DIA Annual Meeting Information

Drug Information Association

By Ron Fitzmartin, Vice President, Drug Information Association

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From June 26 - 30, over 8000 professionals from all over the world will converge on Washington, DC, to participate in the DIA 41st Annual Meeting. Don't miss the chance to network with colleagues, increase your knowledge base, and visit one of the 550 companies in the exhibit hall. The DIA Annual Meeting is the industry event of the year.

Chairpersons' Message

The DIA Program Committee has developed an operational action plan with the primary goal to maintain and enhance the overall quality of the tutorials, meeting tracks, sessions, and presentations. We have developed and have begun to deliver training to track and session chairs on procedures and processes for enhancing the overall meeting experience of the attendee. We have developed and will implement session content difficulty levels. These levels will be assigned by the session chairs and will provide the attendee with a guide as to whether the session content is basic, intermediate or advanced.

The levels will better assist the attendees in the selection of sessions to attend and thereby facilitate a more efficient use of their time at the meeting. We will link the tutorials to various tracks and sessions by noting which sessions complement the tutorial topic areas. There will be a number of plenary sessions that focus on special topics that range from health policy and international regulatory issues to the FDAs Critical Path Initiative. Dr. Bernadine Healy will be the first woman to deliver a DIA keynote address at the opening plenary.

Author Information - Ron Fitzmartin

Vice President

Ron Fitzmartin, PhD, MBA, is Vice President, Global Technical Services at Daiichi Medical Research, Inc., with global responsibility for biostatistics, data management, pharmacokinetics, bioanalysis, medical writing, and informatics. Previously, Ron was Group Executive Director, Biostatistics and Data Operations at Purdue Pharma L.P. At Purdue Pharma, Ron served as head of biostatistics and clinical data management, head of clinical information technology, and worldwide head of clinical data operations. Ron worked as a statistician and technologist in government, industry, and academia. These included: META Solutions, Inc., US Bureau of the Census, US Department of the Navy, and the University of Maryland, College Park. Ron received an MS in Statistics from Southern Connecticut State University, a PhD in Measurement and Statistics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

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