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Larry Ereshefsky, PharmD
Chief Scientific Officer, California Clinical Trials; VP, Principal Clinical Pharmacologist, and Psychiatric Therapeutic Expert, PAREXEL International; Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Thursday, November 5 07:45-09:00 a.m.
413 - Dosage Formulation Technologies for Psychotropics: The Edge of the Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Interface RX
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers EFKL
Larry Ereshefsky, PharmD, Chief Scientific Officer, California Clinical Trials; VP, Principal Clinical Pharmacologist, and Psychiatric Therapeutic Expert, PAREXEL International; Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. List Five Strategies to Modify Delivery of Medications;
  2. Explain what are the possible pharmacodynamic advantages, which result from dosage formulation related changes in drug concentrations at their sites of action;
  3. Identify future strategies for drug delivery and monitoring systems;
  4. Summarize data available supporting (or not) the advantages of novel dosage forms;
  5. Describe research strategies (and clinical approaches) to study the safety and efficacy of novel antipsychotic dosage forms.
Thursday, November 5 09:15-10:30 a.m.
426 - What Happened to Novel Development of Drugs To Treat Schizophrenia: Back to the Future? PD NP
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers EFKL
Larry Ereshefsky, PharmD, Chief Scientific Officer, California Clinical Trials; VP, Principal Clinical Pharmacologist, and Psychiatric Therapeutic Expert, PAREXEL International; Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Upon the compleion of this activiy, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the typical study design strategies used for the approval of a new antipsychotic in the United States and the European Union;
  2. List the newly approved (and not approved) medications for the treatment of schizophrenia, and how they differ from current therapies;
  3. Describe how the deconstruction of schizophrenia into endophenotypes and syndromes has stimulated a new generation of pharmacotherapeutic research and;
  4. List novel possible drug therapies that appear to work via glutamate/glycinergic.

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