Welcome to the 2026 ISPE Annual Conference.

**Please Note: Listed times are for Central European Summer Time (CEST)**

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Plenary Session 1

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

Welcome to ISPE 2026 and Keynote Session: Peter R. Arlett, MD

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Oral Presentations Session 1

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1A – Will AI Steal Our Jobs?

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1B – Brain, Bones, Blood Sugar: Medication Effects in Older Adults

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1C – Vaccines: Novel Approaches for Assessing Safety, Effectiveness, and Use

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1D – Signal, Evidence, Action: Advancing Drug Safety Science

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1E – Going for the Gold: Oncology RWD Safety

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1F – Lightning: Three Panels on Methods

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

1G – Cardiometabolic indications of use and cardiometabolic effects of diabetes medications

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Symposia & Workshops: Session 1

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1A – When Machines Do the Science: If and When We Trust Agentic AI in Pharmacoepidemiology

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1B – From inception to reporting: the resources you need for flawless target trial emulation

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1C – Timing Is Everything: Leveraging Time-to-Event Approaches in Perinatal Pharmacoepidemiology

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1D – Towards the use of real-world data for regulatory and health technology assessment decision-making: Results from five EU-funded projects

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1E – Enhancing peer review of pharmacoepidemiology manuscripts: Perspectives from the Editors of Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1F – Emerging Methods for Studying Drug-Environment Interactions

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

SW-1G – Who checks the code and how? Current gaps and emerging solutions for review and validation of analytical code

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Oral Presentations: Session 2

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2A – Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Treatment Effects Under Censoring

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2B – Being methodologic in drug utilization: Navigating Definitions, Patterns, and Real-World Challenges

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2C – How Do Exposed Pregnancies End?

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2D – No Small Risks: Understanding Safety in Pediatric Vaccination and Treatment

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2E – Transforming Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapies: Safety and Effectiveness of Emerging Drug Classes

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2F – Serious Safety Outcomes in Neuropsychiatric Patients

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3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CEST

2G – A Systems View of Health: Integrating Environmental Exposures, Equity, and Real-World Outcomes

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Symposia & Workshops: Session 2

5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2A – Systematic Drug Repurposing Research Using Healthcare Databases: Methods for Large-Scale Discovery and Evaluation

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2B – Medication Adherence Trajectories Modelling: A Review of Implementation, Reporting Practices, and Pitfalls

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2C – Less May Be More—for Everyone? Advancing the Science of Deprescribing

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2D – Identify, Quantify and Act: Advancing Methods for Reducing Bias from Measurement Error

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2E – Data Are Not Enough – Communication Practices for Pharmacoepidemiologists in a Complex Information Ecosystem

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2F – The Great Debate by Members of the Academic Council: Use of Artificial Intelligence by Students

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5:15 PM – 6:45 PM CEST

SW-2G – Fake World Data, Real World Problems—Simulations for the pharmacoepidemiologist

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Oral Presentations: Session 3

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3A – Diabetes medications and safety outcomes

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3B – Medicines, Methods, and Meaning: Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology in the Real World

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3C – One Size Does Not Fit All

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3D – Your AI in action: data handling, classification and prediction

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3E – Risk Happens: Infections, Injuries, and Vaccines in Older Adults

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3F – Lightning: Drug Safety Effectiveness

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8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST

3G – Catching What We Miss: Negative Controls and Signal Detection

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Plenary Session 2

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CEST

Hot Topic Session; Acetaminophen (paracetamol) and Autism: Evidence interpretation and communication

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Symposia & Workshops: Session 3

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3A – Navigating the AI Era in Pharmacovigilance – Pharmacoepidemiology Beyond Traditional Methods

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3B – How Patients are Different – Making data linkage and research more fit-for-purpose for therapeutic and regulatory decisions

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3C – Real-World Evidence in Regulatory Decision-Making: Lessons Learned from Recent FDA Approvals and the Advancing RWE Program

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3D – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Including People in Studies Multiple Times

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3E – A Missing Link for Improving Patient Health Outcomes? Adding Nutritional Assessment to the Pharmacoepidemiology Toolbox

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3F – Tomorrow’s Evidence 2.0: Replace, Refine, or Reframe the Evidence Pyramid? A Live Framework Build

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1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CEST

SW-3G – Workshop: Having patients – Improving patient involvement in RWD research

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Plenary Session 3

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM CEST

AGM & Awards Ceremony

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Oral Presentations: Session 4

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4A – What Gets Measured Gets Estimated

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4B – Beyond the Prescription: Evolving Patterns in Antipsychotic and Psychotropic Drug Utilization

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4C – When Early Conditions Shape What Follows

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4D – Balancing Maternal Outcomes and Infant Risks in Mental Health

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4E – Pain across indications: real-world effects of treatment

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4F – Transforming Cardiovascular Drug Evidence: Effectiveness Studies And Target Trial Emulation

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4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CEST

4G – Targeted Therapies, Real-World Safety and Effectiveness

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Oral Presentations: Session 5

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5A – Delivering Meaningful Answers in Clinical Decision-Making for Prenatal Exposures

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5B – Average is Overrated: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5C – Function Over Fashion: Innovative Control Designs in Oncology

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5D – Miscuglio: A Mixture of Safety and Autoimmune Pharmacoepi Outcomes

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5E – Evidence to Action: Informing Cardiovascular Drug Safety and Effectiveness

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5F – Three Panels on Drug Utilization

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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CEST

5G – Neuropsychiatric Safety in the Elderly

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Symposia & Workshops: Session 4

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4A – Negative Controls in the Spotlight – recent developments and best practice

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4B – Applying Transportability Methods to Rare Diseases: Methods, Applications, and Considerations for Decision-Making

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4C – Externally Controlled Trials (ECT) for Evidence Generation in Regulatory Decision-Making: challenges, emerging frameworks, and regulatory use cases

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4D – ICPE Geriatric SIG-endorsed Symposium Proposal: Target Trial Emulation for Deprescribing Research and Emerging AI Applications

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4E – Driving High Quality RWE in Oncology: Integration, Validation, and AI Harmonization

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4F – Spot the AI Slop: AI-Generated Content in Real-World Evidence Publications and its Implications for Systematic Literature Reviews

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10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

SW-4G – Right on Time: Practical Approaches to Mitigating Time-Related Biases in Target Trial Emulation for Oncology

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Oral Presentations: Session 6

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6A – What are we assuming?

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6B – From Antibiotics to Antidiabetics and Weight Loss: Evolving Patterns in Drug Utilization

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6C – Cardiometabolic Treatments in Pregnancy

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6D – Signals to Sequelae: Modern Methods in Disease Course Epidemiology

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6E – Designing the Trial We Wish We Ran: Target Trial Emulation in Pediatrics

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6F – Beyond the Numbers: Real-World Economics and Outcomes Driving Decisions

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1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST

6G – Unintended beneficial effects of diabetes medications

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Plenary Session 4

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM CEST

Plenary: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products

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4:45 PM – 5:15 PM CEST

The Final Word

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