Advanced Pharmacovigilance Training 2017
 

SPEAKER

Amr Abdel Moneim Abdel Rahman Saad
Former Associate Minister of Health; Founder of The Egyptian Pharmaceutical vigilance system
Founder of the Common Arab guidelines for Pharmacovigilance; Founder and First Head of The Supreme Technical Committee for Arab Medicine

Dr Amr Saad got his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from The University of Manchester in UK in 2009. He participated in more than 200 national and international conferences where he published many scientific researches all of which are abstracted in the PubMed, and more than 50 posters and countless numbers of speeches in national and international events. He is a well-known worldwide figure in the field of Pharmacovigilance and drug safety monitoring. He was the Associate Minister of Health and Head of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical vigilance Center (EPVC) at the Central Administration for Pharmaceutical Affairs (CAPA).
  • Very recently, he was appointed as the Associate Minister of Health for the pharmaceutical sector. His delegated responsibilities include the reform of the whole sector with increasing capacity and establishing the Egyptian Drug Authority.
  •  Before that, he worked very hard to unify guidelines and performance across the Arab world in the field of Pharmacovigilance. This resulted in the issue of a common decree from the Arab ministers of health [(number 7) in their 37th regular meeting in March 2012] to unify PV guidelines in all Arab World. Thus, "‘The Higher Technical Committee for Medicines" was established with representatives from all Arab countries, to create these common Arab guidelines in pharmacovigilance, and in bioequivalence. This committee elected Dr Amr Saad to lead the committee across all its rounds. The committee finished the final drafts of the two common guidelines which were submitted to the 41st regular ministers meeting, and which has been approved by them.
  • He is also a Lecturer of clinical pharmacy at Future University of Egypt (FUE), Misr International University (MIU), Cairo University & Ain Shams University where he is involved in the construction of the course content, scheduling the content, lecturing, and student evaluations (written and oral).
  • He is also a founding member in the Egyptian Clinical Pharmacy fellowship. His responsibilities included the constructing the course content, facilitating the infrastructure, scheduling the content, lecturing, and co-ordinating with other international bodies for the recognition of the fellowship (university college cork (UCC) in Ireland).
  • He is also a member in some Scientific and Technical Committees within the Egyptian Drug authority like: Pharmacovigilance, Non-Referenced Products, Essential Medicines List, Life Saving medicines, Non-Prescription Medicines, Pharmaco-economics, SSFFC.
  • Being the Head of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical vigilance Center (EPVC), His responsibilities included the construction of a national center to monitor adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from scratch. This included the recruitment of personnel; training and educating them; setting the work plan; defining guidelines and SOPs; structuring the time plan; establishing the national yellow card system; constructing the website; developing the national database for ADRs; conducting awareness campaign in universities, hospitals and for health care professionals (HCPs); and registering and reporting to the WHO-Uppsala Monitoring Center (WHO-UMC).