The Autumn 2024
SeerPharma UK Symposium
Birmingham, 17 October 2024
It is gratifying that fellow pharmaceutical professionals have supported our previous symposiums, and we continue to go from strength to strength showcasing industry-driven GDP compliance. We hope that all our attendees and speakers enjoyed themselves, heard useful content, and met and networked with peers and businesses.
We are very pleased to be able to announce that we will be hosting our next annual symposium at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, Birmingham on Thursday October 17 2024. The event will be hybrid, tickets will be available for attendance either in-person or remotely.
Again there will be the opportunity to network and meet our exhibitors at the event itself, and meet the SeerPharma UK team to discuss any compliance support your organisation might require.
The theme is ‘Showcasing industry-driven GDP compliance’ will be delivered in person in Birmingham and remotely. The speakers will be sharing their own experiences and practical tips to wholesale related problems they encounter, how they have achieved compliance and the tools they have used so you too can improve compliance and gain a broader understanding of the pharmaceutical supply chain. There will also be opportunities for open questions with the SeerPharmaUK team and industry professionals.
Register Now for In-Person Symposium
Price of In-Person ticket £325 + VAT
Register Now for Remote Symposium
Price of Remote ticket via zoom £300 + VAT
Agenda
(09.00 to 17.00 BST)
Liam Burke Masterson
– SkyCell AG
“Transforming Pharma Supply Chains: Innovating for Resilience and a Sustainable Future”
John McNulty
– Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
“Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things?”
Titus Rawlins
– Independent Human Factors Consultant
“Leadership & Followership”
Nik Lambeth
– DHL Supply Chain
“Global vs. Local approach to Good Documentation Practice & Data Integrity”
John Preston
– Healthcare Distribution Association
“HDA Overview and Strategy”
Lara Melchiorre
– Rosa Quality Consulting
“Medical devices: what every wholesale dealer needs to know”
We have a full agenda lined up for the day, presentations include;
- Industry-led presentations
- Seer Surgery session, roundtable discussion
- GDP Quiz with a prize for the winner – Back by popular demand! The quiz, with a prize for the winners. It will be the same quiz for remote and face-to-face attendees. Quiz entries will be via the same smartphone app as the one you will use to raise questions. Details to be sent with your registration
Q&As
Pre-submitted GDP questions will be answered on the day during the Seer Surgery session.
The surgery session also provides you with the opportunity to ask the speakers questions.
Who should attend?
- RPs
- QPs
- Quality Assurance Licence Holders
- Operations Managers
- Warehouse/Logistics Personnel
- Any person working in pharmaceutical distribution
What will I learn?
The day will give you:
Ideas for improving compliance within your organisation
A broader understanding of the pharmaceutical supply chain
Insight into areas that may become relevant to you and your company
Develop new ways to improve and demonstrate compliance
Get the best from your existing systems
Understand the challenges of transporting medicine in a global supply chain.
E-Certificate, CPD points, Speaker slides (post event) provided.
Venue:
Edgbaston Park Hotel
53 Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham B15 2RS
For any booking enquiries please email: enquiries@seerpharma.co.uk
Cancellation Policy:
- If you cancel 14 days or more prior to the symposium – 90% refund (10% covers admin fees).
- If you cancel 5 – 13 days before the symposium – 50% refund.
- Cancel less than 5 days before the symposium – no refund unless we can resell your place, in which case you will receive a maximum of 50% refund.
Speaker Biographies
Liam Burke Masterson – SkyCell AG
Liam is currently spearheading SkyCell’s mission to deliver safe, secure, and sustainable temperature-controlled transport solutions to the pharmaceutical industry across Ireland, the UK, and beyond. SkyCell specialises in providing innovative temperature-controlled packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries and had set ambitious emission reduction targets validated by SBTi (Science based Targets) and was recently awarded with the EcoVadis Platinum Medal, positioning it among the top 1% of all assessed companies.
With over 7 years of experience in the Middle East in cold chain environment and a return to his “very green” native island, he is passionate about promoting sustainable practices, particularly those aimed at reducing carbon emissions in supply chains. Holding an MSc in Project and Programme Management, he brings a wealth of expertise from the life science sector, including proficiency in pharmaceutical and biological sample coordination, transportation, and storage.
John McNulty – Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Hi, I’m John, Head of GDP Team 2 within Innovation and Compliance team at the MHRA. I have the privilege of managing a talented team of GDP Inspectors with a vast wealth of experience to protect public and patient health. I joined the MHRA from Industry in 2020 and became an accredited GDP inspector in 2021.
My career began in Royal Mail where I continued my logistics career becoming Post Office National Logistics Manager with 25 years of service. Prior to joining the MHRA, I worked for Boots as North-West Distribution Manager during COVID lockdown.
I hold a Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (CILT) Diploma and have a Transport Manager Certificate of professional competence. (CPC). I’ve been married for 22 years with two grown-up daughters and a rescue dog called Skye!
Titus Rawlins – Independent Human Factors Consultant
A former Royal Navy Ship’s Navigator and Diver, Titus is an airline pilot of 25 years’ experience and a Human Factors Instructor who specialises in training teams who need to perform in hazardous work environments. He is qualified to deliver regulatory training to Flight Crews by the European Union Aviation Safety Administration and both the UK’s Military and Civil Aviation Authorities.
Presenting to high performance groups and industries as diverse as Medicine and Logistics, from the UK, Europe and as far afield as Qatar and Nigeria, Titus employs a dynamic and interactive style to deliver easily relatable training models and case examples. His sessions have been proven to enhance communication and decision making, thereby minimising risk while improving efficiency, effectiveness and safety.
Nik Lambeth – DHL Supply Chain
Nik Lambeth is responsible for the Quality and Regulatory Assurance agenda for DHL Supply Chains’ Healthcare business unit within the UK. Having worked for DHL for 20 years now, Nik has been dedicated to the Lifesciences & Healthcare sector since 2013 and works with DHL’s customers to ensure the timely and compliant movement of their healthcare products around the world. Nik ensures oversight of DHLs global life sciences and healthcare network, which handles medical devices to early phase clinical trial products and everything in between.
John Preston – Healthcare Distribution Association
Having more than 30 years industry experience, John was recently appointed Regulatory and Development Director for the Healthcare Distribution Association (which represents those businesses who supply medicines, medical devices and healthcare services to patients, pharmacies, hospitals and doctors).
A registered pharmacist, John was previously Director of Wholesale Quality (RP and RPi) at Phoenix Group UK and Global Head of Quality at Uniphar Group.
Lara Melchiorre – Rosa Quality Consulting
Lara has over 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, initially working in contract manufacturing and generic manufacturing. More recently her experience has taken in roles as Responsible Person and Responsible Person (Import), alongside building her knowledge of the regulation of medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics.
Lara is a qualified PQG/IRCA Lead Auditor now provides consultancy support for clients working in the medicines wholesale distribution and medical device industries.
2023 Gallery
Here’s what people have had to say about our Symposiums:
An overall excellent symposium. The topics were very relevant, the speakers knowledgeable and articulate, and the delivery medium works very well.
Very informative presentations . Great to share good practice
Symposium was very good, some very specialist knowledge and it was good to have it from a wider industry perspective rather than just a regulators view of the world.
Well organised symposium with great speakers.
A lot of GMP specific content and case studies that would not have applied to most attendees but still a useful session.
Symposium was very interesting and informative. Lot to learn and absorb during the presentations. The best part was being remote. At your comfort, no need to travel or book a hotel and saved running around. Saved money and trouble.
Fantastic idea and well done for organising a wonderful event.
All the best for future!
Yesterdays symposium was my first exposure to Seer pharma “Gold standard” training and I found it to be very helpful indeed.
I have a shared opinion with many colleagues from other companies that the MHRA are not very approachable (and often contradictory) which makes genuine attempts to improve very difficult.
Your Symposium was far more like the open form discussion and honest opinions needed with in the industry. Presentation followed by a decent amount of question time is the way to go. Please always make time for questions and answer sections after each segment.
I look forward to participating in more Seer Pharma events in future.
Thank you all