Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Countdown for AHRMM11

It is hard to believe that in just 4 days I will be jetting my way from the sunny South to the not-quite-as-hot Northeast. With temperatures this week in Alabama at and above 100 degrees, I am ready for the 70-80 degrees expected in Boston next week.

My first Conference was in 1994 at the 32nd American Society for Healthcare Materials Management in Ft Worth, Texas. Now, 17 years later and a new name, Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management, I look forward to this year's meeting with as much anticipation as my first. This year also marks the 15th Annual Golf Tournament, which is sponsored by McKesson this year.

The Learning Labs this year have eight different tracks and a few changes are noted. The "Distribution" Learning Lab is now called "Logistics" and a brand new "Research" Learning Lab is being offered with three sessions. These sessions will give all attendees the opportunity to choose learning tracks best suited to their needs. With such a wide variety offered, every AHRMM member should have no trouble planning their days of learning.

The three planned General Sessions speakers are all outstanding and should be of great interest to all attendees.

I appreciate the opportunity to blog this year- have spent 3 years on the "Issues and Legislation" Committee ( including one year as Committee Chair), I was beginning to feel a little "out of the loop" without my committee work. I hope my blogs will be informative and interesting.

I have a full week at work - trying to ready the storeroom and my staff with my scheduled off week at AHRMM. If each day is as busy as Monday and Tuesday have shown to be, this will be one wild week!

I plan to write a blog for each session I attend so I may have several short blogs or a long one or two.

Now it is back to work here before AHRMM11 this weekend!

Nancy J Webber, MPH, CMRP

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