Sit down, grab a cup of coffee (splash of cream, no sugar), pull up a chair, and spend “5 Minutes With…Greselda Butler.” Greselda is Manager, Professional Education at Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc., and is moderating the 10 a.m. CMEpalooza Spring session, Let the Sun Shine In: Perspectives and Insights on the Implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. If for nothing else, you should tune in for these two reasons alone:

1. Hear Greselda confirm that this session will be more than just a discussion about meals. I think we’ve all had enough of that to last a lifetime.
2. Hear Scott correctly pronounce “Otsuka.” I was duly impressed.

Check out the video below.

Today we spend a few minutes with Wendy Turell, DrPH, Senior Director, CME Outcomes and Analytics, PlatformQ Health. Wendy is a CMEpalooza veteran — having participated in the original CMEpalooza last year — and is making her triumphant return to CMEpalooza Spring with a solo session on 5 Tips to Make You a Survey Measurement Rock Star. Check out our interview with Wendy below to learn a little more about her session and find out how she got started in CME (SPOILER ALERT: she didn’t start out her career with a plan to work in CME. Shocking, I know.)

As a side note — yes, the video does extend beyond the supposed 5 minute time limit indicated in the title. I had things perfectly on track until Scott threw in a last second question that screwed up my timing, so blame him. Perhaps we should rename these “5-ish Minutes With…”

It’s always nice when our moderators get into the spirit of our ultra-casual dress code, but no one has quite nailed it like Kurt Boyce, our recent guest in the CMEpalooza Spring “5 Minutes With…” preview series. Kurt, who currently serves as Director of CME & Compliance at Applied Clinical Education, will be part of a 2-person team that will present during the 1 p.m. ET session on the topic of Achieving Level 7 Outcomes: A MEC Perspective.

Kurt has a long history in CME, which he talks about in our “hard-hitting” interview.

Among other gems, you’ll find out:

• What CME was like in the late 1980s (yes, there was actually a precursor to PowerPoint that cost thousands of dollars every time you used it)
• How Kurt has gone from designing education to measure Level 1 outcomes to designing education to measure Level 7 outcomes during the span of his career
• How smart Derek seems when he isn’t talking (he doesn’t say a word the whole time but just smiles glumly — he must have been following the Phillies getting shut out once more in spring training on his iPhone)

Check out Kurt’s video below: