The next victim is our special “10 Years in 10 Minutes” interview series is Pam Beaton, currently living abroad as the Global Head of Medical Education, Grants, Sponsorships, and Collaborative Partnerships at Boehringer Ingelheim. Pam is also currently on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions.

At the initial CMEpalooza Spring back in 2014, Pam was working at the American College of Chest Physicians and presented on the topic of EACCME Made Easy, where she shared her (at the time) recent experience with European accreditation. Of course, it was this presentation that set the stage for her eventual move to Germany once everyone saw how adroitly Pam was able to straddle worlds separated by the Atlantic Ocean. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

On today’s interview, we talk about Pam’s experiences as a novice virtual presenter, some of today’s ongoing intricacies with European accreditation, and the wonders of the Christmas markets in Germany.

Next up on our 10 Years in 10 Minutes interview series is my friend and former colleague from two different stops on our CME journey (Thomas Jefferson University and Pfizer) Beth Brillinger. Beth’s presentation at the first CMEpalooza was on Activity Planning: Improving the Process to Align with Accreditation Criteria and wrapped up in a crisp 16 minutes. While I would never go back to the days of letting presenters choose any random length of time for their presentations, there definitely is something to be said for the type of short informative sessions that Beth and a couple of others did. Maybe instead of eight 1-hour sessions we should do thirty-two 15-minute session? I can hear Scott grinding his teeth from here…

We cover the standard topics during the interview, along with a quick career check-in. Anyone who knows Beth knows she is longtime motorhead, so I couldn’t help finishing up the interview with a little Formula 1 talk. Check out the full interview below.

Today, we continue our special Tin Anniversary “10 Years in 10 Minutes” feature by catching up with Dr. Erik Brady. Erik is one of the lucky/unlucky ones (depends on your perspective) who escaped the clutches of CME and now serves as the Chief Operations Leader of Biomedical Graduate Programs at Wake Forest University.

Back in the early days of CMEpalooza, however, Erik was entrenched in the world of outcomes and data mining. His initial CMEpalooza contribution was entitled “’Excel’lent Tricks for the Non-Expert: Exploring the Beauty of the Cells.” What an incredibly witty title.

In today’s interview, Erik returns to his CME roots by reflecting on his initial meeting of the introverted minds with Derek, his curious love of all “black and gold” colleges, and how he still points colleagues to his initial CMEpalooza session as a learning tool. Some things just never go out of style (please ignore my fancy hoodie here – my stylist took the day off).