Symposium 11: Modern teaching ofPharmacoepidemiology in a ‘Big Data’ WorldModerator
Robert W. Platt, McGill University, Canada
Robert Platt is Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and ofEpidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health (EBOH) at McGill
University, and Director of Graduate Programs in the department of EBOH.
He is a Senior Investigator at the Research Institute of the McGill University
Health Centre and the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital,and Investigator at the McGill Pharmacoepidemiology Research Unit. Heholds the Albert Boehringer I endowed chair in Pharmacoepidemiology. Dr.
Platt is the Executive Co-Lead and leader of the Methods team of theCanadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES). His
research focuses on improving methods for the study of medications using administrative data,with an emphasis on methods for causal inference. His substantive research focuses onstudies in pregnancy. Dr. Platt is on the editorial board of the American Journal ofEpidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety and Current Epidemiology Reports,
and is Associate Editor of Statistics in Medicine and the International Journal of Biostatistics.
He has published over 300 articles, one book and several book chapters on epidemiology.

Speakers
Kristian Filion, McGill University, CanadaDr. Filion is a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology,
Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University, an Investigator at
the Center for Clinical Epidemiology of the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish
General Hospital, and an Investigator at the McGill Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Unit. He is a Steering Committee member and Co-Lead of theClinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Team of the Canadian Networkfor Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), a pan-Canadian drug
safety network that addresses emerging questions of drug safety andeffectiveness posed by government stakeholders such as Health
Canada. He leads an independent research program focused on the use of large, populationbased databases to study the effectiveness, safety, and utilization of prescription drugs in realworld settings with a substantive focus on cardiometabolic conditions including cardiovasculardisease and diabetes. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Dr. Filion is amember of the Permanent Scientific Committee for the Evaluation of Medications of the Institut
national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (Quebec’s health technology
assessment agency), which helps inform policy regarding which drugs should be listed inQuebec’s provincial drug formulary. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed publications.

Seoyoung C. Kim, Harvard Medical School, USA
Seoyoung C. Kim, MD, ScD., MSCE is an Associate Professor of Medicine
at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Program in
Rheumatologic, Immunologic and Musculoskeletal PharmacoEpidemiology(PRIME) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). She is board-certified
rheumatologist and co-appointed in the Division of Rheumatology at BWH.
Her research focuses on comparative safety and effectiveness of opioids,
biologic or conventional immunosuppressive drugs used in various
rheumatic diseases. Her research work is primarily funded by the NIH andinvestigator-initiated research grants from industry. She is an Associate
Editor for Arthritis Care & Research and ACR Open Rheumatology and serve as a Special
Government Employee for the U.S. FDA Arthritis Advisory Committee. She serves on the Drug
Safety Monitoring Board as a Safety Officer for an NIH-funded clinical trial of certolizumab.
After graduating from Hanyang University College of Medicine in Korea, she completed theinternal Medicine residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo and therheumatology fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania and BWH. She received amaster’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctoral
degree in Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
Nicole Pratt, University of South Australia, Australia
Dr Nicole Pratt is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of theQuality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom
Institute, University of South Australia. She is a member of the Drug
Utilisation Subcommittee (DUSC) of the Australian Department of HealthPharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). Nicole leads theevaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans’ Medicines
Advice and Therapeutics Education Service (Veterans’ MATES) program
which uses administrative claims data to develop and evaluate
interventions to improve use of medicines in the veteran population inAustralia. She is a past-chair of the Asian Pharmacoepidemiology
Network (AsPEN) initiative (www.aspennet.asia) and a collaborator of Observational Health andData Sciences and Informatics (www.ohdsi.org) which aims to bring out the value of healthdata through large-scale analytics.
Rae Woong Park, Ajou University, South Korea
Prof. Rae Woong Park is the Director and Professor of the Department of
Biomedical Informatics at Ajou University School of Medicine, South
Korea, and Chairman of board of The Korean Society of Medical
Informatics (KOSMI). He graduated Ajou University Medical School(1995)Dr Park is an active international collaborator of OHDSI. He has devoted
himself as a missionary of Common Data Model (CDM) in Korea. Now
OMOP-CDM has adopted as major healthcare research standard and platform in South Korea
He in charge of FEEDERNET (Federated E-health Big Data for Evidence Renovation
Network), a 3-year research project (2018-2022) granted from government. The total budgetof the project is about 20M USD. Sixty-two largest Korean hospitals joined the FEEDERNET
and he is converting the participating hospitals’ EHR data into CDM and developing a cloudresearch platform that works on the CDM network. He enormously contributed to let Korean
government raise new > 30 research grants on CDM (2018-2022) with total budget of 40MUSD.