Board of Directors
President
Paul Piché, BSc, MBA
President, HIT Global Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paul Piché, BSc, MBA, President and owner of HIT with +20 years of experience in medical research and continuing professional educational programs, has previously worked at pharmaceutical companies in those capacities before founding HIT Global. Paul is President of GAME for 2009 to 2011.
Awards Committee
Lewis Miller, MS
WentzMiller & Associates, LLC
Darien, Connecticut, USA
Lew Miller MS CCMEP is an entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded the Alliance for CME, the Global Alliance for Medical Education and Project Globe Consortium for CPD, all nonprofit organizations; Miller & Fink Corporation and Dowden Health Media, medical publishers and producers of CME and health education for consumers, and Milcom, a medical records company. He is now principal, WentzMiller & Associates, global CME consultants, and chairman, BestPractice CPD.
Development and Finance Committee
Alejandro Aparicio, MD, FACP
Director, Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development
American Medical Association
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Alejandro Aparicio Since 2004 Dr. Aparicio has been the Director of the Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development at the American Medical Association. An Internist and Geriatrician, he has over 20 years experience in CME and is a member of the Rome Group, the EU-North America Committee on CME. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
Lewis Miller, MS
WentzMiller & Associates, LLC
Darien, Connecticut, USA
Lew Miller MS CCMEP is an entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded the Alliance for CME, the Global Alliance for Medical Education and Project Globe Consortium for CPD, all nonprofit organizations; Miller & Fink Corporation and Dowden Health Media, medical publishers and producers of CME and health education for consumers, and Milcom, a medical records company. He is now principal, WentzMiller & Associates, global CME consultants, and chairman, BestPractice CPD.
Robert Orsetti, MA
CME Consultant
Manalapan, New Jersey, USA
Robert F. Orsetti, MA is a certified continuing medical education professional (CCMEP) with 40 years executive management experience in pharmaceutical, academic and medical communication and education organizations. Currently he is a consultant to CME providers, Editor of CE Measure - The Journal of Outcomes Measurement in Continuing Healthcare Education, a member of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, and is the Treasurer of GAME.
Governance and Nominating Committee
Maureen Doyle-Scharff
Senior Director, Medical Education
Pfizer
Delaware, Ohio, USA
Maureen Doyle-Scharff, MBA, FACME joined Pfizer in 2007 where she is a Senior Director in the Medical Education Group. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 18 years, Maureen has held a number of leadership positions including healthcare education, advocacy development, policy and reimbursement, brand management and managed care strategies, all with a particular emphasis on partnerships, continuing medical education and continuing professional development.
Maureen frequently lectures on Provider/Industry Collaboration and Alliance and Advocacy topics, serves on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, (Secretary/Treasurer), and the Global Alliance for Medical Education, is a member of the AMA National Provider/Industry CME Collaboration Taskforce, where she serves as chair of the Public Affairs committee. Additionally, Maureen is past chair of PACME, the Pharmaceutical Alliance for Continuing Medical Education and is a founding member and president of the Ohio Affiliate of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association.
Maureen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and her MBA from St. Joseph University. She currently resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and their three children.
Robert Galbraith, MD
Executive Director, Center for Innovation
National Board of Medical Examiners
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bob Galbraith has 20 years in education, research and clinical work as a Hepatologist, and 15 years in medical assessment. He currently leads the Center for Innovation at the National Board of Medical Examiners, where he is responsible for conceptualizing and testing new forms of measurement.
Hervé Maisonneuve, MD
Directeur Formation Médicale Continue et Médias Scientifiques
Div. rel. scientif. & patients
Paris, France
Hervé Maisonneuve, MD, Associate professor of public health, Paris Sud 11, has worked in the pharma industry for 10 years, and for French public national agencies for 10 years, and with a CME experience in the last 10 years; Hervé has been an editor of medical journals, and has written books on medical writing and health care evaluation; past president of GAME 2006-2009. www.h2mw.eu
International Committee
Bernard Maillet, MD
Secretary General
Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS)
Brussels, Belgium
Ron Murray, EdD
Associate Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Ron Murray directs the University of Virginia's CME Affiliate/Outreach Services program - jointly sponsoring with 32 affiliates representing community hospitals/healthcare organizations at local, state and national levels. He has collaborated in a range of innovative CME projects for national and international audiences, presents regularly at CME conferences and workshops, and has published articles related to CME. He is the current GAME Secretary and has been a volunteer surveyor for the ACCME since 1999.
Marketing Committee
Alfonso Negri, MD
FISM - Italian Federation of Scientific Medical Societies
Milan, Italy
Membership Committee
Celene Chasen
Former Manager of Corporate Relations, Office of Continuing Medical Education
Center for Collaborative & Interactive Technologies
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA
Celene Chasen has been involved in CME for almost seventeen years. She was Manager of Corporate Relations at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in the Office of Continuing Medical Education/Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies. Celene joined GAME in 1999, and has been on the Board of Directors as Membership Chair since 2000. Since that time she has also had the responsibility of planning and coordinating the annual GAME meetings.
Gretchen Keefer
OPTImize
Study Coordinator
Denver, Colorado, USA
Products and Services Committee
Terry A. Dex, Pharm.D.
sanofi-aventis
Senior Director, Medical Education
Basking Ridge, NJ, USA
Terry Dex, PharmD, Sr. Director, Independent Medical Education with 12 years of experience in clinical research and 9 years of experience in independent medical education has worked on both the pharmaceutical as well as the OTC sides of the business at Warner-Lambert, Bayer Consumer Care and now sanofi-aventis in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Terry will be serving as a board member on the products and services committee of GAME.
Program Committee (Annual Meeting)
Paul Piché, BSc, MBA
President, HIT Global Inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paul Piché, BSc, MBA, President and owner of HIT with +20 years of experience in medical research and continuing professional educational programs, has previously worked at pharmaceutical companies in those capacities before founding HIT Global. Paul is President of GAME for 2009 to 2011.
Robert Galbraith, MD
Executive Director, Center for Innovation
National Board of Medical Examiners
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bob Galbraith has 20 years in education, research and clinical work as a Hepatologist, and 15 years in medical assessment. He currently leads the Center for Innovation at the National Board of Medical Examiners, where he is responsible for conceptualizing and testing new forms of measurement.
Hervé Maisonneuve, MD
Directeur Formation Médicale Continue et Médias Scientifiques
Div. rel. scientif. & patients
Paris, France
Hervé Maisonneuve, MD, Associate professor of public health, Paris Sud 11, has worked in the pharma industry for 10 years, and for French public national agencies for 10 years, and with a CME experience in the last 10 years; Hervé has been an editor of medical journals, and has written books on medical writing and health care evaluation; past president of GAME 2006-2009. www.h2mw.eu