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 Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Gonzalo Calvo |
Organisation representative members
Members representing EMA scientific committees
| EMA Scientific Committee | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| Committee for Advanced Therapies |
Bernd Gansbacher Erik Briers |
| Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use | Fatima Ventura |
| Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products | Katerina Kubackova |
| Committee for Herbal Medicinal Products |
Steinar Madsen Steffen Bager |
| Francesca Rocchi | |
|
Raymond Anderson Kirsten Myhr |
Observers
| Affiliation | Representative(s) |
|---|---|
| EMA Management Board | Wolf-Dieter Ludwig |
| Patients' and Consumers' Working Party |
Jose Drabwell Rafal Swierzewski Hildrun Sundseth Aikaterini Apostolidou |
| European Commission (DG SANTE) | Rotating membership |