Introduction

ISMPP is a volunteer organization. Since its inception, ISMPP has experienced such incredible enthusiasm from its membership—with many eager to assist in its development as the Society grows and evolves.  Volunteering to serve on an ISMPP committee is an excellent way to share your individual talents, experiences, and unique perspectives to contribute to this process.  We welcome and value your participation.

Once a year, we hold our annual committee volunteer drive. Watch your mailboxes for information on when and how to become an active committee member in an area of key interest to you. Please note that all volunteers will be asked to fill out a conflict of interest form prior to any participation.
Click here for Volunteer Form

If you have any questions, please contact Kimberly Goldin at 914 945 0507 or kgoldin@ismpp.org.

Communications

Committee Chair: Sadie Whittaker
The mission of the Communications 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. We will communicate standards, best practices and educational opportunities and proactively support the needs of all other ISMPP Committees
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Credentialing

Committee Chair:  Tim Bacon
The Credentialing Committee is charged with the development of a professional certification program for publication specialists. Working closely with an external consultant organization to facilitate the process, and with input from the Ethics, Standards and Best Practices, and Education Committees, the Committee will identify the key topics and issues for inclusion in the program.

The Committee will identify fundraising guidelines, eligibility requirements, body of knowledge, and practice requirements for publication professionals, and will develop an examination instrument and a governance board to oversee the examination process.
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Education

Committee Chair:  Bob Norris
The Education Committee provides regular, topical, and easily accessible educational programming for ISMPP members outside of the Annual Meeting. Their programs are directed towards not only entry-level publication planners, but also those with several-to-many years of experience The Committee strives to bring practical solutions to the day-to-day challenges encountered by publication planning professionals at all levels. Currently, their main focus is to organize the monthly Lunch-and-Learn webinars (ISMPP U) offered to all ISMPP members up to eight times each year.
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Ethics

Committee Chair:  Al Weigel
This committee strives to identify appropriate ethical standards within medical publishing and has utilized them to craft a statement on behalf of the Society to serve as a benchmark for those within the profession. With the release of 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.

To download a copy of the ISMPP Code of Ethics, click here.

To read the press release announcing the adoption of the ISMPP Code of Ethics, click here.
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European

Committee Chair:  Peter Hunter Johnston
The mission of the European Committee is to grow the European membership of ISMPP within a single ISMPP entity and to organize specific activities for European members including Meetings, Workshops, and Web conferences; the committee will provide input from a European perspective into the ISMPP Annual Meeting in terms of agenda items and speakers; and establish collaborative links with non-competitive organizations working in the same general area in Europe.
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Issues & Actions

Committee Chair:  Larry Hirsch
The Issues & Actions Committee’s purpose is to identify key issues of importance to ISMPP members, both prospectively and in an ad-hoc manner; to develop and communicate an ISMPP position to members and other targeted groups of individuals; and to collaborate with other interested parties as appropriate in order to strengthen ISMPP’s voice. This committee also serves to formulate policy and procedures for publicly addressing issues that impact ISMPP.
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Journal

Committee Chair:  TBD
Committee Chair:  Cindy Bossie ISMPP is pleased to announce the formation of this committee.  An exciting endeavor, this will be the first journal dedicated to publication planning and medical publishing professionals, and will support the issues of ISMPP, as well as provide a communications vehicle for the membership.  First tasks will be to flesh out the scope of the publication, determine the process for initial development of the publication and identification of the editorial board, and identify the publisher. ISMPP’s goal is to publish our first issue of the journal sometime in 2008.

Membership

Committee Chair:  Stan Heimberger
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.
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Program

Committee Chair:  Gene Snyder
The Program Committee works to develop the Annual Meeting curriculum with distinguished experts who engage, enlighten and stimulate ISMPP members on the topics that impact medical publications and publication planning across all of the segments involved in the publication of clinical trials’ results.  These programs endeavor to provide education for both entry-level and seasoned professionals, as well as to inform on the current environment for medical publication.
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Standards & Best Practices

Committee Chair:  Chris Graf and Rick Lamb
Need update.The Standards and Best Practices 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.
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Workshop

Committee Chair:  Kim Pepitone (acting chair)
This new committee will assist with the development of practical, strategic and tactical workshops for the membership, to be offered both at the Annual Meeting each spring, as well as at other points during the year.  This group has evolved from the Education Committee—as the Annual Meeting workshops have been so well received by members and the need to offer more of these types of programs has been identified.
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Volunteer Form

The 2008-2009 volunteer drive will take place in April.
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