GAME Meetings Archive

GAME 2004 Meeting Program



Sunday, June 20: Renaissance Hotel NY Times Square


5:30PM Opening Reception and Registration
Foley's Fish House, Renaissance Hotel, Times Square

6:30PM Welcoming Remarks R. Mark Evans, PhD
President, GAME
Director, Healthcare Education Products
American Medical Association
Keynote Address:
Global Health Challenges
to Continuing Medical Education
Yank D. Coble, Jr., MD
President, World Medical Association

7:30PM Dinner

Monday, June 21: Westin New York Times Square


8:00AM Continental Breakfast

9:00AM Program Overview Frederic S. Wilson
Vice President, GAME
Category Manager, CME
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals

9:10AM CME Around the World: Global Perspectives and Trends
Moderator Lewis A. Miller, MS
GAME Board of Directors
Principal, WentzMiller & Associates, LLC
European Perspective Bernard Maillet, MD
Secretary General
European Union of Medical Specialists
United Kingdom Edwin M. Borman, MB, ChB
Chairman, International Committee
British Medical Association
Spain Manuel Garcia Abad
President, el Grupo Drug Farma
Italy Alfonso Negri, MD
Director of Continuing Medical Education
Italian Pneumonology Society
Sweden Göran Sjönell, MD
Familjeläkare, Medical Director
Familjemedicinska Institutet

10:30AM Coffee Break/Exhibits

11:00AM CME Around the World: Global Perspectives and Trends (cont'd)
Moderator Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA
GAME Board of Directors
Senior Manager, Business Technology
Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
United States Daniel J. Ostergaard, MD
Vice President
International and Interprofessional Activities
American Academy of Family Physicians
Canada Bernard A. Marlow, MD
Director of CME/CPD
College of Family Physicians of Canada
Mexico José Luis Arredondo, MD, PhD
Chief, Clinical Research
National Institute of Pediatrics
Malaysia/Asia Dr R. Krishnan
Malaysian Medical Association
Past-President, Commonwealth Medical Association
Turkey Iskender Sayek, MD
Dean, Medical Faculty and Professor of Surgery
Hacettepe University

12:30PM Buffet Luncheon
GAME Service Recognition for Dennis K. Wentz, MD

2:00PM Reforming and Refinancing CME, Global Implications? Bruce J. Bellande, PhD
Executive Director
Alliance for Continuing Medical Education

2:30PM Issues in CME Accreditation Around the World
Moderator Dennis K. Wentz, MD
Principal, WentzMiller & Associates, LLC
Former Director, AMA CME/CPPD
United States Murray Kopelow, MD, MSC, FRCPC
Chief Executive
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

Daniel Ostergaard, MD
Vice President, International and Interprofessional Activities
American Academy of Family Physicians
Canada Craig Campbell, MD, FRCPC
Director of Professional Development
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Europe Bernard Maillet, MD
Secretary General
European Union of Medical Specialists

4:00PM Coffee Break/Exhibits

4:30PM What's Your "Take-away" for Today?
Interactive Session
Facilitators James Arnott
Secretary, GAME
President, Saber Communications

Göran Sjönell, MD, PhD
Familjeläkare, Medical Director
Familjemedicinska Institutet

5:30PM Adjourn

6:00PM Reception

Tuesday, June 22: Westin New York Times Square


8:00AM Continental Breakfast

9:00AM Overcoming Obstacles to Worldwide Implementation of CME
Moderator Frederic S. Wilson
Vice President, GAME
Category Manager, CME
Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals
Obstacles to International CME Maureen Doyle-Scharff
Executive Director, Professional Alliances
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services
How the Pharmaceutical Industry Can Help Harry Lazarus, PharmD, MRPharmS
Group Executive Director
Professional Relations
Purdue Pharma, L. P.
How Technology Can Help Overcome Roadblocks Jean Lalonde
GAME Board of Directors
Chairman, IC Axon
Case Studies from Europe Thomas Sullivan
CEO, Rockpointe Broadcasting

10:30AM Coffee Break/Exhibits

11:00AM Q & A

12:00PM Concluding Remarks R. Mark Evans, PhD


Followed by GAME Annual Business Meeting. All members are invited to attend.

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