For the last interview of our “10 Years in 10 Minutes” series, I had a chance to talk with Scott Bradbury, Vice President of Education at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, who was part of the panel for our Tech Tools We Can’t Live Without session in the fall of 2014. While I was happy for an opportunity to catch up with Scott, I rewatched the session with some trepidation. I honestly could not remember what “tech tools” each of the panelists discussed and had some concern that 10 years on, one of them might have made a recommendation equivalent to “Betamax is the wave of the future!!” I should note that around this same period of time, I did a presentation where I recommended people start using Screenr, Google+ Hangouts On-Air, and SlideShare. The first two no longer exist and few people still use the third one. You can understand my concern.

Fortunately, the panel for our “Tech Tools” session was much more knowledgeable than I, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the tools recommended during the session are still in use today. For his part, Scott focused on a small little tool that some of you techy types may have heard of before called YouTube. It’s done a little better than Screenr over the past 10 years.

Join Scott and I as we talk about what he’s been up to in his role with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, his experience with the early days of CMEpalooza, and a more modern tech tool that he can’t live with out. I managed to keep this one much closer to the 10 minute mark, so a pat on the back for me.

When Derek and I came up with the idea for our Tin Anniversary “10 Years in 10 Minutes” series earlier this year, it forced us to take a look back at some of our old agendas to see where everyone from 2014 had meandered professionally since then. Some people had jumped around to multiple organizations; very, very few were still with the same employer.

Allison Gardner, PhD, is one of those few who have stayed put – she recently celebrated her 15th year with Med-IQ. Allison has certainly taken on more responsibility since her CMEpalooza debut, though we’ll only take part of the credit for her professional ascension.

While we didn’t have time to talk about Allison’s undoubtedly fascinating 2007 paper entitled “CaMKII can participate in but is not sufficient for the establishment of the membrane block to polyspermy in mouse eggs” (it’s sadly behind a paywall), we did have time to banter about her earliest CMEpalooza experiences, the need to be prepared in educational emergencies, and those balmy Chicago winters.

As a welcome back treat to all who attended the Alliance Industry Summit earlier in the week, we have the next edition of our 10 Years in 10 Minutes interview series for you today. For this episode, our guest is old longtime friend of CMEpalooza, Karen Roy, CEO and co-founder of infograph-ed.

Karen is such a pleasure to talk to that I lost track of time, and this ended up being closer to 10 years in 15 minutes. My apologies in advance for not closely adhering to a self-imposed arbitrary time limit that was established mostly so we could have a clever title. It’s well worth it, I promise.

So, come for Karen’s thoughts on how the topic of her original CMEpalooza Fall session on publishing CME outcomes has evolved over the past 10 years, but stay for the cheesesteak discussion at the end, including one truly horrifying revelation. (note from Scott: I know that Derek thinks Karen’s admission is the truly horrifying revelation, but I was more shocked by Derek’s tidbit. People have gotten seriously hurt for that faux pas!)