Register for the Medical Communications Meet and Learn Package to save $200 through March 13! This package includes registration for the Medical Affairs and Scientific Communications Forum as well as a discount on the full Medical Communications eLearning Program. Use this unique opportunity to learn before you go!
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March 12: Medical Communications Primer*
March 13: Short Courses (AM)*
March 13-15: Forum

Short Course 1: Medical Communications: Compliance in 2017
Short Course 2: Promotional and Medical Review Committee 101
Short Course 3: Wearing Multiple Hats with Style – How to Effectively Manage Your Medical Writing Projects
Short Course 4: Medical Science Liaison - Achieving Success in Your Career

*Primer and Short Courses require separate registration.

The Medical Affairs and Scientific Communications Forum is a cross-functional forum for knowledge sharing and integrated thought leadership, for the purposes of gaining further expertise and networking opportunities in a specific area of work, as well as related functional areas. The sessions are developed to meet the needs of those who work in pharmaceutical-based medical affairs and scientific communications, and organized into three central tracks (descriptions below):

• Medical Communications
• Medical Writing: Regulatory and Publication
• Medical Science Liaisons

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• Two Keynote Addresses: Dr. Anna Barker, PhD: Complexity, Convergence, and Collaboration: Forces Shaping the Future of Precision Medicine and Lucy Rose, MBA: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Potpourri for the Medical Affairs Professional
• Three educational tracks with five concurrent breakout sessions
• One full day Medical Communications Primer: The Fundamentals of Medical Communications
• Four half day short courses
• Cross-functional general sessions and breakouts dedicated to integrating work areas, addressing regulatory, policy, and medicine updates
• Podium Pearls presentations on best practices
• Two poster sessions highlighting original research from fellows, residents in training, and professionals
• Exhibit Hall with 30+ exhibiting companies
• Two networking receptions

Learn more about our Keynote Speaker Dr. Anna Barker, PhD.

• DIAfit! We have a DIAfit sunrise yoga class scheduled on the mornings of Tuesday, March 14, 6:30-7:30AM, and Wednesday, March 15, 6:30-7:15 AM. The instructor, Lisa Toth, is also speaker in the Medical Writing track
• New interactive sessions: This year’s program features a mix of traditional session formats and new engaging formats such as MEDtalk (a storytelling format), role playing, demonstrations, and group work
• New technology: Introducing the Catch Box - a handheld microphone you can toss around the room for easier question and answer sessions, and enhanced live-polling through the DIA App
• Networking boost: Our traditional opening reception on March 13 has been extended and moved outside onto the beautiful resort grounds; join our live Tweet Up event on March 14, 12:45-1:30PM to engage and interact with your peers via the social media platform, Twitter; and experience not one, but two opportunites to share a meal with fellow attendees at our Dinner on the Town on the evenings of March 12 and March 14

Medical Science Liaison Track
The MSL track will feature a wide range of topics for both tenured, and new MSL professionals. The sessions highlight seasoned industry professionals with the goal of providing insight into the changing MSL role across the product life cycle, perspectives on demonstrating MSL value, and evaluating the globalization of the MSL role. The program will also explore future facets of the MSL role with the emergence of a variety of new thought leader types in our expanding health care system. Attendees will learn best practices for ensuring professional growth, innovative methods for MSL training, and solutions and new tools to assist field-based medical teams with engaging both internal and external stakeholders.   

Medical Writing Track
The medical writing track is subdivided into two tracks: regulatory and publications. Sessions will cover: health education outcomes research; EMA policy 70 and layperson summaries; innovative ways of presenting data; sponsor/vendor relationships; medical writing competency model and professionalism; authorship and publication planning; effective communication of quantitative research; writing for clinical pharmacology; devices and submissions; and dealing with team challenges and criticism.