The DIA 2019 Call-for-Abstracts is now OPEN!! DIA 2019 will be in San Diego, getting an abstract approved is a great way to get to attend. The registration fee is significantly reduced for those who present content. At the site is also the abstract guidelines and categories.
The submission period is open from August 1 – September 12.
LaunchBio (LaunchBio) holds events on the first Thursday of the month in Durham, NC. They are held in the Chesterfield Building in the downtown area. The building was formerly a cigarette manufacturing building. It has now been converted and there is incubator lab space for drug discovery and development.
It is a great opportunity for networking with people involved in the clinical research industry. Here I am enjoying a Durty Bull Lager beer and conversation with Peter Weiman and David Holland (they’re drinking the IPA that was being served).
As some of you know, when I hear someone say something that, if taken out of context strikes me funny, I make note of it. I’ve done this for years at corporate meetings and have published many of them at this website.
Being out of larger corporations and their penchant for meetings, meetings and more meetings, I’m not presented with as many opportunities. Here are a few captured over the past 3 years in a variety of settings:
I drink a lot, all the time.
– Michelle Jacobson, 7/14/2015
My beer is always full of fridge.
– Michelle Jacobson, 7/14/2015
The men are easy.
– Kelly O’Brien, 7/14/2015
She just changed reality!
– Chris Matheus (date unrecorded)
Sooner or later, everything happens.
– Kevin Clover, May 2018
Reprinting this from a Reader’s Digest:
These are things not to do when interviewing. These were provided by hiring managers:
FOCM was busy before and at the DIA convention in Boston in June. FOCM along with Zymewire, Investigator Support Services, Kwipped and DataMatrix sponsored the 2nd annual Sunday night networking event before DIA exhibits opened. In the exhibit hall, FOCM gave its seal of approval to several vendors, assisTek being one. Unfortunately, the Arizona State Sun Devil hand sign snuck into the picture. In the shadow on the table, it appears to be a weapon of some kind.
At the recent annual Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting held in Boston last month, two outstanding individuals completed the grueling probationary period, thorough background checks and initiation process. Please join me in welcoming Andrew Suri and Megan Carson to FOCM. As others who have received their membership cards, the ceremony itself can be emotionally draining. This was no exception, the sheer joy on their faces tells the story.
Andrew is Director of Business Development for Clinogix. Megan is Assistant Project Manager at assisTek.
Sharing a video from Polaris Compliance Consultants re: the GDPR/EU Data Privacy: