MEETINGS
- SLA ANNUAL CONFERNCE
2009
SLA Annual Conference, Washington, DC
June 14-18, 2009
PHTD Washington 2009 Program Outline
download the PHTD Program brochure
Saturday, June 13
1:00pm - 5:00pm
CE Course: Publish or Perish: Producing Fabulous e-Newsletters
Sponsor: FOI Services
Presented by Mary Ellen Bates, President and Founder, Bates Information
Services
7:00pm on
Division No-Host Dinner
Please email Patrice Costa at pcosta@nejm.org if you plan on joining
us
Sunday, June 14
8:00am - 12:00pm
CE Course: Dangerous Documents: Communication in Regulated Industries
Sponsor: FOI Services
Presented by Nancy Singer, Compliance-Alliance LLC (http://www.compliance-alliance.com)
1:00pm - 5:00pm
CE Course: FDA and Clinical Trials: Inspections, Investigations,
Submissions
Sponsor: FOI Services
Presented by Marlene Bobka, Vice-President, FOI Services, Inc.; Mark
Elengold, President, FDA Strategies, LLC
Monday, June 15
7:00am - 8:30am
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Networking Breakfast
Sponsored by MarketResearch.com
9:00am - 10:30am
Expert Databases: Leveraging for Success
Sponsored by Timely Data Resources
Moderated by: Gayle Lynn-Nelson, Senior Librarian Relations Consultant,
LexisNexis
Speaker(s): Monica Ertel, Director of Global Information
Services, Bain & Co., San Francisco, CA; Catherine Monte, Chief Knowledge
Officer, Fox Rothschilda; Medha Devare, Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
Librarian, Albert R. Mann
Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Presented With: Knowledge Management Division (Lead), Competitive Intelligence
Division
Open Access Mandates: From the Front Lines
Sponsored by Swets
Speaker(s): Neil M. Thakur, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the Deputy Director
for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health; Amy Brand, Program
Manager, Harvard University Presented With: Biomedical & Life Sciences
Division (Lead)
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Conversation, Collaboration & Community: Web 2.0 Has Something
for Everyone
Sponsored by LexisNexis
Moderated by: Gail Stahl, Lead Researcher, Strategy and Industrial Goods,
The Boston Consulting Group, Atlanta, GA
Speakers: Kent Anderson, Executive Director, Product
Development and International Business Development, The New
England Journal of Medicine; Marie Kaddell, Senior Information
Professional Consultant, LexisNexis
Presented With: Knowledge Management Division
3:30pm - 5:00pm
The New Face of the Special Librarian: Embedded Librarians
Sponsored by Nature
Moderated by: Jacalyn C. Spoon, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Speakers: Mary Talley Garcia, Information Management Consulting Services;
Josh Duberman, Informationist/Research Librarian, National Institutes
of Health; Barb Zinter, Corporate
Librarian, Suncor Energy
Presented with: SOLO Librarians Division (Lead), Business and Finance
Division
Three
articles from Josh Duberman about NIH Informationists:
Chemistry and Tech Transfer
Team Players
Informationist
Programme (also
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2664161)
Tuesday, June 16
7:00am - 8:30am
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Networking Breakfast
9:30am - 11:00am
90 Minutes with the FDA: What Do We Need to Know?
Location: Convention Center 152B
Moderated by: Claudia Cuca, Senior Research Consultant, Campbell Alliance
Speaker: Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., Deputy Director, FDA
11:30am - 1:00pm
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Business Meeting
Luncheon
Location: Convention Center 146C
Sponsored by New England Journal of Medicine
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Spotlight Session: Practical Strategies for Improving
ROI
Sponsored by Dow Jones
Moderated by: Gayle Gossen
Speakers: Karen Kreizman Reczek, Senior Manager, Bureau Veritas; Vicky
Platt, Willamette Management Association; Nancy Anne Brydges, Statistics
Canada; Steve Lastres, Director of Library and Knowledge Management,
Debevoise & Plimpton
Presented With: Division of Business and Finance (Lead), Knowledge Management
Division, Leadership and Management Division, Legal Division
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Open House
Sponsored by Thomson Reuters
Wednesday, June 17
7:00am - 8:00am
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Board of Directors
Meeting
8:30am - 10:00am
Corporate Medical Librarianship 101
Moderator: TBD
Speakers: Alex Feng, Senior Information Specialist Ethicon Endo- Surgery,
Inc.; Andrea M. Oliver, Senior Reference Librarian, Intelligencenter,
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
7:00pm on
Division No-Host Dinner
Please email Margaret Basket at margaretb@quosa.com if you plan on joining
us
Thursday, June 18
9:00am - 3:00pm
Tour: Annapolis
Ticket Price: $75.00 – includes admission fees, tax and gratuity – lunch
is on your own.
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