The USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics
and the USC Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy are
pleased to announce a Three-Day, Hands-on workshop:

Principles of Pharmacokinetics -
New Unified Approaches to Parametric and Nonparametric Population PK and PD Modeling - Applications to Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and to Optimal individualization of Drug Therapy

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, September 30 - October 2, 2002,

Location -
3rd Floor Computer Classroom, USC School of Pharmacy, USC Medical Campus, 1985 Zonal Avenue, the next building to the West.


This course is intended for physicians, pharmacists and biomedical scientists with an interest in population pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic 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.

The course will examine and review current and new methods of parametric and nonparametric population PK/PD modeling, with special emphasis on the FOCE parametric Iterative 2 Stage Bayesian (IT2B) and the nonparametric adaptive grid (NPAG) programs.

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 "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. Such changes take place in patients not only when they are acutely ill and highly unstable, but also in children as they grow and mature, and therapy much be guided during all this time. In addition, changes also take place with varying compliance, and a changing apparent volume of distribution may well be a clue to good or poor compliance in a patient.

In addition, new work on stochastic analysis of patient data in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit will be presented, with new methods of analyzing such data, predicting outcome, and suggesting optimal therapy will be presented.


For more information and Registration, please contact

Roger W. Jelliffe, M.D.
USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics
2250 Alcazar Street
Los Angeles, CA, 90033

Phone 323-442-1300
Fax 323-442-1302
Email jelliffe@hsc.usc.edu

Further information is also available on our web site www.lapk.org


Faculty

Roger W. Jelliffe, M.D., Professor of Medicine, USC, Course coordinator.
David Bayard, Ph.D., Guidance and Control Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Paul Beringer, Pharm. D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, USC School of Pharmacy.
Aida Bustad, B.A., USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics
David D'Argenio, Ph.D., Chief, Department of Biomedical Engineering, USC.
Robert Leary, Ph. D., Senior Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego CA.
Stan Louie, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, USC School of Pharmacy.
Mark Milman, Ph.D., Guidance and Control Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Michael Neely, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, USC.
William Shoemaker, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery, USC School of Medicine.
Alan Schumitzky, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, USC.
Michael Van Guilder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, Cal-State Fullerton, USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics.
Xin Wang, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, USC.
Patrick Colletti, M.D., USC School of Medicine.


Preliminary Program

Day 1 - Monday Sept 30 - Basic Pharmacokinetics, Introduction to Population Modeling, and Clinical Applications

8:30 AM  -Registration
9:00 AM  -Welcome Dr. Jelliffe
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 MAP 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? 
	  Types of PK models
	  Linear regression, NLLS, MAP Bayesian

10:30 AM BREAK

10:45 AM -Parametric Population Models - Dr. Schumitzky
          Iterative 2 stage Bayesian, NONMEM
11:15 AM -Nonparametric Population models - Dr. Schumitzky
          NPEM, NPML
11:45 AM -A Unified Approach to Parametric and 
	  Nonparametric Population PK/PD  Modeling - Dr. 
	  Leary

12:15 PM -LUNCH

1:15  PM -Comparing Parametric and Nonparametric 
	  Approaches - IT2B, NPEM, and NPAG - Ms. Aida 
	  Bustad.
1:45 PM  -Multiple Model (MM) Dosage Design for maximum 
	  precision regimens - Dr. Bayard
2:15 PM  -Getting MM Bayesian Posterior Individual Parameter 
	  Distributions. The Interacting MM (IMM) Approach 
	  Dr. Bayard.
2:45 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.
       
3:00 PM  -BREAK

Hands-on Session -

3:15 PM  -Entering past doses and levels, analysing the data.
          A patient on Gentamicin
	  An interesting patient on Tobramycin.
3:45 PM  -Hands  on session - Dr. Jelliffe
	  The patient on Gentamicin
	  The interesting patient on Tobramycin.
4:15 PM  -Outcome Analysis of Aminoglycoside Therapy - Dr. 
	  Jelliffe.
4:45 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
5:15 PM  -Hands  on session - Setting the initial goals, 
	  planning the initial regimen. The simpler patient with 
	  atrial fib
5:45 PM  -Demo  Vancomycin - Setting the initial goals, 
	  planning the initial regimen. - Dr. Jelliffe
6:00 PM  -Hands  on session - Setting the initial goals, 
	  planning the initial regimen.


An evening get-together at the USC Medical Campus Faculty Center.

6:30 PM - No-host cocktails
7:00 PM - Dinner



Day 2 - Tuesday Oct 1. - Intermediate Population Modeling

8:30 AM  -Vancomycin Therapy Today - Dr. Beringer
9:00 AM  -Pharmacokinetic Approaches to Imaging and Cancer 
	  Chemotherapy - Dr.  Wolf
9:30 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.
10:00 AM -Demo - getting the assay error polynomial - Dr. 
	  Jelliffe
10:15 AM -Hands - on session - getting the assay error 
	  polynomial

10:30 AM -BREAK

10:45 AM -Demo - The IT2B program.  Modelling Amikacin - 
	  Dr. Jelliffe
	  A typical patient data file
	  Running the program. Getting gamma, ranges, 
	  evaluating the results
11:15 AM -Hands-on session  Modeling Amikacin
	  Running the program. Getting gamma, ranges, 
	  evaluating the results

12:00 Noon - LUNCH

1:00 PM  -Demo  NPEM: Modeling Amikacin further. Using 
	  gamma, ranges results - Dr. Jelliffe
	  Evaluating the results - The log-likelihood 
	  function
	  The 2 and 3-D plots of the marginal and joint 
	  marginal PDF's
1:45 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

2:30 PM - BREAK

2:45 PM  -Optimal Times to Sample Serum Concentrations and 
	  other Responses - Dr. D'Argenio.
3:15 PM  -New Approaches to Critical Care Therapy - Noninvasive 
	  Hemodynamic Monitoring - Dr. Shoemaker 
3:45 PM  -New Approaches to Critical Care Therapy - Stochastic 
	  Analysis of Patient Data and Outcome Prediction - Dr. Bayard
4:15 PM  -A New Method of Assay Error Analysis - Dr. Milman.
4:45 PM  -Antiviral Therapy Update - Dr. Louie
5:15 PM  -Adjourn



Day 3 - Wedensday Oct 2. - Advanced Population Modeling - Large and Nonlinear Models

9:00 AM  -Antifungal Therapy Today - Dr. Neely
9:45 AM  -Population PK/PD Modeling over the web - Dr. Wang

10:30 AM -BREAK

11:00 AM -Making large and nonlinear population models - Dr. Jelliffe
	  Demo - Using BOXES  making a Michaelis-Menten model of Piperacillin
11:30 AM -Demo - setting up Big IT2B  Modeling Piperacillin - Dr. Jelliffe
          A typical subject data file
	  Setting up the model, the data, the instructions, sending it, analyzing 
	  it. Evaluating the results
12:00 noon - Demo - Big NPEM  Modeling Piperacillin
	  Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analyzing it, evaluating the 
	  results

12:30 PM  -LUNCH

Hands-on Sessions - 

1:30 PM  -Hands  on session - Using BOXES  making a Michaelis-Menten model of 
	  Piperacillin - Dr. Jelliffe
2:15 PM  -Hands-on session - Big IT2B  Modeling Piperacillin.
	  Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analyzing it, evaluating 
	  the results

3:00 PM - Break

3:15 PM  -Hands-on session - Big NPEM  Modelling Piperacillin
	  Setting up the model, the data, sending it, analyzing it, evaluating the 
	  results
4:00 PM  -Group Discussion and Certificate Presentation.


Online registration

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Workshop only ($495)

Workshop and Get-Together Dinner ($525)


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I wish to register to attend the USC 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

Monday through Wednesday, September 30 - October 1, 2002,

Location
3rd Floor Computer Classroom, USC School of Pharmacy, USC Medical Campus, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

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