levy saiddr permar said she hoped the pandemic brings a change in how vaccines are evaluated during an emergencywe need to think of a different way to approach including kids and pregnant women in trials earlier she said and we need to be doing that now because the next pandemic is going to be upon us before we want it to be groups to agree with them on every issue we work with many organizations with which we have disagreements on public policy issues including on prescription medicine costs but believe engagement and dialogue are critical she said murphy said she had learned an indelible lesson about the need for a strong patientdoctor relationship while still in medical schoolscholarship alone was not enough she said at the irish america award ceremony an example if we had a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and we shook their hands and they winced it didnt matter how much we knew about the disease or how to treat it wed failed our exam because we hadnt taken the patients overall wellbeing into consideration