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 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-01
Marcus and I went to the Maker Faire on Sunday 30 September at the New York Hall of Science. It was fun. Stephen Wolfram was there giving a talk about the future of personal drones. Lots of people at the fair were showing off their drones both live and with video displays. There were 3D […]
Posted in education, festival, New York City | Tagged conference, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-07-25
I attended Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC. It was a very productive experience and I made a lot of friends there. On Thursday 12 July I gave my presentation, “Research institution collaboration”, as part of a panel. I was in the conference track sponsored by the Office of e-Diplomacy in the Department of State. Both […]
Posted in DC, education, Wikipedia, work | Tagged conference, Wikimania
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
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-24
John T. Slattery is a member of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington and of the Washington Phenotyped Biospecimen Resource. He was one of the speakers at that Friday 23 March communication conference. He spoke about a need to increase the information available to and usable by people receiving healthcare […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, Seattle | Tagged bioethics, conference, free as in freedom, John Slattery, open source
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-24
Yesterday Friday 23 March there was an informal meetup for people interested in ethics, biobanking, and modern media in Seattle. It was by invitation. I think most people who attended knew many of the other people in the room, and what I took away from the meeting was that we all share a common problem […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, health, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged biotech, conference
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-13
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. […]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-11
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of […]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on 2011-06-29
Recently I met a lot of leaders in public and global health. The World Affairs Council is a Seattle non-profit which organizes for leaders from other countries to come to Seattle and give presentations. Global Health Nexus promotes talks about health issues in Seattle. WAC definitely does a lot more events. On June 6 WAC […]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, politician, royal