Medisafecon 2023 on 16th September, 2023 at Altair Boutique Hotel, Kolkataqu
17th September 2023 is being celebrated as World Patient Safety day as per communication from World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s theme is “Engaging Patients for Patient Safety” and increasing awareness about increasing the patient’s role in their safety in healthcare. Like last year, we at Peerless Hospital, Kolkata are organizing a one day conference ” MediSafeCon” on 16th September 2023 with the theme “Engaging patients for Medication safety” dedicated to increasing awareness about patient’s role in improving medication safety in clinical practice among pharmacists, nurses and doctors. Following sessions will be conducted leading doctors, pharmacologists, nurses and medicolegal experts of India and abroad.
- Medication safety issues in Critical Care practice (Antimicrobial stewardship)
- Medication safety issues in Rare Diseases in Paediatric practice
- Medication safety issues in Oncology practice
- Medication safety issues in Gastroenterology practice
- Medication safety issues in Insulin usage
- Medication safety issues in Cardiology
- Medication safety issues in Dysphagia
- Patient engagement in Hospitals: Challenges and opportunities
Our conference where senior doctors, nurses, medical pharmacologists & pharmacists will discuss medication safety issues during clinical practice is being held in hybrid mode (online and offline), so that maximum healthcare workers and patients across the globe can receive the knowledge and information being shared during the conference.
The Conference academic partners include Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PVPI), IPC, Ghaziabad,India , CureSMA Foundation of India, Patient Academy for Innovation and Research, India along with Trained Nurses Association of India (West Bengal branch) and Indian Pharmaceutical Association (West Bengal branch) for their support and help in organizing this conference
Dr Neelam Dhingra, Unit Head, WHO Patient Safety Flagship: A Decade of Patient Safety 2021-2030, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland has kindly agreed to become the Guest of Honor and deliver the plenary talk. She will speak on WHO theme of “Engaging patients for Patient safety”
We are very happy to have Ms Helen Haskell ( Patient Safety advocate, USA) , Ms Sue Sheriden (Patient Safety Advocate, USA) and Prof (Dr) Albert Wu, Johns Hopkins University, USA along with Prof (Dr) Kok Tan from Singapore & Prof (Dr) Cecilia Lundborg from Karolinka Insitute, Sweden as our esteemed international faculties for our conference along with National faculties like Dr Ratna Devi and Prof (Dr) Sangeeta Sharma from New Delhi, India, Dr Apurba Ghosh, renowned paediatrician from Kolkata, Dr Subhash Todi, Dr Ashokananda Konar, Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmik and many more illustrious medical experts
The conference will see patients discuss their issues of difficult communication regarding medications and its side effects with doctors and nurses. Experts will suggest solutions of how these communication problems can be overcome and medicines can be used safely during clinical practice
