Pharmacology and Therapeutics-IIA (PHARM 512): Associations

The Sri Lanka Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (SLACPT), is the national professional association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Sri Lanka. Established in 2015, the SLACPT is a non-profit organization, and its members contribute towards its many activities entirely voluntarily. The Association serve as a catalyst for professional and academic development of its members, and it is committed to developing the field of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Sri Lanka. The association further aims to promote best practices in utilisation of medicines for improved patient care, whilst being an advocacy body on policy and regulation of pharmaceuticals in the country. The members of SLACPT are a diverse group of medical professionals who possess both scientific and clinical expertise. This unique combination enables the SLACPT to effectively play a vital role in improving patient care through its many activities and publications.

The Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT) was founded on July 1, 2008. It was born out of a merger of the Canadian Society for Clinical Pharmacology (CSCP) and the Pharmacological Society of Canada (PSC), each of which had been in existence for over 25 years.

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) has its origins in a working party brought together under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO-Europe) in the early 1980s. The chairman of the working party was Prof Folke Sjöqvist (Sweden) and some ten European countries were represented on the working party. Over the years the group produced a number of published papers on the organisation of Clinical Pharmacology, the teaching of CPT and concerns such as primary care involvement with clinical pharmacology. In the early 1990s some members of this group met in Verona (Italy) to consider creating a Europe wide body to encourage clinical pharmacology and therapeutic interests throughout Europe. After consultation across Europe a committee was created in 1993 under the chairmanship of Prof Folke Sjöqvist with the remit to prepare the first congress of EACPT which was held in Paris in 1995. At that congress a formal constitution was agreed by the Council (formed by representative delegates from all countries involved). Members of Council elected an Executive Committee with Prof Sjöqvist as chairman, Prof Michael Orme (UK) as Honorary Secretary, Prof Jochen Kuhlmann (Germany) as Treasurer and Prof Giampaolo Velo (Italy) as Vice-Chairman. At that stage there were 26 European Countries in membership of EACPT through the Clinical Pharmacology society or section in their home country.