Investigative Reporter Katherine Eban Featured Speaker at NABP's Fall Educational Conference

October 3, 2005 12:00 AM

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) is pleased to announce that Investigative Reporter Katherine Eban is the featured speaker at the Association's Fall Educational Conference. Eban, who published her book Dangerous Doses about counterfeit medications will speak during the first continuing education session "Suspect Medicine: Is This Drug Counterfeit? A Day in the Life of a Counterfeit Drug," on Friday, December 2 from 8-9 AM at the Trump Sonesta Hotel in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

This session will provide an overview of various complex counterfeiting scandals that have prompted the enactment of some of the most state specific stringent wholesale distribution legislation. Participants will be exposed to investigative findings that have highlighted and unveiled the convoluted routes of counterfeit and diverted products.

Ms Eban is also a Rhodes Scholar who has worked for the New York Times, New York, the New York Observer, and ABC News. Eban's articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair, the Nation, Playboy, the New Yorker, Self, Vogue, Glamour, and the New Republic. Her work has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other national news programs.

Dangerous Doses is Ms Eban's first book; it was excerpted in the May 2005 issue of Vanity Fair and has been chosen as one of Barnes & Noble's "Discover Great New Writers" selections for fall 2005. The book was also a "Borders Recommends" book for July 2005. While in progress, Dangerous Doses received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

According to the book's synopsis, ". . . Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system — where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness." Attendees of this session will receive one continuing education credit hour. There will also be a question and answer session following the session.

For more information about the Fall Educational Conference, please contact the NABP Meetings Desk at 847/391-4406 or e-mail custserv@nabp.net. Information, the program, and registration forms are also available on NABP's Web site at www.nabp.net.

Renee Renganathan