CURRENT CONFERENCE
15th CVG ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITIONS (2009)

“Expand your Horizon in a Challenging Time” 

October 5, 2009 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Double Tree International Plaza Hotel, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto
Tel: 416-244-1711,
Conference Program

Introduction and Start of Program 8:40AM - 8:45AM
Opening Remarks Herman Lam, Ph.D. 8:45AM - 8:50PM
Key Note Address:
Biomarkers (Not Posted)

Michael Siu, Ph.D.
York University

8:50AM - 9:35AM
GMP on Natural Health Products

Raymond Tsang
Health Canada

9:35AM - 10:20AM
Morning Break   10:20AM - 10:50AM
USP Compendial Updates Behnam Davani, Ph.D., USP 10:50AM - 11:25AM

High Resolution and Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Vince Taguchi, Ph.D. Ministry of Environment 11:25AM - 12:00PM
Lunch Break 12:00PM - 2:00PM
 
October 5 2009: Parallel Discussion Sessions  (2:PM to 5 PM) 

      Session 1: Analytical Sciences        
Chair: Herman Lam,Ph.D. 

Survive and Thrive during Challenging Times by Harnessing the Power of Sub-2um Particles Christine Hand, Ph.D.
Waters
Recent advances in elemental analysis Jeff Bown
ThermoScientific
Break 

Applications of Dielectric Constant Spectroscopy to Pharmaceuticals

Hitoshi Masui, Ph.D. 
Prollennium

Laser diffraction - the particle sizing workhorse of the pharmaceutical industry

Alan Rawle Ph.D. Malvern Instruments Inc. 

Accelerating Biomarker Assay Development to Validation: Use of Real Time Immunoassay (Not Posted) Paul Smith 
Axela

Session 2: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Regulatory 
Chair: Elaine Vandenberg, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc.

 Use of material science in pharmaceutical development (Not Posted)

Kwok Chow, Ph.D.
Patheon

Application of Raman Spectroscopy for Pharmaceutical Raw Material Identification (Not Posted)

Krystyna Poblocka, Ph.D.
Novopharm

Break  
Economic downturn - how does it affect pharmaceutical industry and you?

YC,. Lee, Ph.D.
XPhase Pharma

Certification of pharmaceutics reference standards

John Tobin. Ph.D.
Acanthus Research

How Identification of Impurity Can Help to Achieve Optimal Stability of Drug Products (Not Posted)

Milica Jovanovic
MJ Pharma

Program Committee
Herman Lam, Ph.D., Wild Crane Horizon. (Chair)
William Ng, Purdue Pharma
Tony Cheung, Purdue Pharma
Elaine Vandenberg, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc.
CVG Executive Board
Herman Lam, Ph.D.
Chung Chow Chan, Ph.D.
YC Lee, Ph.D.
Xue-Ming Zhang, Ph.D.
Katherine Yang, Ph.D.
David Mayers, 
Gabriel Lam
Wei Garofolo
William Ng
Tony Cheung
Yu-Hong Tse, Ph.D.
Fabio Garofolo, Ph.D.

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