Our 10 a.m. ET session at CMEpalooza Fall is titled “Why Did My Grant Request Get Rejected?” which, I think, is pretty direct and self-explanatory. Our panel’s goal for this session is to answer as many of your questions as possible about the grant review process. In order to do so, we would love to try and get a bunch of questions from the CME community ahead of time so we can see some of the common themes and know how to best prepare our panelists. We really want this to be a participant-driven session and our panel will do their best to directly address as many of the questions as they can.

If you have ever had a question about the grant review process — be it about the budget, application, outcomes, etc. — now is your chance to ask it. Just fill out the (extremely) simple survey below. And no, smart guy, your question cannot be “Why did my grant request get rejected?”

The blog’s been a bit quiet lately as we took a little break due to summer vacation schedules and Scott’s rigorous touring schedule as the sixth member of One Direction. However, I’m thrilled to be back in the blogging saddle to announce PlatformQ as our latest CMEpalooza Fall Gold Sponsor! PlatformQ is sponsoring our lunchtime session (lunch on the east coast, breakfast on the west coast) which is titled Expanding the Focus: Patient Education from CME Providers. We’ve put together an excellent panel for this session and I think it should be a fascinating discussion. You can read more details about this session and the rest of the agenda on our CMEpalooza Fall agenda page.

While we’re on the topic of our sponsors, please allow me a brief moment to acknowledge and thank our new and returning sponsors:

NEW

• Gold
  • PlatformQ
•  Silver
  • Educational Measures (OK, not a new sponsor, but a new silver sponsor)
• Bronze
  • PVI
  • Thistle Editorial, LLC

RETURNING

• Gold
  • Genentech
• Silver
  • Imedex
  • MedPageToday
• Bronze
  • Clinical Care Options
  • CMEology
  • Forefront Collaborative
  • HighMarksCE
  • Vindico Medical Education

Please visit our sponsor page to find out more about each of these companies. For more information on becoming a CMEpalooza sponsor, please check out our sponsorship prospectus.

I’m not lying — it is coming soon. We’ve got our top interns working on it as I type. Look — here’s one proofreading Scott’s work.

On the other hand, the guy we hired to work with all our faculty has been slacking off lately. Here he is supposedly following-up with everyone involved in our CME Pecha Kucha.

I mean, Miller Chill? Gross. He could have at least gone with a microbrew.

Anyway, we hope to have the agenda up on the website within the next week or two. We’re just finalizing a few things and then we should be good to make it all public. In the meantime, don’t forget about our first CMEpalooza Company Spotlight coming up next week on Wednesday, June 24 from noon-12:30 p.m. ET with Educational Measures in the spotlight. Scott will be leading the proceedings, but I’ve seen the agenda and it should be an interesting conversation, especially for those of you interested in the use of technology in education. Join us!