Americas Issues Meeting Information Session Brief

8th GHTF Conference - Ottawa, Canada

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Title:	Americas Issues Meeting
Time:	Wednesday, 20 September 8:30 AM - 12 Noon
Convenor:	Antonio Hernandez Regional Advisor Health Services Engineering and Maintenance Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) Tel: (202) 974-3276 e-mail: 1hernana@paho.org
Topic:	This meeting is intended to update GHTF members on recent developments in medical device regulation within the Region of the Americas (Latin American and Caribbean countries). In addition to presentations from PAHO regarding their activities since the last GHTF Conference and their plans to foster better medical device control in these countries, the meeting will also include updates from individual country regulatory representatives and a presentation from a World Health Organization (WHO) representative about how that organization is promoting the development of the medical devices field. This meeting will benefit regulatory and industry personnel with an interest in these what is going on in the Region of the Americas.
Speakers:	Mr. Antonio Hernandez Regional Advisor, Health Services Engineering and Maintenance PAHO
	Mr. Gerald Verollet Manager, Devices and Clinical Technology Section WHO
	Speakers, TBA Regulatory Authorities of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Trinidad and Tobago
Attachments:	Medical Devices; CD42/12 (English version) Note: Spanish, French and Portuguese versions of the document will be available in the meeting room.

Updated 22 July 2004