Gustavo Kesselring, MD, IFAPP Academy Vice President & International Affairs, IFAPP, has been appointed CIOMS Executive Committee Member on behalf of IFAPP as of 18 December 2019. As well known, CIOMS (Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences) is a non-profit organization associated with UNESCO and WHO. The CIOMS mission is to advance public health through guidance on health research including ethics, medical product development, and safety. More information about CIOMS is available at www.cioms.ch.

“This is a great honor and a valuable recognition of the global effort IFAPP & IFAPP Academy have been doing in the past years engaging several stakeholders in competency-based education and training in Medicines Development and Pharmaceutical Medicine. By no means, this achievement would have been possible without the teamwork and great contributions done by many colleagues working in academia, pharmaceutical companies, regulatory agencies, and government”, underlined Dr. Kesselring.
Gustavo Kesselring, MD, IFAPP Academy Vice President & International Affairs