Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development is an independent, academic, non-profit research group at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Our mission is to develop strategic information to help drug developers, regulators, and policy makers improve the quality and efficiency of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical development, review, and utilization.

2012 Roundtables:

• February 23, 2012: Managing the Transition from Nonclinical to Early Clinical Development
• May 17, 2012: Academic-Industry Partnerships: Opportunities and Pitfalls
• September 13, 2012: The Changing Landscape for Technical Services Outsourcing
• November 1, 2012: Development Strategies for Companion Diagnostics

More information can be found here:  http://csdd.tufts.edu/courses

Tufts Postgraduate Course in Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Development, and Regulation

Do you have a strong interest in Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Development, or Regulation? Perhaps you may want to consider attending the Tufts Postgraduate Course in Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Development, and Regulation.

February 6-10, 2012
TAJ Boston Hotel
Boston, MA

Tufts CSDD's highly acclaimed, five-day Postgraduate Course provides advanced instruction in practical and technical problem-solving in the areas of clinical pharmacology, drug development, clinical trial design, and new drug regulation. Continuing education credit is offered for physicians.

Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication

At the Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication, July 17-22, 2011, you will learn the skills and techniques to develop and execute a web and social media strategy for your organization. The Summer Institute mixes lectures by distinguished guest speakers and Tufts School of Medicine faculty with hands-on work in teams to help you learn how to use web and social media technologies to further your organization's goals and meet the needs of healthcare consumers.

At the Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication you will learn to:

• Use the web and social media to communicate with and connect to patients.
• Develop a coherent and justifiable web strategy for health communication.
• Select, use, manage, and evaluate the effectiveness of web technologies to create an online presence.
• Accelerate your online presence through the use of social media.
• Employ research-based methodologies such as persona development and formative evaluation.
• Use best practices from leading health organizations.

Web Strategies for Health Communication is offered through the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine and meets in the Sackler Building on the Tufts Boston campus.

Career networking event tonight (MD/MBA Conference)

I'm now in Boston attending the Association of MD/MBA Programs (AMMP) 8th Annual Conference. Tonight, the meeting kicks off with a career networking event sponsored by Propel Careers, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. My wife and I were commenting that we missed the old restaurant at the top of the Hyatt. Do you remember what it was called? Spinnaker.

While I'm here at the MD/MBA conference, I look forward to meeting:

* Current and future MD/MBA and DO/MBA students
* Medical students, residents, fellows
* Current and future directors of MD/MBA programs
* Faculty affiliated with MD/MBA programs
* Industry representatives interested in learning more about MD/MBA professionals
* Business school representatives affiliated with MD/MBA programs
* Premedical students interested in management
* MBA students in health sector specialties

Hope to see you at the 8th Annual MD/MBA Conference

I hope to see you at the 8th Annual MD/MBA Conference next month in Cambridge, MA. I'll be wandering around MIT when I'm not in sessions. 

Propel Careers and Tufts University School of Medicine will be co-hosting the networking event on April 9th for the 8th Annual MD/MBA conference which will be held in Cambridge MA from April 9th – 11th 2010. The networking event will be at the Cambridge Hyatt from 6-9pm.

• Richard Kalish, MD, MPH Medical Director, Boston HealthNet, Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan 
• Wing Delatorre, MD, MBA Head of Business Operations bi3, Director, New Ventures, Biogen Idec 
• John Fallon, MD, MBA Senior Vice President, Chief Physician, Executive, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA 
• Joseph Fastow, MD, MPH President, Physician Management, Ltd. 
• Jonathan Gertler, MD, MBA Managing Director, Leerink Swann, Strategic Advisors, Leerink Swann 
• Lisa Bard Levine, MD, MBA Associate Director, Healthcare, Navigant Consulting, Inc. 
• N. Stephen Ober, MD, MBA Director, MD/MBA Dual Degree, Program, Boston University 
• Winston Sherrill, PhD, MBA, MHA Associate Professor Public Health, Sciences, Clemson University 
• Peter Slavin, MD, MBA President, Massachusetts General Hospital 
• Christopher Baugh, MD, MBA Medical Director, ED Observation Unit, Brigham and Woman's Hospital 
• Spencer Borden, MD, MBA Senior Managing Scientist, Exponent, Inc. 
• Maria Chandler, MD, MBA MD/MBA Faculty Advisor, University of California, Irvine 
• Ralph de la Torre, MD President and CEO, Caritas Christi Health Care

For more information, visit: http://www.mdmbaprograms.org

Incentives to Boost Health IT Adoption in Massachusetts

The state of Massachusetts has seen an impressive uptake of health IT because of incentives from health plans and a state-mandated deadline to have computerized physician order entry (CPOE) implemented in all hospitals within four years. Plus, with all those medical universities like Harvard, Tufts, Boston University, and U Mass Amherst, you have a state with a huge resource of technologists and scientists developing EHRs that are tailored for their health systems.

Master of Science in Health Communication

Interested in health communications? Medical writing?

Well, two major schools in the Boston area are offering a Master of Science in Health Communication

Tufts and Boston University

The program at BU is an online multidisciplinary program consisting of 10 courses. The program at Tufts is offered by Tufts University Medical School in collaboration with Emerson College.