FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUGS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (AIDAC) MEETING

 

 AGENDA

March 4, 2003

 

Marriott Washingtonian Center, Grand Ballroom, 9751 Washingtonian Blvd., Gaithersburg, MD

                                               

NDA 21-158, Factive® (gemifloxacin) Tablets, Parexel International, U.S. Agent for LG LifeSciences, Ltd., proposed for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis

 

 

8:00 a.m.           Call to Order                                                                 James E.  Leggett, Jr., M.D.

Acting Chair, AIDAC

                        Introduction of Committee

 

            Conflict of Interest Statement                                         Tara P. Turner, Pharm.D.

                                                                                                            Executive Secretary, AIDAC

 

8:10 a.m.           Opening Remarks                                                      Renata Albrecht, M.D.                                                                                                                          Director

                                                                                                            Division of Special Pathogen and

Immunologic Drug Products, FDA

 

8:20 a.m.           Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions                                     Michael Bigby, M.D.

                                                                                                            Assistant Professor of Dermatology

                                                                                                            Harvard Medical School

 

8:50 a.m.           Antimicrobial Resistance in                                       John H. Powers, M.D.

                        Streptococcus pneumoniae                                          Lead Medical Officer for

                                                Antimicrobial Drug Development

                                                                                                            Office of Drug Evaluation IV, FDA

9:20 a.m.           Break 

                                                                                                           

9:30 a.m.           Sponsor Presentation                                                 Parexel International,

US Agent for LG Life Sciences Ltd.

 

                        Introduction                                                                   Gary Patou, M.D.

                                                                                                            President, GeneSoft Pharmaceuticals

 

                        Unmet Medical Need                                                    Donald E. Low, M.D.

                                                                                                            Professor, Microbiology and Medicine

                                                                                                            University of Toronto

 

                        Efficacy                                                                        Lionel A. Mandell, M.D.

                                                                                                            Professor of Medicine

                                                                                                            Chief of Infectious Diseases

                                                                                                            McMaster University

 

                       

 

 

 

Safety                                                                           Gary Patou, M.D.

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                            Neil H. Shear, M.D.

                                                                                                            Professor and Chief of Dermatology

                                                                                                            University of Toronto

 

                        Benefit/Risk and Risk Management                                Gary Patou, M.D.                                                                     

11:00 a.m.         Questions and Answers

 

11:10 a.m.         Break

 

11:20 a.m.         FDA Presentation                                          

 

Microbiology                                                                 Peter Dionne

                                                                                    Microbiologist

                                                                                                            Division of Special Pathogen and

                                                                                                            Immunologic Drug Products, FDA

 

Community-Acquired Pneumonia                                   Regina Alivisatos, MD.

                                                                                                            Medical Officer

                                                                                                            Division of Special Pathogen and

                                                                                                            Immunologic Drug Products, FDA

                                                                                                           

                        Acute Bacterial Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchitis        Eileen Navarro, M.D.

                                                                                                            Medical Officer

                                                                                                            Division of Special Pathogen and

                                                                                                            Immunologic Drug Products, FDA

 

                        Safety                                                                           Maureen Tierney, M.D., M.Sc.

                                                                                                            Medical Officer

                                                                                                            Division of Special Pathogen and                                                                                                                        Immunologic Drug Products, FDA

 

12:30 p.m.         Questions and Answers

           

12:40 p.m.         Lunch                          

 

1:40 p.m.           Open Public Hearing

                                               

                                                           

2:00 p.m.           Charge to the Committee                                               Mark Goldberger, M.D., M.P.H.

                                                                                                            Director

                                                                                                            Office of Drug Evaluation IV, FDA

                                                                                                           

2:10 p.m.           Committee Discussion

 

3:20 p.m.           Break

 

3:30 p.m.           Continued Discussion and Vote

 

5:00 p.m.           Adjourn