ISMPP Volunteer Committees
The effectiveness of our platforms and committees is dependent on an open, cross-functional collaboration among our committee members and leaders. The ISMPP Board of Trustees must also ensure that the goals and objectives and priorities of the organization are communicated to each committee. To view the ISMPP Committee Structure, click here.
Each spring, ISMPP holds an annual committee drive to secure volunteers to participate in our ever-important committees. Committee leaders—chairs and vice chairs—are selected from this list by the ISMPP Board of Trustees. Leadership qualifications include your professional position, your years of experience, and your prior service to ISMPP. Should you be interested in serving in a leadership capacity for one of our committees, please contact Kim Goldin (kgoldin@ismpp.org). She will convey your interest to the ISMPP Board of Trustees.
Our members' support is critical to our continued success and we appreciate our volunteers' interest in and commitment to ISMPP.
Committee Structure and Alignment
There are four active platforms and committees and the semi-autonomous Credentialing Board (click on a link to jump to details):
Below you will find the description of each committee under the over-arching platform they fall under.
Each year all committee volunteers must sign a Conflict of Interest and Responsibility form in order to serve along with an opt-in/out to have your name posted on the website for the committee you serve on.
Education
This platform provides regular, topical, and easily accessible educational opportunities for ISMPP members. Their programs are directed towards all levels of medical publications and publication planning; programs focus on practical issues that help further hone skills in professional medical publication planning for long-term professional advancement and success.
Included are the Annual Meeting Program, European Meeting Program, Global Workshop and ISMPP U Committees.
Annual Program Committee
The Annual Program Committee works to develop Annual Meeting curriculum with distinguished presenters who engage, enlighten, and stimulate ISMPP members on the topics that impact medical publications and publication planning. Their programs endeavor to provide education for both entry-level and seasoned professionals, as well as inform on the current environment for medical publication.
European Program Committee
The European Program Committee works to develop the European Meeting curriculum with distinguished presenters who engage, enlighten, and stimulate ISMPP members on the topics that impact medical publications and publication planning. Their programs endeavor to provide education for both entry-level and seasoned professionals, as well as inform on the current environment for medical publication.
Global Workshop Committee (formerly Workshop Committee)
This committee will assist with the development of practical, strategic, and tactical workshops for the membership, to be offered at the ISMPP yearly meetings (Annual and European), as well as at other points during the year.
ISMPP U Committee
This committee is responsible for the planning and delivery of ISMPP U(niversty) seminars.
Membership
This platform is responsible for the development and execution of targeted initiatives to attract new members and increase the membership retention rate through various means of communications. This platform includes the Membership and Sponsorship and Benefits Committees.
Membership Committee
This committee is charged with the development of programs to attract new members, as well as engage and maintain current ISMPP members through broad-based marketing and networking efforts designed to emphasize the benefits of a society membership. Through its marketing initiatives, this committee will seek to achieve a balanced representation of professionals from the pharmaceutical, device, biotech, and publishing industries; medical communication companies; and research, regulatory, and educational groups
Sponsorship & Benefits Committee
The Sponsorship & Benefits Committee (formerly Resource Development Committee) serves to develop plans to help increase awareness and fiscal support (including in-kind support) for ISMPP at a company level, as well as to benchmark the activities of other associations in our immediate and related space (e.g. member benefits, annual dues, meeting fees, technology, etc).
Outreach
This Platform is responsible for the overall communication of the Society’s core principles, mission and objectives as well as the marketing and public relations activities outside of the membership.
This platform includes the Communication, Issues & Actions and Marketing Implementation Committees.
Communications Committee
The mission of this committee is to communicate ongoing ISMPP activities to the ISMPP membership, and promote ISMPP to members of the pharmaceutical and medical publishing industries, the healthcare community, and the general public. Members will communicate standards, best practices, and educational opportunities, and proactively support the needs of all other ISMPP Committees.
Issues & Actions Committee
The Issues & Actions Committee serves to formulate formal responses to policy and procedures publicly addressing issues that impact ISMPP. Member responsibilities include, but are not limited to, balancing response to public criticism of the role of professional publication planners, as well as identifying opportunities for outreach by the association to relevant groups of stakeholders with similar views on major issues.
Marketing Implementation Committee
Working with the newly established Marketing & PR Task Force, and Communications and Issues & Actions Committees, this group will execute their strategic plans, with support of other committees and the ISMPP office as appropriate.
Standards & Guidelines
This platform establishes the protocol for standards and best practices for medical publication professionals, documents the processes, and establishes the basis for communicating this information to the ISMPP membership.
This platform includes the Standards and Ethics Committees.
Standards Committee
This committee endeavors to discover, document and promote best practices in medical publications and publication planning in order to establish appropriate standards within the profession. The committee promotes sharing of innovative methods, approaches, and solutions to common challenges, as well as adoption of consensus guidelines that are pragmatic, repeatable and significantly enhance the professional practices of ISMPP members.
Ethics Committee
This committee strives to identify appropriate ethical standards within medical publishing and has used them to craft a statement on behalf of the Society to serve as a benchmark for those within the profession. Building on the ISMPP Code of Ethics, committee members will continue to develop programs to ensure that the membership understands these ethical standards and how to best incorporate them into their professional practices.
Certification Board
The ISMPP CMPP Program functions under the leadership of the elected Certification Board. The Board, which functions semi-autonomously and reports to the ISMPP Board of Trustees, is responsible for supporting the activities necessary to keep the program current and viable.
Credentialing Committee (open to CMPPs only)
This committee meets monthly, and takes responsibilities for ongoing activities related to the CMPP program.
Recertification Committee (open to CMPPs only)
The Recertification Committee supports the strategic initiatives of the Certification Board at a tactical level, specifically focused on implementing and refining the recertification program. The implementation of specific tactics by members of the Recertification Committee are directed and overseen by assigned member(s) of the Certification Board.
Spotlight
Committee Structure
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Click here to submit your volunteer committee preferences before May 18
