Panel 2: Libby Baney, Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies

Libby Baney, advisor for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, spoke as part of Panel 2, “Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Sales.” She moved the crowd in her opening statement with a personal story of her sister’s encounter with counterfeit drugs.

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Panel 2: Alex Bamiagis, IPEC

Moderator Scotti Russell, from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which received the Partnership for Safe Medicines Guardian Award last night, led the "Combating Drug Counterfeiting & Sales" panel. The first speaker, Alex Bamiagis, advisor for the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) Victoria Espinel while on detail from U.S. Customs and Border Protection…

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Panel 1: Travis Johnson, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition

Travis Johnson, Director of Legislative Affairs and Policy, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, spoke on panel one about what industry is doing to fight counterfeiting.   He said that the borders are not the only places to look for counterfeit medicines and that law enforcement has to ask "how are people finding the fake drugs?"   He…

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Panel 1: Alex Dahl, Coalition for Patient Safety and Medicine Integrity

Alex Dahl, Coalition for Patient Safety and Medicine Integrity, spoke first at the "Protecting Our Medicines" panel about cargo theft, and the stealing of medicines out of the legitimate supply chain. What is the crime problem?  Large, sophisiticated criminal organizations are taking methodical stpes to steal medicines from cargo, and then reintroduce them into the…

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Panel 1: Michael Levy, Food and Drug Administration

Michael Levy, acting director of the Office of Drug Security, Integrity and Recalls (ODSIR) in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's (CDER) Office of Compliance at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, spoke on the reorganization of the CDER. FDA's diversion and counterfeit criminal case information analyzed 5 years worth of cases to better…

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Interchange Opens with Executive Director Remarks

The Partnership for Safe Medicines Interchange 2011 opened at 8:30am with remarks by Scott LaGanga, Executive Director of PSM.   Said LaGanga, last year’s Interchange focused on who are the actors in the world of counterfeit medicines: the criminals, the victims and law enforcement that works to stop the criminals and help the victims.  This…

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Representative Matheson Makes Opening Remarks at Interchange

Congressman Jim Matheson of Utah's Second Congressional District spoke at the opening of the Partnership for Safe Medicines Interchange.   He talked about legislation he has introduced into Congress to secure the drug supply and took questions from the audience. A question from the audience asked how the legislation would address medicines purchased over the…

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