| Thursday June 15 | 
| 08:00-08:40 | 
Registration and coffee | 
| 08:40-09:00 | 
Welcome and Introduction | 
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Oral session I | 
COSTB15 session (1) | 
chair: Leon Aarons | 
| 09:00-09:05 | 
Leon Aarons | 
Introduction: COSTB15 | 
| 09:05-09:25 | 
Mats Karlsson | 
A report on an expert meeting to discuss the role of modelling in Phase I clinical drug development | 
| 09:25-10:00 | 
David Giltinan | 
Population PK/PD Modeling in Drug Development: A Case Study | 
| 10:00-11:30 | 
Poster and software session I | 
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Oral session II | 
COSTB15 session (2) | 
chair: Rene Bruno | 
| 11:30-12:05 | 
Lewis Sheiner | 
Model Evaluation: Some Preliminary Experience with the Posterior Predictive Check | 
| 12:05-12:30 | 
France Mentre | 
Validation methods in population pharmacokinetics: a new approach based on predictive distributions with an evaluation by simulation | 
| 12:30-14:00 | 
Lunch | 
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Oral session III | 
Paediatrics/Clinical applications | 
chair: Tom Ludden | 
| 14:00-14:35 | 
Alison Thomson | 
Population pharmacokinetics in paediatric patients -- the good, the bad and the ugly | 
| 14:35-15:00 | 
Rik Schoemaker | 
In search of an optimal furosemide infusion strategy in children after cardiac surgery using modelling and simulation | 
| 15:00-15:20 | 
Iñaki f. Trocóniz | 
Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling of the antipyretic effect of two oral formulations of ibuprofen: suspension and effervescent granules | 
| 15:20-15:40 | 
Emmanuelle Comets | 
Evaluation of tests based on individual versus population modelling to compare dissolution curves | 
| 15:40-16:00 | 
Roberto Gomeni | 
Population pk/pd of craving symptoms in an enforced smoking cessation population: probabilistic and indirect modelling approach | 
| 16:00-17:00 | 
Poster and software session II | 
| 17:00-17:30 | 
Session honoring Alison Boeckmann | 
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Stuart Beal, Tom Ludden, Pascal Girard, Brigitte Tranchand | 
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| 20:30- open | 
Social event | 
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| Friday June 16 | 
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Tutorial | 
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chair: France Mentré | 
| 08:45-09:30 | 
Stuart Beal | 
Things you may have wanted to ask about the $ESTIMATION record but have been hesitant to ask | 
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Oral session IV | 
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chair: France Mentré | 
| 09:30-09:50 | 
Eugène Cox | 
Population pharmacodynamic model for count data: application to clinical trial simulations for compound PH2000 for the improvement of the number of satisfying events | 
| 09:50-10:10 | 
B. Vrijens | 
The impact of patient compliance in pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies | 
| 10:10-11:45 | 
Poster and software session III | 
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PAGE session | 
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chair: David Tudor | 
| 11:45-11:55 | 
David Tudor | 
Presentation of next year's PAGE meeting, miscellaneous information and call for new OC members | 
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Oral session V | 
Advances in population analysis | 
chair: David Tudor | 
| 11:55-12:25 | 
Paul Williams | 
The Application of Resampling Methods to Population Pharmacokinetics | 
| 12:25-12:55 | 
Didier Concordet | 
Checking departure from normality of the random effects | 
| 12:55-13:25 | 
Stephen Duffull | 
Optimal design of population pharmacodynamic experiments | 
| 13:25-13:45 | 
Sylvie Retout | 
Optimal population designs for enoxaparin pharmacokinetics: evaluation by simulation | 
| 13:45-14:00 | 
Closure followed by light lunch |