Dear Presidents and Delegates,

It’s a real pleasure to get in touch with you all again throughout our monthly letter, this month with a little delay due to my business activities here in Latin America for my company and in Europe attending the Executive Committee Face to Face meeting in Barcelona.

Regarding this key meeting for the IFAPP Strategic Plan for the next 5 -10 years, I want to make some comments before Dr. Sander Becker final inform.

We discuss during 2 days about our Vision & Mission, the future relationship with regulatory Agencies and the Academic organizations, about the need to organize new working groups that improve our work and increase our visibility and other topics regarding finances, new nMAs, their role and cooperation with IFAPP. In the next month we will be distributed the list of new Working Groups proposal in order to allow you to join to us in our daily work as well as all the information about the future ways of IFAPP.

Remember that, since last December, you can visit the ICPM 2008 web page and make a registration, send an abstract, chose a hotel or tour and of course read all about The Netherlands, Amsterdam and the next ICPM.

The organizing committee of ICPM 2008 is very pleased to inform you that the printed versions of the 1st Announcements of ICPM 2008 are ready to distribute. Therefore we would like to know how many copies you need for your association/country and to which address we could send them. I very much appreciate your support to distribute the 1st Announcements in your country and hope to welcome a lot of your national colleagues in Amsterdam. Please remember that in order to get a successful ICPM 08 we need your strong co-operation.

As I said previously, it will be a good idea to remind your associates of ICPM 08 monthly through a brief note in the Monthly Bulletin or in the web page mentioning the title "Developing Pharmaceutical Care: Medicines after the Blockbuster Era", as well as the date: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 7 –10, 2008 (www.icpm2008.org).

As I mention every month, I invite you all to work with the EC both in regional and/or international tasks, in order to reach IFAPP’s objectives and get the recognition and visibility that we are looking for.

Finally don’t forget to visit periodically our web page and see the latest news and future activities.
 
Again, thanks a lot for your active participation in IFAPP’s activities.

Merry Easter’s Eve!

Until next month with best regards,

Dr. Luis Collia, FFPM
IFAPP President
Argentina
Ph: 54 11 4546 8130
Mb: 54 9 11 4940 5854

15th ICPM, 7 - 10 September 2008
www.icpm2008.org