Brian Strom

An interview with Brian Storm, MD, MPH, FISPE

Time

Topic

0:11

Please provide a brief overview of your career and current position

0:37

How did you get started with pharmacoepi?

1:00

Clinical pharmacology rotation, then summer research at Johns Hopkins

3:40

MPH at Berkeley

5:23

Please tell us about the early years of ISPE

6:02

How did you get involved with the first ICPE meetings?

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Through FDA contacts- Judith Jones, Stan Edlavitch

6:50

Can you please tell us about the early years of ISPE?

7:40

Aimed to add some academia to the format and content

8:30

Was there a debate about during ISPE into a society?

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Societies create silos, but ISPE created a common place for the discipline

10:04

What improvement would you suggest for ISPE?

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Continue to balance academic influence with industry

11:15

Mitigate divisions between clinical pharmacologists and epidemiologists

14:42

Can you please tell us about the development of the Journal- Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (PDS)

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Outset- not very selective

16:00

Adding Asian editor, becoming more selective

17:17

What has been the impact of the journal on the field?

18:35

Has become primary journal in the field

20:30

Aiming for more policy, impact papers

21:45

Do you have any other comments about PDS or Ron Mann you would like to share?

22:22

Can you comment on the genesis and impact of the textbook- Pharmacoepidemiology?

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Written during sabbatical in Sweden

25:00

Continual revision of book, adding textbook version

26:43-

Tell us about your roles during the early years of ISPE and the transition to a professional management organization

27:40

Change to a professional management organization

28:40

Activist mindset

29:30

Certificate program at Penn to teach FDA about PE

32:15

How has ISPE impacted you professionally and personally?

33:15

Getting people to work together- academic disciplines, three pillars

35:00

Fostering careers of junior people

37:14

Do other organizations have a regulatory component?

38:34

What do you feel is ISPE’s greatest impact on the field?

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Getting people to talk, interact, and the three pillars to respect one another

41:55

What are your fondest memories of the ISPE meetings?

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Hugh Tilson- sense of humor

43:03

Focusing on current controversies

44:55

Social events

45:23

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

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Focus on the research question

47:10

Mentoring junior people

47:40

Avoid silos

With support from Epi Excellence LLC.

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