The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) has its origins in a working party established under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO-Europe) in the early 1980s.
The group was chaired by Prof. Folke Sjöqvist of Sweden, and included representatives from around ten European countries. Over the years, the working party produced a number of influential publications on the organisation of Clinical Pharmacology, the teaching of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT), and key issues such as the involvement of primary care in clinical pharmacology.
In the early 1990s, some members of this group met in Verona, Italy, to discuss the creation of a Europe-wide body that would promote clinical pharmacology and therapeutics across the continent. These discussions laid the foundations for what would later become the EACPT.