Healthcare Professionals' Working Party

The Healthcare Professionals' Working Party (HCPWP) provides a platform for exchange of information and discussion of issues of common interest between the European Medicines Agency and healthcare professionals.

The HCPWP, established in 2013, has enabled the Agency to build upon its existing interactions with healthcare professionals. It provides recommendations to the EMA and its human scientific committees on all matters of interest in relation to medicines.

The following documents provide information on the HCPWP's responsibilities and composition:

Mandate, objectives and composition of the Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP)

Reference Number: EMA/109592/2018 Rev.3

Rules of procedure for the Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP)

Reference Number: EMA/109591/2018 Rev.2

2022-2025 Work plan for the Patients’ and Consumers’ Working Party (PCWP) and the Healthcare Professionals’ Working Party (HCPWP)

Reference Number: EMA/22769/2022

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Meetings

For information on upcoming and past meetings of the PCWP, including meeting materials, see:

• Healthcare Professionals' Working Party meetings

Composition

The HCPWP consists of:

• a core group of representatives from the eligible healthcare professionals' organisations;
• representatives from EMA's scientific committees;
• observers from:
  • the EMA Management Board;
  • the European Commission.
  • the Patients' and Consumers' Working Party;
  • the Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human.

The members' declarations of interests are available in the European experts list.

Co-chairs

Affiliation	Co-chairs
EMA	Juan Garcia Burgos
European Society of Cardiolgy	Piotr Szymanski

 

Organisation representative members

Member organisation	Representative(s)
European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)	Maria Torres  Mohamed Shamji
European Academy of Neurology (EAN)	Sonja Hochmeister  Bettina Balint
European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP)	Karel Allegaert Ann de Guchtenaere
European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)	Marta Mosca  Elena Nikiphorou
European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)	Chantal Mathieu  Jean-François Gautier
European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP)	Piera Polidori Despina Makridaki
European Association of Urology (EAU)	Anders Bjartell               Vasileios Sakalis
European Federation of internal Medicine (EFIM)	Teun van Gelder
European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC)	Elena Petelos Walter Marrocco
European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS)	Wilma Knol Adalsteinn Gudmundsson
European Hematology Association (EHA)	Martin Kaiser  Robin Doeswijk
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)	Denis Lacombe  Vassilis Golfinopoulos
European Psychiatric Association (EPA)	Andrea Fiorillo  Simone De Ioanna
European Respiratory Society (ERS)	Alexander G. Mathioudakis  Susanne J. Vijverberg
European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)	Dario Trapani  Elisabeth (Emma) de Vries
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)	Piotr Szymanski  Maciej Kostrubiec
European Society of Endocrinology (ESE)	Martin Fassnacht  Frederic Castinetti
European Society of Radiology (ESR)	Olivier Clément Ferdia Gallagher
European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ESNO)	Corinne Scicluna Panagiota Tsikala
Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU)	Jorge Batista Ilaria Passarani
Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)	Diogo Teixeira Pereira  Christiaan Keijzer
The European Alliance for Vision Research and Ophthalmology (EU EYE)	Mario Romano Marta Pazos
United European Gastroenterology (UEG)	Ana Dugic  Coskun Demirtas
European Union of General Practitioners (UEMO)	Catarina Matias Hermenegildo Marcos Carrera
Wonca	Mehmet Ungan  Shlomo Vinker

 

Members representing EMA scientific committees

EMA Scientific Committee	Representative(s)
Committee for Advanced Therapies	Alessandro Aiuti  Federica Chiara
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use	Fàtima Ventura
Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products	Elisabeth Johanne Rook
Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products	Olga Maria Palomino  An Le
Paediatric Committee	Johannes Taminiau  Eleni Katsomiti
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee	Roberto Frontini

 

Observers

Affiliation	Representative(s)
EMA Management Board	Denis Lacombe
Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (alternating)	Angela Bradshaw  Kaisa Immonen
European Commission (DG SANTE)	Rotating membership
Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh)	Jitka Vokrouhlická Nina Malvik