[IEEE-bhpjobs] June biotech-related meetings

[Esther L.]

IEEE Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration

The St Mike's jobhunting list has some Project Manager openings in the 
Pharma industry. Mid-level to Senior Project Managers,  previous 
pharma/CRO experience is not listed in the requirements. See 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/St_Mikes_Career_Group/


News and Resources:

- ON HOLD: Greenwood CVR/Manpower Training sponsored by IEEE BHP-JHC 
'Intro to the Regulated Industry, an IT Perspective' starts. Stay tuned 
to http://www.rtpnet.org/ieee/bhpjhc/


- congressional testimony with informative overview of clinical trials 
for cancer, http://www.fda.gov/ola/2004/clinicaltrials0513.html  In both 
cancer and multiple sclerosis trials, there is no placebo treatment - 
everyone gets treatment.

- IBM webcast: IT's role in protein structure analysis, 
http://www-1.ibm.com/industries/lifesciences/doc/content/event/ddi/994283121.html


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




May 24, Joint IEEE EMBS and BHP-JHC meeting, 6-8pm, Topic:  Dr. Caroline 
Seay of UNC will present multimedia genomics project. Location: MCNC 
Auditorium,  light refreshments available. Directions to MCNC: 
http://www.mcnc-rdi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=location_and_directions.html
Contact:  Tom Jepsen, tjepsen at mindspring.com

June 9, NCRAF meeting, 6pm, Open House for Regulatory Affairs 
Certification Study Group, www.ncraf.org

June 14, ACRP meeting, 5:30pm, Pharmacokinetics 101, 
http://www.acrpnet.org/chapters/rtpk/index.html

June 16, IEEE Embedded Systems mtg, "Programming in the Small", 6pm, 
MCNC. https://www.ieeecommunities.org/embedded?go=421982

June 17, PEERS meeting, 9am, http://peers.onsphere.com/ Triangle Part 
Eleven Electronic Records and Signatures group

June 16, TISQA meeting, 6:15pm, Test Metrics: A Practical Approach to 
Tracking & Interpretation (STAR & QAI). www.tisqa.org

June 22, NCRAF RAC Study Course begins (every Tuesday until Oct), 
www.ncraf.org

July 13, IEEE Professional Development Institute, 6pm. Topic: How to 
deal with difficult people. Pre-register at http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

July 15, PEERS meeting, 9am, http://peers.onsphere.com/ Triangle Part 
Eleven Electronic Records and Signatures group

July 20, NCCSQA quarterly meeting, 8:30-4:00, www.nccsqa.org Risk 
Analysis: How to use Risk Assessment for Compliance, $35/55. Register by 
July 14.

July 24, IEEE Section Picnic and Awards Celebration

Aug 9, ACRP meeting, 5:30pm. http://www.acrpnet.org/chapters/rtpk/index.html

Sep 23, RTPSPIN meeting, 10:20am, __tentative__ Topic: A Case for 
(Clinical) Data Quality. Presenter is from DQRI. The FDA has made 
accelerated progress in the past five years in the area of automation. 
Technology has indeed advanced rapidly to meet the needs of the 
Information Age; however, theories and concepts to make the best use 
technology as well as the quality of those technological advances have 
not developed at the same pace. Simultaneously, significant progress has 
been made in the development of standards for the format, content and 
data relationships for submission of data to the FDA, including safety 
data and meta-data. www.rtpspin.org


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Upcoming Conferences and Training:


June 14, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-CH
Oncology Clinical Trials: Concepts to Outcomes email: henry_bell at med.unc.edu

Aug 2-3, "Roadmap for Success in International Research: Strategies
for Protecting Human Research Subjects Globally", Chapel Hill, 
https://register.rti.org/internationalirb/

Aug 9-13, Estimated dates for TechEngage.

Oct 13-15, IEEE Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, 
http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/tech4life/

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Thanks,
Esther Lumsdon, RAC
Chair of IEEE ENCS Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration

BHP-JHC website: http://www.rtpnet.org/ieee/bhpjhc/
Mailing List: http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ieee-bhpjobs

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IEEE Section Calendar: 
http://www.federal-systems.com/ieee/calendar/htdocs/cal.html
http://www.federal-systems.com/discus/messages/8/122.html



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-- Esther L. esther_L @ ieee.org, letter L, not a numeral.
Speaking only for myself