This week we truly begin our “5 Minutes With…” video series with the person who I personally thought wrote the most entertaining abstract of all those submitted — Jason Olivieri. Jason is the Manager of Outcome Services at Imedex and will be presenting at 11 AM ET on Secrets of CME Outcome Assessment…Revealed. We had an action-packed five minutes with Jason, which included:

• A story of criminal masterminds collecting chemical waste
• My lovely co-producer and moderator Scott going AWOL for a few minutes during the middle of the video
• Jason’s bird voicing his opinion in the background
• The word “sexier” being used to describe Level 7 outcomes

Check out Jason’s video below:

We are now just a shade under one month away from CMEpalooza Spring (yikes!), so we thought it would be a good time to introduce a new feature on the blog called “5 Minutes With…”. These will be quick interviews with an individual from each of the CMEpalooza Spring sessions and we’ll be asking them each two questions:

1. What is your CME story?
2. What can we expect from your CMEpalooza Spring session?

To kick things off, I forced Scott to do a “5 Minutes With…Scott Kober” session so we could practice. He was less than thrilled about it, but was a good sport and did a nice job. I, on the other hand, am battling a vicious cold which has left me stuffed up and a little loopy and prone to ramble (at least, that’s what I’m blaming it on…). Anyway, here’s the video. Enjoy!

10. What else are you going to do, work? hahahahahahahahaha!

9. Count how many times I mispronounce our sponsors names (sorry Vivacity Consulting).

8. Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Brian McGowan and Karen Roy, the only people who have participated in each iteration of CMEpalooza!

7. Celebrity guest stars a la Love Boat (note: in this scenario, I am Captain Stubings; Scott is Gopher).

6. Audible snoring from my 12-year-old labradoodle Barkley (yes, named after Charles Barkley), who sleeps the entire day in his bed next to my desk.

5. Let’s take a break from this list and address the issue of the color of this dress. It is gold and white and I’ll hear no other arguments. Now resuming our regularly scheduled Top 10 list.

4. There will be several sessions on outcomes, so, you know what that means??? MOORE’S LEVELS OF OUTCOMES DRINKING GAME!!!

3. If enough people tune in, maybe this is the year we can convince Scott to close out the conference with a rousing edition of Danke Schoen.

2. The incredible agenda and amazing presenters, duh.

1. You can watch at home in your slippers and pajamas.