Minutes from April 12, 2007 MBDG Meeting

Meeting Location: Product Action, Indianapolis

Attendees: Pat Parker, Bill White, Bob Kowal, Dennis Gwaltney, Martin Weinstein, Rekha Vyas, Erol Ali Cetinok, John A. Freije, Dane Carter, Mollie Brown, Nadia Fomin, Bridget Robertson, Ian Doll, Jeremy Sokolowski, Jon Speer, Scott Willis

General

• Introductions
• Reviewed action items
  • Parker sent MBDG letter requesting recognition
  • Scott completed survey to determine interest levels for seminar topics
• Reviewed mission statement
• Discussed that our group intends to serve the Midwest, and broad biomedical scope
• Encourage participants to email coworkers and invite others to our group
• Reviewed the officer election
• We are the 5^th biomedical discussion group in the states
• National convention in October
• ASQ biomed internet resources reviewed
• Willis has been sending out emails. Add co-workers names to the email list by sending him an email. Asked for feedback on emails
• Parker to attend Biomedical Leadership conference; Freije may attend as well.
• Willis reviewed survey results.

Seminar Discussion

• Barry Craner offered to speak on risk management.
• Group agreed to focus on CAPA and risk management initially.
• All day seminar too much for the group initially
• Could break topics e.g. CAPA into sub discussions
• Formats – round table format popular with other DG’s. Webinar format may be tool we could use.
• CAPA lead / program chair – John – target September 2007 (Note: Tentative based on MDBG Meeting Format Discussion – see below)
• CAPA co program chair – Pat
• Risk Management lead / program chair – Risk Management
• Potential to attract other ASQ groups to some seminars. For example, the military group would be interested in risk management topics, and groups could learn from each other.

MBDG Meeting Format Discussion

• Group agreed to strengthen ‘discussion’ content of group
• Meetings will be centered around an informal discussion of biomedical topic
• Discussion will lead to seminar if needed
• Group discussion will educate members, and allow us to tailor the presentation to the focus on the areas of the topic we need.
• Keep the discussions focused on biomedical issues
• Discuss best practices
• Break into small groups if needed
• Allow for concluding discussion at the end including what worked and what didn’t work
• Break CAPA into small elements e.g. root cause analysis, corrective action, etc.
• Need a facilitator to lead effective discussions

General Information

• Clinivation offers free webinars that are interesting. For more information, go to http://clinivation.com/pages/global/freeevents. . .

• Product Action giving a seminar on supplier management. For more information, go to http://www.imdmc.org/meetings.html

Action Items

• Freije / Send information on webinar
• Freije / Develop program outline / proposal for September 2007
• Mandell / How do we get RUs for program participants
• Freije / Identify 4 – 5 high-level CAPA topics
• Willis / Send out communication and solicit feedback on high-level CAPA topics to MBDG participants
• Speer / Send proposed MBDG budget to ASQ Biomedical Division treasurer:
• Leadership Team / Establish agenda, location, and logistics for 5/24/2007 MBDG meeting. Assign the facilitator for the next meeting’s discussion

Next Meeting May 24^th at 6:00PM. We will meet in the Administration Building on the Roche campus shown as Building A. It is accessible from Hague Road by turning in to gate 2, also indicated on the map. Bldg A is then it is the first building on the right. Visitor parking is in front of the building.