P&HT Sponsored Events

SLA Annual Meeting 2004
Nashville, TN 
June 5-10, 2004

Monday June 7, 2004
Tuesday June 8, 2004
Wednesday June 9, 2004

Monday June 7, 2003

12:15 p.m. - 1: 30 p.m.
Internal Marketing
In this session, information professionals from a corporate pharmaceutical library will discuss lessons learned in their creation and implementation of a marketing plan. Primary focus will be on applying new approaches for improving teamwork and communication skills to enable effective marketing.
Speakers: Sandra Stauffer (Eli Lilly), Laura Zick (Eli Lilly)

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Expanding Relationships: Reaching Out to Research (Lyon)
Expanding Relationships: Reaching Out to Research (Leyva)
Hear how information professionals focusing on providing services to research scientists have successfully promoted their services to this particular customer group by taking time to get to know the true information needs of their customers and to tailor their services in order to best meet those needs.
Speakers: Jennifer Lyon (Vanderbilt University), Christine Leyva (Eisai)

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Hot Topics in Records Management
The director of a records management function at a large pharmaceutical company, and a consultant working in support of this function, will discuss paradigm shifts, the impact of technology on the profession, and what they feel lies on the horizon for those working records management.
Speakers: Sylvia Dias (BMS), Steve Gens (Booz Allen)

Tuesday June 8, 2003

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Vendor Update: Biomedical Collections  CAS Dialog Ebsco Ovid
Hear from major providers of scientific information about recent enhancements added to their full-text offerings and about their plans for further development in 2004/5.
CAS, Dialog, Ebsco, Ovid

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Breaking New Ground: Information Strategies for Combination Products (Rosenberg)
Breaking New Ground: Information Strategies for Combination Products (White)
Hear from two industry experts and learn their 'tricks & tips' for finding pertinent information in support of customers developing and/or marketing combination products.
Speakers: Barbra Rosenberg (PAREXEL), Beth White (Ethicon)

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Negotiating with Vendors
The managers of external content from two large pharmaceutical companies will discuss negotiating access to external content across sites, across continents and across cultures. Come and pick up tips on maximising your budget, on getting the most from your vendors and on creative ways to bring new resources in house.
Speakers: Julia Urwin (AstraZeneca), Wendy Hamilton (Abbott)

Wednesday June 9, 2003

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Biomedical Literature Full Text: Enabling Research: The HighWire Portal Toolset
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text science articles in the world. Come and learn about HighWire Press and how to improve your searching of the biomedical literature.
Speaker: Bonnie Zavon (Highwire)

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Biomedical Literature Full Text: Mining the Biomedical Literature
This talk will focus on four types of text mining that are prevalent in bioinformatics today: -document retrieval, -information extraction, -interpretation assignment, - similarity measures.
Speaker: Marc Light (Ohio State University)

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. 
Healthcare Consulting: The Three-Week Need (Breton)
Two information professionals based within consulting firms, one within a small boutique firm, the other from a 'big four' will discuss ways in which they use pharmaceutical information resources to support the work of their organisations.
Speakers: Tara Breton (Health Advances LLC), Andrea Thompson (Ernst & Young)

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