26th EAHP CONGRESS 2022

It is a great pleasure and a humbling honour to invite you all to the 2022 EAHP Annual Congress. While these unprecedented times have turned our world upside down, our profession has prevailed and hospital pharmacists have never ceased to proactively adapt to a changing world in order to continuously serve our patients best interests. Fortunately, EAHP has proved resilient during this period and continued to work hard for the upcoming EAHP 2022 Congress undaunted by the challenges our Association has to face. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna, on March 23rd, 2022 when spring will, hopefully, be already shining its heart-warming light on the Danube Valley.

Vienna is one of the most charming, elegant, history-rich and yet excitingly cosmopolitan cities in Europe. Embracing its historic roots it offers everything one could expect for a modern cosy city life. This gorgeous city of immense cultural heritage will be our host, providing an impressive background to our Congress.

Spring, being the season of awakening, a period when nature applauds life with colourful diversity, I firmly believe that all of us will gather to celebrate the opportunity to meet up in person again and to commemorate all the loss the pandemic made us endure. This new beginning will also bring about a vast of novel scientific and practical knowledge upon which we can further develop and strengthen our services for our patients in Europe and beyond. Therapeutic possibilities are growing rapidly in several disease groups, including those for which treatment options have been seriously limited for many decades. These emerging therapeutic modalities have brought about many challenges for hospital pharmacists and they keep changing the way pharmacy services are delivered. Hospital pharmacists have to acquire more knowledge related to immunology, infection control, the human genome, cell regulation and much more. Besides these novel therapeutic areas, our emerging competencies of frontline patient care in the clinical setting call for new and changing roles of our profession. These "high tech" modalities, going hand-in-hand with the irreplaceable personal touch of pharmaceutical care are paving the way towards the future of our profession.

Besides the professional and methodological challenges, healthcare systems all over the world have to find a way to employ these new possibilities with the limited resources that are available. That rather complex issue calls for a deep involvement and input from hospital pharmacists as well. I am sure that the scientific programme at the Congress will help all of us to face these challenges and find valid answers.

Furthermore, your time with us in Vienna is also going to be an ideal opportunity to meet your fellow colleagues, exchange experience and knowledge and to find new professional connections and friends.

Programme Available Online here

Registration Available Online here