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Trainings, conferences, and other activities in the medical industry and related fields.

Updated: January 31, 2012



FEBRUARY 2012
3 VBA 2012 Winter Meeting; Wintergreen, VA. www.vabiomed.org
4-8 Critical Care Congress, Houston, TX. Society of Critical Care Medicine www.sccm.org
7 Webinar: Rigid Sterilization Containers: Best Practices, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
8 CE-IT Community Online Town Hall Meeting. This topic for this free online meeting is Medical Device Data Systems and IEC 80001.www.ceitcollaboration.org
13-14 AAMI Standards Week; Orlando, FL. www.aami.org
20-24 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; Washington, DC. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
20-24 HIMSS 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition; Las Vegas, NV. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society www.himss.org
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MARCH 2012
4-7

2012 PDC Summit; Phoenix, AZ. ASHE American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association www.ashe.org/PDC/

4-12 National Patient Safety Awareness Week www.npsf.org/hp/psaw/
12-14 2012 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Bridging the Gap; Baltimore, MD. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
14 CE-IT Community Online Town Hall Meeting. The topic for this free online meeting is The Current State of Medical Connectivity. www.ceitcollaboration.org
19-22 Congress on Healthcare Leadership; Chicago, IL. American College of Healthcare Executives. www.ache.org
21-22

AAMI/FDA International Conference on Medical Device Standards & Regulation; Hyatt Dulles Hotel, Herndon, VA (near Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport)

24-29

SIR 37th Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Society of Interventional Radiology www.sirmeeting.org

24-29

59th AORN Congress; New Orleans, LA. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses www.aorn.org

26-28 Design Control Requirements and Industry Practice; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
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APRIL 2012
2-4 Software Validation Requirements and Industry Practice; Silver Spring, MD, CA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
3 Webinar: Keeping Patients Safe: Guidance for Preparation and Quality Management of Fluids for Hemodialysis, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
5 2012 Latin America Compliance Conference; Miami, FL. AdvaMed
11 CE-IT Community Online Town Hall Meeting. The topic for the free online meeting is Connecting Physiological Monitoring Systems to Hospital Networks. www.ceitcollaboration.org
11-13 Spring 2012 MD Expo, Fort Lauderdale, FL. mdexposhow.com/spring/
16-18 Process Validation Requirements and Industry Practice; Arlington, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
23-27 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; San Francisco, CA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
26 Webinar: Introduction to Valid Statistical Techniques for Process Validation, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
28-May 2 Annual Meeting 2012; Albuquerque, NM. IAHCSMM www.iahcsmm.org
29-May1 ATA2012: 17th Annual International Meeting and Exhibition; San Jose, CA. www.americantelemed.org
29-May 2

43rd National Symposium; Orlando, FL. American Nephrology Nurses's www.annanurse.org

29-May 2

IAHCSMM Annual Conference & Expo, Albuquerque, NM. www.iahcsmm.org

29-May 4 2012 ARRS Annual Meeting; Vancouver, BC. American Roentgen Ray Society www.arrs.org
30-2 Integrating Risk Management into the Quality System; Silver Spring, MD. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
30-May 3 58th Annual Technical Meeting and Exposition of IEST; Orlando, FL. www.iest.org
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MAY 2012
2-4 VNAA 30th Annual Meeting; Phoenix, AZ. Visiting Nurse Associations of America. www.vnaa.org
6 AHA Annual Meeting; Washington, DC. www.aha.org
6-12 National Hospital Week
6-12 National Nurses Week - National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale's birthday www.ana.org
7-9 Human Factors for Medical Devices; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
8-11 Industrial Sterilization for Medical Devices; Minneapolis, MN. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
9 Webinar: Introduction to Valid Statistical Techniques for Design Control, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
10-11 Corrective and Preventive Action Requirements and Industry Practice; Silver Spring, MD. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
14-16 Safety Assurance Cases for Medical Devices; Arlington, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
15-17 Workshop: Software Validation: Tools and Techniques; Orlando, FL. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
17-19 2012 Annual Meeting; Orlando, FL. Arthroscopy Association of North America www.aana.org
19-24 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition - 2012; Orlando, FL. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses www.aacn.org
21-23 World Congress on Quality and Improvement; Anaheim, CA. American Society for Quality http://wcqi.asq.org/2012/
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JUNE 2012
2-4 2012 AAMI Annual Conference and Expo; Charlotte, NC. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
4-6 Purchasing Controls and Supply Chain Management; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
4-6 APIC 2012; San Antonio, TX. American. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. www.apic.org
11-14 NFPA Conference & Expo; Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV. National Fire Protection Association www.nfpa.org
11-15 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; Orlando, FL. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
14-16

ASAIO 58th Annual Conference; San Francisco, California. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs www.asaio.com

23-27 2012 AWHONN Convention; Washington DC. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses www.awhonn.org
23-27 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics; Montreal, Canada. www.ni2012.org
28 - July 1 2012 ASRT Educational Symposium and Annual Governance and House of Delegates Meeting; Las Vegas, NV. American Society of Radiologic Technologists www.asrt.org
30 - July 3 ASE 2012; National Harbor, MD. American Society of Echocardiography www.asecho.org
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JULY 2012
15-18 49th Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition; San Antonio, TX. The American Society for Healthcare Engineering of the American Hospital Association www.ashe.org
18-21 AAMSE 2011 Annual Conference; Los Angeles, CA. American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE) www.aamse.org
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AUGUST 2012
17-18 CABMET Symposium; Aurora, CO. www.cabmet.org
22-23 Clinical Engineering Association of Illinois Annual Conference; Oakbrook, IL. www.ceaiweb.org
28 - Sep 01 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2012); San Diego, CA. http://embc2012.embs.org
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SEPTEMBER 2012
10-12 Integrating Risk Management into the Quality System; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
11-14 North Carolina Biomedical Association Symposium; Concord, NC. www.ncbiomedassoc.com
15-16

Medicine 2.0'12: 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine, Health & Biomedical Research, Boston, MA. Medicine 2.0

8-12 Workshop: Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization for Medical Devices; Las Vegas, NV. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
17-21 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org

OCTOBER 2012
1-3 AdvaMed 2012: The Med Tech Conference; Boston, MA. AdvaMed http://advamed2012.com/
1-3 Process Validation Requirements and Industry Practice; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
2-5 Radiation Sterilization for Medical Devices; Denver, CO. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
8-10 Document Control and Records Management for Medical Devices; Phoenix, AZ. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
8-10 Software Validation: Tools and Techniques; San Francisco, CA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
8-12 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; Dublin, Ireland. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
9-13 World Standards Week ANSI www.ansi.org
14-20 Central Service Week www.iahcsmm.org
15-17 Statistical Methods and Tools for a Quality System; Las Vegas, NV. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
22-24 Safety Assurance Cases for Medical Devices; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
22-26 HFES 56th Annual Meeting; Boston, MA. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society www.hfes.org
24-27 BMES 2012 Annual Meeting; Atlanta, GA. Biomedical Engineering Society www.bmes.org
26-30 2012 RAPS: The Regulatory Convergence; Seattle, WA. Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society www.raps.org
29-31 Design Control Requirements and Industry Practice; Arlington, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org

NOVEMBER 2012
25-30 RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL. www.rsna.org
7-9 Human Factors for Medical Devices; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
12-13 Purchasing Controls and Supply Chain Management; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
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DECEMBER 2012
3-5 Quality System Requirements and Industry Practice; Alexandria, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
3-7 Design Control Requirements and Industry Practice; Arlington, VA. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (800) 332-2264, fax (703) 525-1424, www.aami.org
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JANUARY 2013
12-16 SLAS2013; Orlando, FL. Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening www.labautomation.org
19-23 Critical Care Congress; San Juan, Puerto Rico. Society of Critical Care Medicine www.sccm.org
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