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:
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 members' declarations of interests are available in the European experts list.
Co-chairs
| Affiliation | Co-chairs |
|---|---|
| EMA | Juan Garcia Burgos |
| European Hematology Association (EHA) | Ulrich Jäger |
Organisation representative members
Members representing EMA scientific committees
| EMA Scientific Committee | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| Committee for Advanced Therapies | Bernd Gansbacher |
| Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use | Fatima Ventura Maria Conception Prieto Yerro |
| Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products | Dinah Duarte |
| Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products | Steffen Bager Gert Laekeman; An Le |
| Paediatric Committee | Johannes Taminiau Dimitrios Athanasiou |
| Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee | Raymond Anderson |
Observers
| Affiliation | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| EMA Management Board | Wolf-Dieter Ludwig |
| Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (alternating) | Aikaterini Apostolidou Marilena Vrana |
| European Commission (DG SANTE) | Rotating membership |
| Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human (CMDh) | Gabriele Eibenstein |