Programme

JOINT CONFERENCE
of the Association of the European Self-Medication Industry (AESGP)
& the Romanian Association of the Self-Care Industry (RASCI)
Wednesday, 19 October 2016

JW Marriott Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania

The role of self-care in healthcare

Session 2

Session 1
13.30

16.00
The importance of adequate communication
rules in self-care

Welcome coffee

14.00
Self-care: role, regulation and market developments

Introduction
Diana Mereu, Executive Director, RASCI

Chair
Dirk Ossenberg-Engels, AESGP Vice-President

16.20
Improving public health through self-care in Romania

Introduction
Razvan Bosinceanu, RASCI President

Diana Loreta Paun, State Adviser for the Department of Public

Health, Presidential Administration, Romania

14.20
How to bring stakeholders together
Pete Smith, Co-Chair, Self-Care Forum, United Kingdom
14.40
Regulation of self-care products in Romania
Nicolae Fotin, President, National Agency for Medicines
and Medical Devices (ANMDM), Romania
Tatiana Onisei, Head of the National Office for Medicinal
Plants, National R&D Institute for Food Bioresources (INCDBA
IBA Bucuresti), Romania

Marian Pana, Sales & Marketing Director, Cegedim Customer

Information, Romania
Roundtable discussion

15.30

Coffee break

16.40
Best practices to inform citizens on self-care
Raymond Anderson, President, Commonwealth Pharmacists
Association and Member of the Pharmacovigilance Risk
Assessment Committee (PRAC) at the European Medicines
Agency (EMA)
17.00
Role of pharmacists in the communication on self-care
Doina Draganescu, President of the Electoral Commission,
Romanian College of Pharmacists (CFR), Romania
17.20
Self-regulation of self-care products

15.00
Self-Care Market evolution and trends

15.20

Chair
Hubertus Cranz, Director General, AESGP

Oana Cociasu, President, Romanian Advertising Council (RAC),

Romania
17.40

Roundtable discussion

17.50

Conclusions and next steps

18.00-20.00

Dinner

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