Time

Topic

0:10

Please provide a brief overview of your career and current position.

Professor and Director/Founder of Global Medicine Program at University of Washington

0:48

When did you first get involved with pharmacoepi?

Dissertation research linking pharmacy and medical utilization records

2:15

Group Health Cooperative

3:04

Please tell us about the early years of ISPE

3:56

How many people were involved with ISPE at the time?

4:15

Less than one hundred… three pillars… consulting groups

5:15

How did you go about figuring out the structure of ISPE?

6:24

What considerations went into the creation of the by-laws?

Evidence-based, transparency, fairness

7:57

What have been your roles at ISPE?

Elected leader (VP), Board Member, advocate in academic circles

9:08

Were you also president?

9:55

VP under Hugh Tilson

10:38

Do you have any anecdotes to share about Rudy or Hugh?

Bilingual opening address at Berlin meeting

12:05

How has the field of pharmacoepi changed over the years, and did ISPE play a part?

Quality of the science, large linked databases, surveillance activities

13:00

Evidence-based decision-making for important public health questions-

14:44

Do you think ISPE had a great impact on the field?

Comes down to people - strong leaders and mentors - yes

15:30

Hugh Tilson - personal impact on career

16:04

Can you tell us more about the Burrows Wellcome Scholars?

Initiative in conjunction with American Society of Preventive Medicine

17:00

Enabled career move to U. Washington

17:36

How else has ISPE impacted you, personally or professionally?

Seeing the world with family

18:45

Networking, presentation, research; opportunity to work with IOM in policymaking

20:41

What has been your greatest contribution to pharmacoepi?

Study - selective screening for chlamydia in young women

22:27

PE work in low- and middle-income countries (Gates Foundation)

25:18

What are your fondest memories of the ISPE meetings?

Working with Stan Edlavitch and Brian Strom

25:55

Liz Andrews- PhD work

26:39

Social aspects

27:06

What wisdom would you like to pass on to future leaders and members of ISPE?

Maintain sense of intimacy with programming