presentation
I present, am presented, and am presented to
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
I was invited to speak at the conference on Tuesday 1 April. I was on a panel called “Partnering with Patients: What do you need from each other?” The description to the talk asked, “When it comes to engagement in clinical trials, are pharmaceutical executives getting it right or are we leaving a huge amount […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, health, Las Vegas, presentation, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
On Sunday 21 July I went to a conference called “reRoute” hosted by the New Economics School and held at New York University. The conference was for what I would call young leaders in the consumer movement, although the attendees would not call themselves that. I am not sure what they call what they are […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, Open access, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-29
From April 26-28 Lori and Dominic, staff Wikipedians for a Children’s Museum and the National Archives, hosted a “GLAM Boot Camp” in DC. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. They announced it months in advance and I reserved my room and booked my travel as soon as dates were posted, but […]
Posted in DC, Open access, presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-18
I attended Consumer Assembly, which is the Consumer Federation of America annual conference. Their program gives the agenda of what happened over March 14-15. Elizabeth Warren, friend of the Consumer Movement, was opening speaker and encouraging of all the work we did. I went to sessions on mobile privacy and warning labels and attended the […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, presentation, rights, work | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-07
The NYSHealth Foundation (New York State) today hosted Alan Weil of the National Academy for State Health Policy to talk about health care reform strategies in the United States. I attended in the place of Chuck Bell, my colleague at Consumer Reports, because he was otherwise busy today. I hardly knew what to expect. I […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, presentation | Tagged reform
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-25
Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Eric Hellman, Jake Orlowitz, Jami Mathewson, Jennifer Baek, Mike Christie, Tom Sulcer, videography
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-14
I was riding the train home with John Santa, director of health ratings at Consumer Reports, on the night of Sunday 10 November. I asked him for an example of how conflict of interest happens with doctors. He prefaced his story by explaining the premise that there is something about human nature which causes unavoidable […]
Posted in drug, education, presentation, research | Tagged conference, conflict of interest, John Santa
By bluerasberry on 2012-09-23
Patrick was in town with his friend Aiden on vacation seeing lots of theatre. He had told me months ago that they were going to see Einstein on the Beach and asked if I was interested. I had not yet heard that the show can been revived. I had wanted to see the show because […]
Posted in art, New York City, presentation | Tagged opera, Patrick
By bluerasberry on 2012-06-02
Wednesday 30 May – Friday 1 June the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) held their summer full group meeting in DC, as they always do. This was the first time I attended the DC meeting. I had planned to attend even when I was in Seattle but then I got this job at Consumer Reports […]
Posted in DC, health, HIV, presentation, research, rights | Tagged conference, HVTN, social media