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Brookings Roundtable on Active Medical Product Surveillance: Overview of the Mini-Sentinel Pilot

Event Information
Date
Event Type
Webinar
Description

On September 15, the Engelberg Center hosted the second webinar in the Sentinel Initiative 101 Webinar Series, “Overview of FDA’s Mini-Sentinel Pilot.” This webinar featured a presentation from the Mini-Sentinel principal investigator, Dr. Richard Platt, Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Dr. Platt’s presentation described Mini-Sentinel’s capabilities and lessons learned since the contract was awarded in October, 2009.  Specific topics included:  

  • Governance principles and policies
  • Key achievements from the Mini-Sentinel Data Core, Methods Core, and Protocol Core, and
  • An example of a recent rapid query assessment conducted by Mini-Sentinel.

The third and final webinar will cover other Sentinel Initiative activities: Federal Partners Collaboration, the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP), and the Brookings Institution’s broader convening activities.

Event Materials

https://www.brookings.edu/events/brookings-roundtable-on-active-medical-product-surveillance-overview-of-the-mini-sentinel-pilot/

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Host

Mark B. McClellan MD, PhD, MPA; Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

Presenter(s)

Richard Platt MD, MSc; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA