Friday's closed meeting on reordering British Columbia's drug approval process was only for “stakeholders”, the majority of whom are in the business of making or selling drugs.
A health ministry spokesperson provided a list of the organizations that were represented at the meeting. It shows 31 of the organizations were directly from the drug industry, seven were from pharmacies and two were from insurance companies. The rest of the attendees were from patient groups, the University of B.C., the B.C. Medical Association and the health ministry.
Media requests to attend the meeting were refused, as was that of NDP health critic Adrian Dix, who said ministry officials have promised to brief him later.
While the government's list of attendees did not name the individuals representing the various organizations, the Tyee obtained the complete list from another source. What follows is the list provided by the government, with the names of representatives added where possible:
Abbott Canada: Kevin Harrington
Accel Pharma Inc.
Alcon Canada: Rav Gill, Beth Witney
Amgen Canada: Jim Favaro
Apotex Inc.: Karen Sullivan, Elie Betito
Arthritis Consumer Experts: Quincey Kirschner, Jay Fiddler
AstraZeneca Canada: Leslie Foord
Bayer Inc.: Shiera Stuart
Better Pharmacare Coalition: Pamela Gole, Cheryl Koehn
BIOTECanada
Boehringer Ingelheim Canada Ltd.: Danny L'Abbe
Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada: Tami Crawley
British Columbia Lung Association: Kelly Ablog-Morrant
British Columbia Medical Association
British Columbia Pharmacy Association: Marnie Mitchell, Lynda Lytle
Brogan Inc.
Canada Health Coalition: Colleen Fuller
Canada Safeway Ltd.: Darcy Stann
Canada's Research Based Pharmaceutical Companies: Sharon McKinnon
Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance: Colleen Maloney
Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores: Jim Waters
Canadian Association of Pharmacy Distribution Management: David Johnston, Derek Desrosiers (Unipharm)
Canadian Diabetes Association: Jean Blake, Karen Philp
Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association: Dean Crawford, Jim Keon
Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc.: Irene Klatt
Canadian Society of Intestinal Research
Cobalt Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Jane Farnham-Verway, Ray Haymour
College of Pharmacists of B.C.: Suzanne Solven, Marshall Moleschi
Eli Lilly Canada Inc.: Hal Stovall
GenPharm ULC: Ian Hilley, Mark Mantel
Generic Partnerships
GlaxoSmithKline Inc.: Peter Simpson, John Kelly
Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.: Lydia Lanman, Stephen Filbey
Janssen-Ortho Inc.: Jo-Ann Stuart Chatterley, Brent Korte
Kidney Foundation of Canada: Lorraine Ferard
LifeSciences British Columbia: Karimah Es Sabar, Simon Pimstone (Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.), David Hall (Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
London Drugs: Jim Rama, John Tse
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.: Norma Sebestyen, Stelios Azoudis
Mint Pharmaceuticals Inc.: Rhonda Dorren, Ian Grantham
Mood Disorders Association of British Columbia: Rennie Hoffman
MS Society of Canada: Janet Palm
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.: Geoff Squires, Kyle Steiger
Novopharm Ltd.: Menno Froese, Terry Creighton
Pacific Blue Cross: Leza Muir
Parkinson Society British Columbia: Diane Robinson
P&G Pharmaceuticals Canada: Martin Cho
Pharmascience Inc.: Jeremy Ferdinands, Neil Goodbrand
ratiopharm Canada: Andrew van der Gugten
Rx Canada: Wendy Nelson
Sandoz Canada Inc.: Leonor Ferreira
sanofi-aventis Canada Inc.: Dan Kennedy
Shoppers Drug Mart: Bill Bright
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine: Colin Dormuth, Ken Bassett
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Robert Sindelar, James McCormack
Wyeth Canada: John Warrington
Ministry of Health Services: Gordon Macatee, Michael MacDougall, Craig Knight, Bab Nakagawa, Paul Gudaitis, Eric Lun, David Morel, Dan Doyle, Joanna Richards, Pam Scott, Woody Turnquist, Vivian Ip.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria. Reach him here.
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