ACDM Medical Terminology, Basics of Human Physiology and Pharmacology

Designed for data managers to increase their understanding of the clinical data they're managing

Outline

Physiology
How the body works

• The Cell
• Major Organ Systems
• Nervous System - Sympathetic and parasympathetic
• Blood
• Respiration
• Nutrition and Digestion
• Cardiovascular
• Liver Function
• Renal Function
• Communication between cells

Pharmacology

• How the body works on drugs - pharmacokinetics
• eliminatio, bioavailability
• How drugs work on the body - pharmacodynamics
• agonist/antagonists
• receptor types

Medical Terminology

• how medical terms are structured
• prefix - route - suffix
• eg. endo-, ecto-, myo-, haem-, cardio-, gast-, -itis, -osis, -ia

Webinar Details:
Date: Friday 9 March 2012
Time: 12:00 – 13:30 GMT
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: MeetingZone
Instructor: Cliona O’Donovan

Instructor Profile
Cliona O’Donovan gained her first degree in Pharmacology, and has a Masters in Epidemiology. She has over 18 year’s data management experience in clinical trials, and in handling data across all phases of clinical research and across many therapeutic areas.

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