics, including Review of Basic Pharmacokinetic Behavior. Drug Elimination and Renal Function - Dr. Jelliffe

9:30 AM - Evaluating Renal Function - Dr. Jelliffe

9:45 AM - Bayes' Theorem and the Bayesian Scenario of Planning, Monitoring, and Adjusting Drug Dosage for patients - Dr. Jelliffe

10:00 AM - Introduction to Population Modeling - Dr. Jelliffe

Why model? For description? For action? Traditional Data Fitting Methods Linear regression, NLLS, Bayesian

 

10:30 AM BREAK

 

10:45 AM - Parametric Population Models (Iterative 2 stage Bayesian, NONMEM )- Dr. Jelliffe

11:15 AM - Nonparametric Population models (NPML, NPEM) - Dr. Jelliffe

11:45 AM - Nonparametric Adaptive Grid (NPAG) Modeling - Dr. Jelliffe

 

12:30 PM - LUNCH

 

1:30  PM - Comparing Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches (IT2B, NPEM, NPAG) - Dr. Jelliffe

2:00 PM  - Multiple Model (MM) Dosage Design for maximum precision regimens - Dr. Jelliffe

2:30 PM -Getting MM Bayesian Posterior Individual Parameter Distributions. The Interacting MM (IMM) Approach - Dr. Jelliffe.

3:00 PM - Introduction to the new Windows USC*PACK MM and IMM Clinical Program to Achieve Target Goals with Maximum Precision - Dr. Jelliffe

Demo - 1 compartment model  Planning the Initial regimen - Gentamicin: CCr = 100, 50, 5.

       

3:15 PM - BREAK

 

3:30 PM - Entering past doses and levels, analysing the data. A patient on Gentamicin

                An interesting patient on Tobramycin. - Dr. Jelliffe

4:00 PM - Hands  on session - Dr. Jelliffe

                The patient on Gentamicin. The interesting patient on Tobramycin.

4:30 PM - Demo - 2 compartment model  Digoxin - Dr. Jelliffe

                Setting the initial goals, planning the initial regimen

                A simple patient with atrial fibrillation. Another interesting patient with atrial fib

5:00 PM - Hands  on session - Setting the initial goals, planning the initial regimen.

                The simpler patient with atrial fib

5:30 PM - Demo  Vancomycin - Setting the initial goals, planning the initial regimen. - Dr. Jelliffe

5:45 PM - Hands  on session - Setting the initial goals, planning the initial regimen.


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Day 2 - Intermediate Population Modeling

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9:00 AM - Optimizing drugs in neuropsychiatry - dr. Bondareva

9:30 AM - Individualization of Busulfan Therapy in Children for Bone Marrow Transplantation - Dr. Bleyzac

10:00 AM - Optimal procedures for population modeling - Dr. Jelliffe

First, determine the assay error pattern polynomial, to weight each data point properly

Second, use a parametric population model, get gamma, ranges

Third, use an NP population model, use gamma, ranges, get the entire parameter distribution.

10:30 AM - Demo - getting the assay error polynomial - Dr. Jelliffe

10:45 AM - Hands - on session - getting the assay error polynomial

 

11:00 AM - BREAK

 

11:15 AM - Demo - The IT2B program.  Modelling Amikacin - Dr. Jelliffe

A typical patient data file: Running the program. Getting gamma, ranges, evaluating the results

11:45 AM - Hands-on session  Modeling Amikacin

Running the program. Getting gamma, ranges, evaluating the results

 

12:30 - LUNCH

 

1:30 PM - Demo NPEM: Modeling Amikacin further. Using gamma, ranges results - Dr. Jelliffe

 Evaluating the results - The log-likelihood function

 Descriptors of dispersion : The DF50 and DF95

The 2 and 3-D plots of the marginal and joint marginal PDF's

2:15 PM - Hands-on session - NPEM: Amikacin. Using gamma, ranges - Dr. Jelliffe

Linking Nonparametric Models to the Multiple Model Adaptive Control Software

Deriving individual Bayesian posterior patient parameter joint densities

Evaluating relationships between parameters and covariates

 

3:00 PM - BREAK

 

3:15 PM - Optimal Times to Sample Serum Concentrations and other Responses - Dr. Jelliffe.

4:15 PM - Making Discrete "Nonparametric" Population Models from Literature Data - Dr. Jelliffe.

4:45 PM - Population PK/PD Modeling over the web - Dr. Jelliffe


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Day 3 - Advanced Population Modeling - Large and Nonlinear Models

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9:00 AM - Modeling Cyclosporine - Dr. Hoem

9:30 AM - Making large and nonlinear population models - Dr. Hoem

Demo - Using BOXES  making a model of Cyclosporine

10:15 AM - Hands  on session - Using BOXES  making a model of Cyclosporine - Dr. Hoem

 

10:45 AM - BREAK

 

11:00 AM - Demo  setting up Big IT2B  Modelling Cyclosporine - Dr. Hoem

A typical subject data file

Setting up the model, the data, the instructions, sending it, analyzing it. Evaluating the results

11:30 AM - Hands-on session - setting up big IT2B - Modelling Cyclosporine.

Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analysing it, Evaluating the results

 

12:30 PM - LUNCH

 

1:30 PM - Demo  Big NPEM  Modelling Cyclosporine - Dr. Hoem

Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analyzing it, Evaluating the results

2:00 PM - Hands-on session - Big NPEM  Modelling Cyclosporine

Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analyzing it, Evaluating the results

 

 

Chairman

Prof. Mario Eandi MD       mario.eandi@unito.it

Department of Anatomy and Pharmacology

Via P. Giuria 13

University of Torino - Italy

 

Organizing Secretary

Roberto Passera, PharmD  roberto.passera@tin.it

Gian Paolo Zara MD         gianpaolo.zara@unito.it

Phone:  +39 011 6707803

Fax:      +39 011 6707788

 

 

Admission to the Workshop: free – The number of the participants is limited to 30. The place is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Registration to the Workshop:  please send an e-mail or a Fax to the Organizing Secretary

 

Housing Information:  Please contact

CO.AL.PI

Miss Silvia Pasquini
Phone               +39 011 5613760

Fax                  +39 011 5621738

E-Mail:             hotelres@hotelres.it