Program

Day 1 – Monday 1 August 2011

9:00 – 9:45 Registration, Welcome Coffee & Trade Exhibition
Opening of ARCS Conference
Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition
9:45 – 11:00 Opening Plenary
11:10 – 12:30 Medicines PBAC guidelines workshop stream (MM2)
Devices MSAC Stream (MD3)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch & Trade Exhibition
1:30 -3:00 Medicines PBAC guidelines workshop stream (MM4)
Devices MSAC Stream (MD5)
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition
3:30 – 5:00 Medicines PBAC guidelines workshop stream (MM6)
Devices PLAC Stream (MD7)
5:30 – 7.00 Welcome Reception & Networking
7:00 – 10:00 Conference Dinner

Day 2 – Tuesday 2 August 2011

8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition
9:30 – 10:00 Plenary The emerging landscape for health technology assessment (HTA) for reimbursement and access to devices and emerging or converging technologies (TP1)
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00 Medicines

Collecting and presenting expert opinions & Principles of Good Practices for Decision Analytic Modelling (TM2)

  Devices

MSAC Stream (TD3)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch & Trade Exhibition
1:00 – 2:30 Medicines Strategies for literature searching and optimising outputs and Health Technology Assessment in Australia – Who Said What, When: A Literature Review (TM4)
Devices PLAC Stream – Industry reflections of the working with PLAC / CAG (TD5)
2:30 – 3:00 Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition
3:00 – 4:00 Update from the Pharmaceutical Evaluation Branch (TM6)
3:00 – 4:00 PASC Stream  Developing a Decision Analytic Protocol for the Protocol Advisory Subcommittee (TD7)

DISCLAIMER: Some speakers and topics will be changed as it is finalised. ARCS Australia reserves the right to change the program and contents as necessary.

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