I’m thrilled to announce the latest addition to the CMEpalooza agenda, Patient-level Outcomes: Dos and Don’ts, Whys and Hows by Greg Salinas, PhD, Director of Research and Assessment Services, CE Outcomes, LLC.

This brings the total number of presentations to ten, which, I have to admit, blows me away. Several people have asked me if there is still room for more presentations. Absolutely! That’s the beauty of a virtual conference – I can add as many presentations as I want. There’s still plenty of room for more sessions on March 20 and if that fills up (which I doubt will happen), I can just extend it to the next day. So, yes, there’s still room for more presentations. Please feel free to submit your idea, but remember, the deadline to submit is one week away (Feb. 1). Might as well submit it now!

Just a reminder for all of you attending the Alliance conference (#acehp14) in Orlando this week to keep CMEpalooza in mind while all those brilliant new ideas are percolating around in your head. The deadline for abstract submissions for CMEpalooza is February 1, which was done intentionally to give people time after the Alliance conference to submit their ideas. Feel free to contact me with any questions!

I hadn’t planned on establishing a set deadline for presentation submissions, but with further consideration, decided it might be for the best in order to provide an agenda with times for each presentation in advance. A number of people who are hoping to tune in to CMEpalooza have been asking about the times for specific presentations so they can set their schedules accordingly.  So, in the name of good customer service, I’m setting January 31 as the deadline for presentation submissions. It would be great to get them even earlier than that, but I know how some of you people work. So there you are – a deadline to shoot for. (Truth be told, if you contact me on March 1 with a presentation idea, I’ll probably still say yes, but don’t tell anyone I said that…)

As it currently stands, we have 255 minutes of confirmed presentation time scheduled, which my calculator tells me is 4 hours and 15 minutes. I have four other individuals who have given verbal commitments to present (you know who you are!) but have not yet officially submitted their presentations. That still leaves plenty of time for additional presentations to fill out the rest of the day. If you have an idea in mind that you want to run by me before submitting, feel free to send it my way.

And lastly, there’s no truth to the rumor that I’ll be changing the name of CMEpalooza to CMEpalooka, despite what I may have (accidentally) tweeted out in the past. Blast you, auto correct!!!