IATDMCT Congress 2024 – Banff, Canada (Sep 15 – 18)

The Congress is now just 3 weeks away. There is still time to register! We have an excellent scientific program lined up.

In addition to the symposia organized by the scientific committees, our plenary speakers will present on indigenous health, the use of psychedelics in psychiatry and precision medicine in cancer treatment. Peruse the wide variety of topics being presented as roundtables and sign up for the one that piques your interest. Also, don’t forget to register for the Pre-Congress (Sep 15/2024) “Exploring New Frontiers in Clinical Toxicology”. A variety of topics will be covered including the health impacts of the legalization of marijuana, wastewater testing for drugs, the proliferation of semi-synthetic cannabis compounds, drug checking services and the discovery of novel psychoactive substances with artificial intelligence. There will be over 150 poster presentations and a vibrant exhibit hall where you can speak with vendors about their products and services crucial to the delivery of our respective TDM and Toxicology services. Don’t miss out on this scientific extravaganza!

Congress Dinner at Mountview BBQ!

Don't forget to buy a ticket to the Tuesday evening dinner event at Mountview BBQ! Join over 150 of your colleagues at this unique western Canadian experience!

For more information, please refer to the Congress website: BANFF, CANADA – September 15-18, 2024 (iatdmct2024.org).

Register Now!

Congress Chairs:
Penny Colbourne and David Kinniburgh

Congress website: iatdmct2024.org

Contact Us: info@iatdmct2024.org

Arriving by Air to Calgary

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Shuttle Service to Banff

We are pleased to provide IATDMCT delegates with promotion codes for two shuttle service options to Banff. Details are available here: https://iatdmct2024.org/getting-to-banff/

IMPORTANT TRAVEL INFORMATION

Be sure to check the Travel Tips page on the website. Visitors from some countries require a visa to enter Canada. Visitors from visa-exempt countries may require an Electronic Travel Authorization.

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Join us in maintaining the IATDMCT membership! We look forward to inspiring many further colleagues who share with us the idea of an optimized and personalized drug treatment to join us in IATDMCT. Please ensure you renew your membership in order to retain your IATDMCT member benefits.

Our 2024 Member-Get-A Member Campaign is now up and running! Members are invited to inform their colleagues (who are not members yet) about the benefits of membership. Let’s build a strong partnership together!

Campaign Deadline: August 31, 2024.

The top recruiter (with at least 50%-paying members) will gain a free registration for the IATDMCT Congress 2024 in Banff.

In this issue:

• Small Drops, Big Impact: Finger Prick Testing to Personalize Treatment And Dosing
• Levelling Up Our Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance Using Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
• Serving Environmental Toxicology with Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence Tools
• Electrochemical Technique: An Alternative Method for Quantification of Drugs for TDM
• Banff Congress 2024

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Given we traditionally only monitored particular antibiotics to spare toxicity, and that beta lactams were widely considered such safe drugs, it was once difficult to imagine this drug class would become important TDM candidates. A bit more than a decade ago we started to see the first reports about augmented renal clearance in critically ill patients, often in situations in which antibiotic treatment was crucial, such as sepsis. TDM of beta lactams in the critical care is now recognised as a valuable tool to ensure adequate drug exposure and optimise therapeutic outcomes for these vulnerable patients. But the space is full of nuances and unanswered questions remain.

We are joined today by two big names in this space, Professors Birgit Koch and Jason Roberts, who we are fortunate to have help us navigate this complex therapeutic domain.

Stay ahead with the latest scientific research developments in the fields of TDM and CT!

The monthly Therapeutic Drug Monitoring column provides you with the latest posts of ahead-of-print. Bringing to you articles posted online July 2 – July 31, 2024:

ORIGINAL ARTICLES:

• From Bed to Bench: Pre-analytical Stability of 29 Anti-infective Agents in Plasma and Whole Blood to Improve Accuracy of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  Magreault, Sophie; Pierredon, Dorine; Akinotcho-Relouzat, Judith; Méchaï, Frédéric; Lamy, Brigitte; Jaureguy, Françoise; Jullien, Vincent
  July 2, 2024
• Quantification of the Plasma Concentration of Vadadustat by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet Detection and Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
  Yokoyama, Satoshi; Nakagawa, Junichi; Shimada, Michiko; Ueno, Kayo; Ishiyama, Masahiro; Nakamura, Norio; Tomita, Hirofumi; Niioka, Takenori
  July 2, 2024
• Association Among Vitamin D Supplementation, Serum 25(OH)D Concentrations, and Mortality Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study Using NHANES 2007–2018 Data
  Liu, Hong; Bai, Yu
  July 5, 2024
• New Predictive Equation for the Estimation of Plasma Concentrations of Formed Colistin in Patients Treated with Colistimethate Sodium for Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
  Luque, Sonia; Sorlí, Luisa; Li, Jian; Fernández-Sala, Xènia; Berenguer, Nuria; Colominas-González, Elena; Benítez-Cano, Adela; Montero, María Milagro; Subirana, Isaac; Prim, Nuria; García-Paricio, Ramón; Horcajada, Juan Pablo; Grau, Santiago
  July 9, 2024
• Optimal Teicoplanin Trough Concentration With Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  Hanai, Yuki; Oda, Kazutaka; Ueda, Takashi; Matsumoto, Kazuaki; Murakami, Lisa; Uekusa, Shusuke; Ohashi, Hayato; Nishimura, Koji; Takesue, Yoshio; Matsuo, Kazuhiro
  July 9, 2024
• Lack of Interchangeability Between 3 Different Methods for Quantification of Everolimus in Blood: ACMIA, LTIA, and UHPLC-MS/MS
  Miyagi, Chika; Tanaka, Ryota; Shiraiwa, Ken; Tatsuta, Ryosuke; Itoh, Hiroki
  July 31, 2024

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS:

• Switching Vancomycin Monitoring From Trough Concentration to Area Under the Curve Estimation by Bayesian Forecasting: A Short Communication on a Cost-Benefit Study in Resource-Limited Settings
  Telles, João Paulo; Coelho, Diogenes Jr; Migotto, Karen Cristina; Diegues, Mariana Suelotto; Leao, Erica Rocha; Reghini, Rodrigo; Martinez Martos, Natalia; Caruso, Pedro; França e Silva, Ivan Leonardo
  July 5, 2024
• Limited Sampling Strategies Fail to Accurately Predict Mycophenolic Acid Area Under the Curve in Kidney Transplant Recipients and the Impact of Enterohepatic Recirculation
  Mohamed, Moataz E.; Saqr, Abdelrahman; Al-Kofahi, Mahmoud; Onyeaghala, Guillaume; Remmel, Rory P.; Staley, Christopher; Dorr, Casey R.; Teigen, Levi; Guan, Weihua; Madden, Henry; Munoz, Julia; Vo, Duy; Sanchez, Bryan; El-Rifai, Rasha; Oetting, William S.; Matas, Arthur J.; Israni, Ajay K.; Jacobson, Pamala A.
  July 23, 2024

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

• Exploring the Role of Toxicogenetics in Understanding Discrepancies Between Blood Concentrations and Clinical Outcomes in 3-Methylmethcathinone Intoxications
  Drevin, Guillaume; Baudriller, Antoine; Briet, Marie; Abbara, Chadi
  July 3, 2024
• Serum Profiles of Solifenacin and Interleukin-6 and Their Relationship With Psychiatric Symptoms in a Patient With Overactive Bladder Syndrome and Systemic Inflammation
  Terasawa, Miho; Shibata, Kaito; Mimura, Akira; Nakatsugawa, Emi; Takahashi, Kazuhito; Nakamura, Toshinori; Saigusa, Tatsuya; Naito, Takafumi
  July 12, 2024

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At the IATDMCT 2024 Banff Congress, the IATDMCT Communications Committee will hold a symposium to present the research work conducted by IATDMCT Communications Committee members. These are the presentations:

#1
Smita Pattanaik (Clinical Pharmacology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA)
Title: Dosing Algorithms for Tacrolimus in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing

#2
Ofelia Noceti (Centro Nacional de Tratamientos Hepatobiliopancreáticos, Unidad Docente Asistencial Centro Nacional Hepatobiliopancreático Servicio de Enfermedades Hepáticas, Hospital Central de las Fuerzas Armadas, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Title: Metabolomics as a tool for individualized healthcare

#3
Manuela Neuman (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
Title: Microbiome and Inflammasome in Gastrointestinal Diseases

#4
Ryuji Kato (Department of Pharmacotherapeutics and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Osaka, Japan)
Title: Damage associated molecular patterns as a predictive biomarker of drug induced liver injury

We welcome you to attend this symposium!

Topic: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and TDM

Click here for more details and to register now!

Congress website: iatdmct2024.org

Contact Us: info@iatdmct2024.org

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Co-editor: Manuela Neuman
Co-editor: Ryuji Kato
Co-editor: Miao Yan

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