What do you think of when you think of spring?

Baseball? Hot dogs? Apple pie?

Yes, maybe (more July 4th), and probably not (apple pie is so 20th century).

But what about CMEpalooza? Of course, our event is now a staple of the spring, and we’re fortunate that Genentech’s Caroline Robinson will be combining two of our favorite spring pastimes in her upcoming session How Strong is Your Bullpen?

Since Caroline’s session with Kathleen Moreo from PRIME Education is our Gold Sponsored lunch session, feel free to indulge in whatever springtime culinary favorite you’d like.

For a sneak peek of her session, check out Caroline’s video below.

We are now exactly 1 week away from CMEpalooza Spring, and what better way to celebrate than with a sneak peek into crowd favorite Jason Olivieri’s presentation, A Dissection of Feasible Interpretive Tangents From a Discrete Comparative Assessment in CME (aka: What Does My Outcomes Data Mean?) Jason will be joining the exclusive 3-Time CMEpalooza Presenter club, and we are thrilled to have him back again.

As a warm-up to Jason’s session next week, I recommend first viewing his session from CMEpalooza Spring 2015, Secrets of CME Outcome Assessment…Revealed. As you can see, he has a flair for creatively titled sessions, which he combines nicely with practical tips that really pull in the audience. Watch that one, then check out the overview of his next session below.

In the “classic” baseball movie Field of Dreams (I put “classic” in quotations because I know some of you will balk at the suggestion), James Earl Jones suggests to Kevin Costner that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. I will suggest to you, dear reader, that the one constant through all the years of CME programming we have had, is…how do I get people to respond to my dang surveys!?

OK, maybe I’m being a little facetious, but for as long as I have been working in CME (going on 15 years now), response rates to surveys has been a problem. We’re all constantly looking for new, cost-effective ways to get an increased number of people to complete our surveys, evaluations, etc. With that in mind, I’m really looking forward to Boyce Byerly’s 10:30 AM ET CMEpalooza session on Improving Response Rates on CME Surveys. Check out our “Sneak Peek” video with Boyce below for a nice summary of what he’ll be covering.

Side note: proving once again that I will never be a professional moderator, this video starts out a little abruptly as I forgot to tell everyone when we were going live and I had just finished shushing them when the video starts. As usual, I look like a doofus.