Educational sessions – Friday 21 November 2025
Venue: Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong

TRACK A: DATABASE PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY (INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE)
We will introduce participants to the types of healthcare databases used in pharmacoepidemiology research; discuss how to design and evaluate studies based on these datasets; and explore the practical necessities of drafting study protocols and implementing statistical coding.

Session coordinators:
Dr Benjamin Daniels, Senior Research Fellow, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Celine Sze Ling Chui, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong

Instructors:
Dr Le Gao, Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong University, China
Dr Benjamin Daniels, Senior Research Fellow, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Stella Talic, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

TRACK B: NON-DATABASE PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY (INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE)
We will introduce participants to various study designs in pharmacoepidemiology, and how to write protocol, perform statistical analysis, and critically appraise a non-database pharmacoepidemiologic study.  

Session coordinator:
Dr Krishna Undela, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Guwahati

Instructors:
Dr Yinghui Liu, MSD, China
Dr Krishna Undela, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Guwahati

TRACK C: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS TO SUPPORT PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH
We will introduce participants to recent developments in artificial intelligence and how these tools can be implemented in your pharmacoepidemiology research workflow. The instructors will introduce participants to fundamental concepts related to language and prediction models. The sessions will demonstrate how specific artificial intelligence tools can be used in practice to standardize and streamline common tasks that pharmacoepidemiologists perform throughout a project lifecycle including data collection (e.g., natural language processing of unstructured clinical data), predictive modelling and publishing medication-related studies in digital health or artificial intelligence journals.

Session coordinator:
Dr Joseph Edgar Blais, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong

Instructors:
Dr Amy H Y Chan, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Auckland
Prof Qingpeng Zhang, Associate Professor, Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Emmanuel Chun-Ka Wong, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Deliang Yang, Post-doctoral fellow, the Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Mr Daniel Qi Sun, PhD student, the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong
Dr Jay Gong, Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland

TRACK D: ADVANCED PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY
This session will introduce participants to advanced topics in pharmacoepidemiology, with a focus on the pitfalls and nuances of advanced methods in comparative effectiveness research.

Session coordinators:
Dr Joshua Kueiyu Lin, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical school, USA
Hu Li MD PhD, Head of Epidemiology and RWE, Neurocrine Biosciences, USA

Speakers:
Prof Benjamin Bates, Assistant Professor, Center for Pharmacoepideimology and Treatment Science, Rutgers University, USA
Prof Soko Setoguchi, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Medical School and Rutgers School of Public Health, USA
Prof Edward Lai, Professor, School of Pharmacy, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Dr Kenneth Man, University College London, School of Pharmacy, United Kingdom
Prof Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA
Prof Xin Sun Director, Chinese Evidence Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Xiang Zhang PhD, Head Medical Affairs and HTA Statistics/Co-Lead FORExecellence, CSL Behring, USA