Mike Isles

Mike is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (www.asop.eu), a pan-European non-profit (Community Interest Company) patient safety organisation. Its mission is to enable patients to buy their medicines online safely – where it is legal to do so. ASOP EU collaborates closely with ASOP Global and its members and observers involve many key internet stakeholders. Its aim is to facilitate and campaign for new legislation as well as concrete voluntary actions that will make a real difference and ultimately benefit the health and safety of patients. Mike is also Executive Director of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (www.eaasm.eu), a pan-European non-profit patient safety organisation. The EAASM advocates for a robust harmonised EU regulatory framework to protect patients and guarantee the safety, quality and efficacy of innovative nanomedicines and nanosimilars. It campaigns for the exclusion of falsified and substandard medicines from the supply chain, the safer use of unlicensed/off-label medicines, as well as the adoption of medical, pharmacy and nursing practices combined with digital traceability solutions to eradicate medication errors.