[IEEE-bhpjobs] meetings info for February 2004

Thu Feb 12 16:27:32 EST 2004

IEEE Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration

Our next meeting will be February 23, 2004, Topic: "What can an engineer 
do in bioinformatics?". Dr. Simon Lin, Manager of Duke Bioinformatics 
Shared Resource will speak. This will be a joint meeting with IEEE EMBS. 
Location is ISA, 67 TW Alexander Drive, RTP. 
http://www.isa.org/Content/ContentGroups/Training3/Training_Course_Locations/ISA_Training_Institute.htm
Snacks at 6:00pm, Meeting at 6:30pm.

News and Resources:

- The proposed HL7 standard for Electronic Health Records is expected to 
go to the next round of balloting in March. Here is an article about the 
path of this standard - this topic could create some software 
development jobs. 
http://www.imakenews.com/health-itworld/e_article000216771.cfm?x=a2tWRfS,a19fd5jM

- A free daily email newsletter about news in food and drug law is 
available at http://www.smartbrief.com/fdli/

- You can sign up for free email newsletters from FDA at 
http://www.fda.gov/emaillist.html

- You can sign up for a free Healthcare IT email newsletter at 
http://nl.com.com/acct_mgmt.jsp?brand=techrepublic - you have to create 
a free account at TechRepublic.

- The mailing list for this group is at 
http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ieee-bhpjobs

- ethics in research training materials at 
http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Training/trainmat/ethicscurr/index.htm

- free webinars at 
http://www.advantageind.com/Training/Training.cfm?&Vend=65&AllSubmit=1

- info about free webinars from Nugenesis at 
http://nugenesis.com/pages/events/online_events.html
Archives of past webinars at 
http://nugenesis.com/pages/events/rec_websems.html

- Harold Meder's list of job-hunting groups, 
http://www.unc.edu/~hwm/uoc/groups.html

- ASQ Food Drug and Cosmetic Division, 
http://www.asq-fdcdivision.org/HOME.htm

- ASQ Biomedical Division, http://www.asqbiomed.org/

- The "new" unemployment networking website has gone dead. -  
http://www.eventhunt.com/Raleigh

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Upcoming meetings:
a GUI calendar to use temporarily:  http://calendar.yahoo.com/esther_mlus

Feb. 17, ISPE-CASA Student Chapter Career Fair. info at 
http://www.ispe.org/carolina-southatlantic/events.htm

Feb. 17, ASQ meeting, 6pm. Topic: Starting your own Quality Consultancy.
http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html - If you don't want to pay $18 for 
dinner, you can attend the talk after dinner.

Feb. 18, TISQA meeting, 6pm. James Bach will speak on "Exploratory 
Testing Explained". James Bach is a nationally-known software testing 
expert. $5 fee for guests. www.tisqa.org

Feb. 18, IEEE Embedded Systems Group meeting 6pm. Topic: Professor Alex 
Dean, Dept ECE at NCSU (http://www.cesr.ncsu.edu/agdean/) will describe 
the mission and activities of NCSU's Center for Embedded Systems 
Research. Send RSVP to druden at ieee.org

Feb. 19, Triangle Part Eleven Electronic Records & Signatures group mtg, 
9am, http://peers.onsphere.com/

Feb. 23, IEEE Joint EMBS and Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt 
Collaboration, 6:30pm, Topic: "What can an engineer do in 
bioinformatics?" RSVP to esther_l at ieee.org
Dr. Simon Lin is the technical manager of the Duke University 
Bioinformatics Shared Resource, which provides bioinformatics and 
computational biology infrastructure for the Duke University and the 
Medical Center. Dr. Lin was graduated from the Peking University School 
of Medicine, specialized in Medical Informatics. His post-graduate 
training at UNC-Chapel Hill was in Biophysics and Computational 
Chemistry. With interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. Lin focuses his 
research on functional genomics and medical data mining. He co-chaired 
the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Microarray Data Analysis 
(CAMDA) Conference, and edited three volumes of "Methods in Microarray 
Data Analysis" published by Kluwer.

Feb. 24, IEEE Professional Development Institute, 6pm. Topic: Mentoring 
101.  Open to all. Pre-register at http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

Mar. 1-6, ASQ Quality Management Conference, Dallas, TX. 
http://www.asq-qmd.org/page/16

Mar.  3, 9am-4pm, ISPE SouthAtlantic Spring Meeting. $300 for 
nonmembers. info at http://www.ispe.org/carolina-southatlantic/events.htm

Mar. 8-12, TechEngage Conference.  details at www.techengage.org

Mar.  9, IEEE Professional Development Institute, 6pm. Topic: So you 
want to be an Entrepreneur. Pre-register at http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

Mar. 10, NCPMI Pharma LIG meeting, 5:30pm. email pharmalig at ncpmi.org for 
details.

Mar. 16, ASQ meeting, 6pm. Topic: An Introduction to Process Auditing.
http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html - If you don't want to pay $18 for 
dinner, you can attend the talk after dinner.

Mar. 18, Triangle Part Eleven Electronic Records & Signatures group mtg, 
9am, http://peers.onsphere.com/

Mar. 26-28, IEEE SoutheastCon Greensboro, NC,  http://www.southeastcon.com/

May   3, SoCRA meeting, 6pm, Topic: "How Data Management Impacts the 
Quality of Research". guests welcome, must email in advance. Send email 
to Juliette_Nelsen at med.unc.edu

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Upcoming Courses:

Feb. 24-25, Risk-Based Approach to Computer Compliance, Focusing on GCP, 
from SEC Associates. Cost: $1500, www.secassociates.com.

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Thanks,
Esther Lumsdon, RAC
Chair of IEEE ENCS Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration
https://www.ieeecommunities.org/encs
http://www.federal-systems.com/discus/messages/8/122.html
http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ieee-bhpjobs
explanation of organization name acronyms at 
https://www.ieeecommunities.org/encs?go=241457

-- 
-- Esther L. esther_l at ieee.org, 
Speaking only for myself