DIA 2016 Annual Meeting

Component Type: Workshop
Level: Basic
CE: CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Unlock the key to successful presentations in a powerful interactive workshop. Learn the critical elements to include and what to avoid in developing and delivering presentations in many different environments, and enhance your skills with practice.

**Due to workshop format, seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

The Pennsylvania Convention Center has stringent regulations on maximum room capacities, and they are strictly enforced. Once all seats are occupied, DIA will be required to close the workshop, and no more participants will be admitted. Interested attendees are encouraged to arrive early in order to ensure seating.

Learning Objectives

Discuss key skills for delivering successful presentations; Identify key communication mistakes to avoid during presentations; Practice presentation delivery skills.

Chair

Lynn King, MHA

Speaker

Facilitator
Karyn A. Lasky

Component Type: Workshop
Level: Basic
CE: CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Maximize your time at the Annual Meeting by getting a head start on networking skills. This workshop will address the value of networking, examining how to assess one’s own personality type, how an effective network needs a variety of personality types, and how to communicate effectively for personal and professional growth. Following the workshop, there will be an informal gathering at a local venue where you get to practice your new networking skills. This is a great way to meet other attendees and start off your week.

Would you like to attend this workshop? RSVP using this SURVEY LINK by June 3.

**Due to workshop format, seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

The Pennsylvania Convention Center has stringent regulations on maximum room capacities, and they are strictly enforced. Once all seats are occupied, DIA will be required to close the workshop, and no more participants will be admitted. Interested attendees are encouraged to arrive early in order to ensure seating.

Learning Objectives

Identify personality traits of oneself; Identify personality types of others; Differentiate communication strategies based on personality type; Demonstrate how to optimize your network.

Chair

Chris Matheus, MBA

Speaker

Facilitator
Bob Muzerall

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: IACET 1.25

DIA offers students and emerging professionals a large number of networking and job hunting opportunities. This session will explore some of these opportunities in industry and in government agencies, and will also explore how DIA student chapter participation has helped students start their careers while participating in chapter events and opportunities.

Learning Objectives

Describe the role of student chapters in career starts; Identify industry career opportunities; Identify government regulatory career opportunities.

Chair

Danny Benau, PhD

Speaker

Government Positions: Opportunities, Considerations, and Processes for Federal Employment
Tammy J. Massie

DIA Student Chapter Membership as Part of a Career Springboard
Philip Masaitis

Opportunities in the Drug Safety Arena
Sameer Thapar, PharmD, RPh

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: IACET 1.00

Most who are fortunate enough to take an executive course return to the office filled with enthusiasm, ready to implement their new learnings. Unfortunately, the demands of the day job soon crush that enthusiasm. A mentor makes all the difference.

Learning Objectives

Discuss how having a good mentor can "up your game" continually; Describe what makes a good mentor including how they can help you succeed; Explore some of the tools, techniques and skills successful executive coaches use.

Chair

David B. Stein

Speaker

CRA Retention: Insider’s Perspectives on Interventions to Anchor a Tenured, Talented Workforce
Nadia Bracken

Component Type: Session
Level: Basic
CE: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-16-578-L04-P; CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

A multiperspective, practical look at incorporating social listening into pharmacovigilance practices—including challenges, knowledge and guidance gaps, regulatory guidance, and recent research as well as experiential findings from both pharma and academia. Come hear some very up-to-date and practical learnings from social media in pharmacovigilance and be challenged to rethink some preconceptions about it.

Learning Objectives

Discuss current challenges and gaps in use of social media for pharmacovigilance including patient privacy, regulatory guidance, legal and reporter identification as global issues; Explain how some pharmaceutical companies have overcome some of those challenges to collect and analyze social media data to augment current postmarketing pharmacovigilance measures and where value has been found; Describe some findings from recent research efforts and data collection methods.

Chair

Laurie S. Anderson, PharmD

Speaker

Current Gaps and Challenges in Pharmacovigilance with Respect to Social Media
Lalitha P. Aiyer, MD, MBA, MS

A Real-World Look at Mining Social Media for Adverse Events: Impact of Regulatory Definitions and Methods
Michael A. Ibara, PharmD

Real-World Use of Social Listening for Pharmacovigilance Currently in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Lorrie Schifano, PharmD

Component Type: Forum
Level: Basic
CE: IACET 1.25

Hear from industry leaders on why they made a change and how they overcame personal/professional obstacles including new skills needed. Learn how these obstacles were overcome to make a "maybe" their reality, and determine if a change might be in your future.

Learning Objectives

Describe how various industry leaders made a significant change in their careers and the skills/thinking required to do so; Discuss how to interact with industry leaders to gain real-world and personal insights on what it takes to make a change; Explain what it takes to change one's career or plan to do so.

Chair

Kimberly Belsky, MS

Speaker

You’ve Worked a Long Time for a Sponsor, Now What?
Betsy Fallen, RN

Moving Within Pharma: Medical Affairs to Pharmacovigilance
Stephen Knowles

Through the Revolving Door: From Government to Private Practice
Heidi F. Gertner

Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: CME 1.00; IACET 1.00; RN 1.00

Understanding evidence-based systemic reviews requires not only foundational but also integrative, metacognitive skills. This session provides an overview of a successful, graduate-level how-to course as well as key practical takeaways for R&D.

Learning Objectives

Summarize role and importance of understanding evidence analysis for the R&D professional, including those headed for or currently in the pharmaceutical industry; Formulate the general structures of teaching evidence analysis to graduate students and strategies for tailoring to needs of students with widely varying background funds of knowledge.

Chair

Lisa Palladino Kim, MS

Speaker

Using a Meta-Analytic Method to Build Rigorous Thinkers for Clinical Trial Sciences
James Scott Parrott, PhD

CRO Perspective
Otis Johnson