[IEEE-bhpjobs] September BHP-related meetings

Fri Sep 10 22:23:05 EDT 2004

IEEE Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration

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On a personal note, I landed a job. I am a contractor, testing software 
used in clinical trials, at Duke Clinical Research Institute. Anyone who 
wants to volunteer to line up a speaker for the Nov. 15th meeting would 
be very welcome!!  - Esther

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News and Resources:

- Do It by Design: An Introduction to Human Factors in Medical Devices, 
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/humfac/doitpdf.pdf . Also see 
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2003/403_devices.html .

- July 20-23 there was a conference about the National Health 
Information Infrastructure (e-records). Conference

materials and breakout group reports are at 
http://www.hsrnet.net/nhii/materials.htm

- 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/

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

Sept 14, IEEE Professional Development Institute, 6pm. Topic: Time 
management. Pre-register at

http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi

Sept 16, PEERS meeting, 9am, http://peers.onsphere.com/ Triangle Part 
Eleven Electronic Records and Signatures group

Sept 16, TISQA annual dinner meeting, RTP Sheraton, www.tisqa.org

Sept 20, ISPE Carolina-Southatlantic Chapter Fall Conference, 
http://www.ispe.org/carolina-southatlantic/events.htm

Sep 21, ASQ meeting, 5pm: Measurement System Analysis Workshop.  meeting 
topic: Using a Baldrige Collaborative Process to Facilitate Continuous 
Improvement. http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html

Sep 23, RTPSPIN meeting, 10:15am, 'A Case for Clinical Data Quality', 
www.rtpspin.org

Sep 23, IEEE Section and WIE meeting, Entrepreneurial Program.

http://www.federal-systems.com/ieee/calendar/htdocs/cal.html

Sep 23, NCRAF meeting, 5:30pm, Janet Robinson of Family Health 
International will be speaking on the EU Clinical Trials Directive. 
www.ncraf.org

Sep 27, IEEE BHP-JHC meeting, 6:30pm, Michael Janas, HR Director of 
INCresearch will speak about jobs that exist in clinical research, and 
what skills are transferrable from telecom/IT to those jobs.

http://www.federal-systems.com/ieee/calendar/htdocs/cal.html

Oct 4, SoCRA meeting, 6pm at DCRI. guests welcome, must email in 
advance. Send email to cianc001 at mc.duke.edu

Oct 5, IEEE Professional Development Institute, 6pm. Topic: How to deal 
with difficult people. Pre-register at http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

Oct 8, PDA-SE Golf Social, http://www.pdase.org/events.html

Oct 10, Sally Ride Science Festival, Raleigh. For middle school girls 
and their parents/adult leaders.

Oct 12, ASQ meeting, 6pm, http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html  Topic: 
Effective Software Security Testing Strategies
Speaker: Pat Daggett, Principal QA/Test Engineer from EMC Corporation

Oct 25, IEE BHP-JHC meeting, 6:30pm, Topic: introduction to Data 
Management for clinical trials. details will be posted at 
http://www.federal-systems.com/ieee/calendar/htdocs/cal.html

Oct 20, PDA-SE Fall meeting, details TBA, http://www.pdase.org/events.html

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Upcoming Conferences and Training:

Sep 20-24, SQA Fall Training Week, Raleigh. Computer Validation, GLP, 
GCP, and GMP topics. 
http://www.sqa.org/newsite/public/meeting-training-fall04.asp Register 
before Aug 30.

Sep 20-24, PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference and Courses, DC, 
http://www.pda.org/calendar/Meetings/PDAFDA2004/index.html

Sep 23-26, SoCRA Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 
http://www.socra.org/2004_conference.htm

Oct 7, ASQ Biomedical Risk Management: ISO 14971:2000, Costa Mesa, CA, 
http://www.asq.org/biomed/conferences/index.html

Oct 12-15, IEEE Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, **_RTP_**, 
http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/tech4life/

Oct 14, TISQA Software Automation Conference, 8am-5pm, 
http://conference.tisqa.org/ - Learn some automated software testing 
skills!!!

Oct 18-19, ASQ Southeastern Quality Conference, Atlanta,
http://www.asq.org/pls/portal/gemini.gmi_display_event?in_event_id=422&in_from_calendar=ALL_EVENTS 
Register before Sept 6.

Oct 18-21, IVT "IT Operations Management & Infrastructure Qualification 
Conference", Philly, http://www.ivthome.com/conferences/index.htm 
http://www.ivthome.com/conferences/ivt_IT_Philadelphia.pdf

Oct 18-22, Arlington, VA, CDISC/DIA eClinical Interchange: From 
Clinician to Submission Conference

Oct 25-28, IVT Annual Meeting - Validation Week, Philly. 
http://www.ivthome.com/

Oct 30, ACRP Fall Conference, RTP, 
http://www.acrpnet.org/chapters/rtpk/index.html

Nov 12-14, AAUW EF Symposium, "International Perspectives: Women Leading 
Change in Public Health and Technology", 
http://www.aauw.org/ef/symposium.cfm

Jan 2005, ASQ Southeast FDC/FDA Conference, Raleigh, TBA, 
http://www.asq.org/fdc/conferences/index.html and
http://www.asq.org/fdc/conferences/200401_raleigh.html

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

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--  Esther L., esther_L @ ieee.org, 'esther_ letter L @ ieee.org'.
Speaking only for myself