2024 ISPE AWARDS

INDUCTION OF ISPE FELLOWS

Mehmet Burcu, FISPE
Macarius Donneyong, FISPE
Gillian Caughey, FISPE
Jessica Franklin, FISPE
Masao Iwagami, FISPE
Anton Pottegard, FISPE
Sandra Lopez Leon, FISPE
Christopher Rentsch, FISPE

EMERGING LEADER AWARD

Jenny Sun

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Yea-Huei Kao Yang

RONALD D. MANN BEST PAPER AWARDS FOR MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED IN ‎PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY (PDS)‎

Winner: Combining Super Learner with high-dimensional propensity score to improve confounding adjustment: A real-world application in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Neil Dhopeshwarkar, Wei Yang, Sean Hennessy, Joanna M. Rhodes, Adam Cuker, and Charles E. Leonard

Honorable Mentions
Bias amplification of unobserved confounding in pharmacoepidemiological studies using indication-based sampling, Viktor H. Ahlqvist, Paul Madley-Dowd, Amanda Ly, Jessica Rast, Michael Lundberg, Egill Jónsson-Bachmann, Daniel Berglind, Dheeraj Rai, Cecilia Magnusson, and Brian K. Lee

Dopamine agonists and risk of lung cancer in patients with restless legs syndrome, Yu-Xiao Yang, Pilar Hernandez-Con, Justine Shults, and Allison W. Willis

Decision and timing of safety-related labeling changes for new drugs in Japan: Comparison with the United States and the European Union, Koichi Fukuda and Mamoru Narukawa

ANDREW McAFEE AWARD FOR BEST ABSTRACT FROM A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

Lin-Chieh Meng
Paternal metformin use before pregnancy and risk of congenital malformations: a cross-national cohort study in Norway and Taiwan

JOHN SNOW AWARD FOR BEST ABSTRACT BY A RESEARCHER/STUDENT LIVING IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

Xi Xiong
Associations of serum lipid traits with fracture and osteoporosis: A prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank

STANLEY A. EDLAVITCH AWARD FOR MOST HIGHLY RATED STUDENT ABSTRACTS

FIRST PLACE
Chris Tzu-Ting Su
Risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and anticholinergic burden in Taiwan: a case-crossover and case-case-time-control study

SECOND PLACE
Liang-Yi Lin
Multitrajectories of polypharmacy composition patterns and their impacts on clinical outcomes among older people: a longitudinal cohort study

THIRD PLACE
Hung-Kai Chen
Risk of Pregnancy Loss after Prenatal Exposure to Doxycycline: A Retrospective Cohort Study

MOST HIGHLY RATED METHODS ABSTRACT SUBMITTED BY A STUDENT

Michael Chun-Yuan Cheng
Immortal bias from different lengths of grace period in a clone-censor-weight design: a simulation study

MOST HIGHLY RATED ABSTRACT SUBMITTED BY A STUDENT IN THE DRUG UTILIZATION RESEARCH ‎CATEGORY

Yu-Chen Wu
The Pharmacotherapy Options for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Taiwan and the Influencing Factors‎

SPOTLIGHT POSTER SESSION A WINNERS

Databases
Eva-Maria Didden. The Value of Large Population-based Electronic Health Record and Insurance Claims Databases for Real-World Evidence Generation in Rare Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review

Digital Epidemiology
W. Benjamin Nowell. Patient Engagement and Adherence to Digital Tasks: WEARable Activity Tracker Study Exploring Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients’ Disease Activity using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, Clinical Measures, and Biometric Sensor Data

Drug Drug Interactions
Michael Chiu. Drug-Drug Interactions Between Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants and Antiseizure Medications: A Target Trial Emulation

Drug Utilization Research
Shaleesa Ledlie. Population-Level Utilization of Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents and Trends in Hepatitis C Related Hospitalizations

Environmental Pharmacoepidemiology
Jonas A. Muller. Climate Impact of Intravenous versus Oral Antibiotics: A Comparative Waste Assessment

Geriatrics
Sri Harsha Chalasani. De-Med: Developing a Tool for Identifying and Categorizing Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly Using Beers Criteria, STOPP, and FORTA - A Cross-Sectional Study

SPOTLIGHT POSTER SESSION B WINNERS

Health Equity ‎
Harriet Dickinson. What We Owe to Patients: A Systematic Literature Review into ‎Reporting of Potential Biases in Clinical Decision Support Tools that Use AI to ‎Personalise Care in Viral Hepatitis

Medical Devices
Jialin Mao. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: Physician-Level ‎Mechanisms

Medications in Pregnancy
Emma Cleary. Associations between Dose of Prescribed Opioid Analgesic Exposure During ‎Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes and Early Mortality: A Population-Based Study

Pediatrics
Celeste Ewig. Pediatric Utilization of New Molecular Entities (NMEs): A Summary of Early Post-‎marketing Uptake in the Sentinel Distributed Database

Rare Diseases
Laura Birks. Leverage of an EHR Database to Estimate Prevalence and Incidence of Lymphatic ‎Malformations (A Rare Disease) in the UK

RWE Collaborative
George SQ Tan. Tree-Based Scan Statistics to Identify Drug Repurposing Signals: A Test Case Using ‎Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors‎

Vaccines
Débora D. Gräf. Special Populations Addressed in Vaccines Approved via the European ‎Medicines Agency

SPOTLIGHT POSTER SESSION C WINNERS

Adherence‎
Thibaut Davy-Mendez. Gender Differences in Statin Persistence Across Racial and Ethnic Groups Among Persons with HIV in ‎the United States

ASPEN
Adrienne Chan. Multinational Prescribing Trends of Lithium from 2001 to 2019: A Retrospective Observational Study ‎Using Population-Based Databases from 17 Countries and One Special Administrative Region

Biologics
Sabrina Giometto. Trajectories of Adherence to Biological Drugs in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: the ‎VALORE Project

BRACE
Diogo Almeida. A Comparative Analysis of Imposed Post-Authorization Measures for Advanced Therapy Medicinal ‎Products Approved Between 2009-2013 in Europe and in United States of America‎

Cancer
Harriet Forbes. Live Birth Rate in Female Breast Cancer Survivors Compared with the General Population: Matched Cohort Study Using Linked UK Electronic Health Records

Cell & Gene Therapy
Ju Hwan Kim. Effectiveness of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel Versus Conventional Treatments as First-Line Therapy in ‎Patients with High-Risk Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A Retrospective External Comparator Study

Comparative Effectiveness
Jeffrey R. Curtis. Comparative Effectiveness of Denosumab versus Bisphosphonates Among Treatment-Experienced Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis in the U.S. Medicare Program