New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council

Members of CEPAC will convene on Friday, June 1, 2012 in Durham, New Hampshire (meeting details here) to deliberate and vote on the evidence of the clinical effectiveness and comparative value of treatment options for pre-schoolers and school-aged children with ADHD.  The draft report includes supplementary analyses to augment the review “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long-term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment” produced by AHRQ. To submit a public comment on the draft report, visit here.

CEPAC was featured in the April issue of Connecticut Medicine.  The article features commentary from several current and former CEPAC members, including Michael Deren, Claudia Gruss, Ellen Andrews and Rick Lopez.

The key questions for deliberation  for the June 2012 CEPAC meeting on ADHD are now available.

Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting must register by May 29, 2012 by visiting Meeting Registration; those wishing to submit written comments ahead of time, and those requesting the opportunity to make public comments at the meeting, can visit Reports.

ICER has announced the new members of the 2012 New England CEPAC.  The 19 members of CEPAC represent a wide variety of backgrounds, specialties and perspectives, and come from all six New England states.  CEPAC consists of practicing physicians and methodologists with experience in evaluating and using evidence in the practice of healthcare, as well as patient/public members with experience in health policy, patient advocacy and public health. Representatives of state health programs and of regional private payers are included as ex-officio members of CEPAC.  A full list of the 2012 CEPAC members, with brief biographies, is available here.

ICER today announced that the next public meeting of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council (CEPAC) will be held Friday, June 1, 2012 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH.  The topic of this meeting will be treatment options for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  CEPAC members, drawn from clinical and public policy experts from all six New England states, will discuss the findings of the review on this topic produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), supplemented with additional analyses and information provided by ICER.  The meeting materials will be available online for public comment beginning May 11, 2012.

Date:          Friday, June 1, 2012
Time:         10:00 AM – 4:00PM ET
Location:   University of New Hampshire
Holloway Commons, 1st floor
Squamscott Room
75 Main Street
Durham, NH 03824

Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting must register by May 29, 2012 by visiting Meeting Registration; those wishing to submit written comments ahead of time, and those requesting the opportunity to make public comments at the meeting, can visit Reports.