Thank you for attending the Sixth Annual Chapel Hill Drug Conference.

If you need to obtain your continuing education certificate for the sessions you attended at the conference, please refer to the e-mail we sent out with instructions. If you cannot find or did not receive that e-mail, please contact Steve Dedrick at (919) 966-5323 or steve_dedrick@unc.edu.

Comparative Effectiveness Research:
Methods and Applications

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy hosted the Sixth Annual Chapel Hill Drug Conference on May 11-12, 2011. The conference’s theme was "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Methods and Applications." More than one hundred experts from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies attended. Scott Smith, MSPH, PhD, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality delivered the keynote address. The conference began with an evening reception and poster session on May 11, followed by a day-long program on May 12 in Kerr Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Keynote Address

Presentation by Dan Jonas, MD

Photos

The conference was sponsored by The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, the UNC-GSK Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Interested attendees can earn up to 7.0 hours of continuing-education credit for this knowledge-based activity.

Scientific Committee

• Joel Farley, PhD, Chair
• Til Stürmer, MD, MPH
• Tim Carey, MD, MPH
• Betsy Sleath, PhD

Special thank-you to Anne Beauburn and Julie Lauffenburger, doctoral students in the School's Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, for their assistance in planning this conference.