Today in Geneva, EACPT Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Professor Carlo Patrono and to Professor Sir Michael Rawlins for their outstanding contributions to the national and international benefits of clinical pharmacology for medicine, health care and patient safety.

Sir Michael Rawlins and Carlo Patrono

These Awards, including the EACPT silver medal, were presented at an Awards Ceremony the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva, 28th – 31st August 2013 by EACPT co-founder Professor Folke Sjöqvist, and by Dr Marie Besson, co-leader of the 2011 EACPT Congress.…

We are delighted to announce that the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics will go jointly to Professor Sir Michael Rawlins and to Professor Carlo Patrono, for their outstanding contributions to the national and international benefits of clinical pharmacology for medicine, health care and patient safety.

These Awards, including the EACPT silver medal, will be presented during the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva, 28th – 31st August 2013. 

Professor Sir Michael Rawlins

Michael Rawlins was from 1999-2013 the first chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and from 1998-2008, Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.…