Innovation Theatre: BPS Assessment Innovation Session
| Thursday, July 16, 2026 |
| 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
Details
The BPS Assessment Innovations Session is an open forum for all registrants to discuss design and implementation of large scale student or early practitioner prescribing competency assessments. BPSA team will showcase the implementation of the Prescribing Safety Assessment across medical schools and post-graduate early years with colleagues from Japan, Australia and UK. This session will also explore new features of the assessment platform and how these may be applicable to your prescribing context.
Speaker
Mr Peter Wright
Head Of Commercial Operations
Bps Assessment
Presenter
Biography
Peter leads on product development for BPS Assessment, the eLearning and Assessment arm of the British Pharmacological Society. Managing the replatforming of the Society's Prescribing Safety Assessment exam delivery system, he has overseen its development into a wider prescribing education tool. Working with academic partners from the University of Manchester, he developed the EPS Simulator, a high-fidelity prescribing learning environment. He leads the technical delivery of the national Prescribing Safety Assessment in the UK.
Prof Simon Maxwell
BPS
Presenter
Biography
Simon Maxwell is Professor of Student Learning/Clinical Pharmacology and Prescribing at the University of Edinburgh, where he has led in developing e-Learning strategies to support education in this area. He is also the Director of the University’s Masters in Internal Medicine programme. His clinical responsibilities include supervision of acute medical admissions and the management of outpatients at increased cardiovascular risk. He was formerly Vice-President of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) and is a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in London and Edinburgh and of the Higher Education Academy. He led the development of and is Medical Director of the Prescribing Safety Assessment, a joint initiative by the BPS and Medical Schools Council delivering a national assessment of prescribing for all UK medical students. This process has now been adopted in several other countries. He is co-lead for the Pharmacology Education Project (PEP), an IUPHAR initiative to provide freely accessible learning materials for students of the pharmacological sciences in resource-poor countries.
Prof Shinichiro Ueda
Professor
University Of The Ryukyus
Presenter
Biography
Professor of the MEXT program for clinical research
University of the Ryukyu Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine
Prof Sarah Hilmer
Royal North Shore Hospital & The University of Sydney
Presenter
Biography
Sarah Hilmer (BScMed(Hons) MBBS(Hons) FRACP PhD) is the head of the department of Clinical Pharmacology and a senior staff specialist in Aged Care at Royal North Shore Hospital. She is Conjoint Professor of Geriatric Pharmacology at The University of Sydney. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Scientists (FAHMS) and was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to clinical and geriatric pharmacology in 2022. Hilmer’s translational research program in Ageing and Pharmacology at the Kolling Institute includes basic, clinical and population studies to understand the effects of medications and of deprescribing in ageing and frailty.
Sarah is chair of the IUPHAR Clinical and Translational Section and also Chairs its Geriatric Pharmacology Committee.