Focus on Performance: Partnering for Business Success
May 19-23, 2008 | New Orleans, Louisiana
Conference | Exhibition | Courses

Download brochure (1.06 MB) Whether you are a full-time professional trainer assigned to the training function or a manager or supervisor who delivers or develops training, you need to be prepared to train your staff to perform their jobs properly and stay compliant. Join colleagues and connect with thought leaders at the 2008 PDA Biennial Training Conference and take home the knowledge and skills you need to train your workforce. The conference is designed for anyone with training responsibilities in the bio/pharmaceutical industry and will provide the most current information needed to strengthen your training expertise. Training and medical device experts and FDA representatives will provide valuable insight on how to: Implement best training practices in a highly regulated environment Improve the performance of your employees Apply the latest training trends and techniques Inform your team of the most current regulatory requirements Complementing the conference are PDA Training and Research Institute (PDA TRI) training courses and an exhibition featuring vendors who provide excellent services in support of training efforts.

Keynote Presentations Opening Keynote Presentation – E-Learning: What Works and Why Tom Reeves, PhD, Professor, Instructional Technology, University of Georgia E-Learning has enormous potential to enhance the effectiveness, impact, and return-on-investment (ROI) of training in the pharmaceutical industry. To successfully use technology in the pharmaceutical industry requires careful alignment of eight critical factors: 1) business goals, 2) objectives related to knowledge, skills and attitudes, 3) content, 4) instructional design, 5) learner tasks, 6) instructor roles, 7) technological affordances, and 8) assessment. This presentation will demonstrate several examples of exemplary practice in the design and implementation of e-learning in the pharmaceutical and related regulated industries. Closing Keynote Presentation – Six Sigma as a Tool to Support Instructional System Design (ISD) Kaliym Islam, Vice President of Customer Training and Information Products, Depository Clearing Corporation In order to improve the performance of an organization, the workers’ performance in that organization must first be improved. However, business dictates that if the cost to improve the performance of the workers is more than the financial benefit of the improvement itself, than the cost of the improvement cannot be justified. Kaliym Islam, Vice President of Customer Training and Information Products for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation will examine cost-cutting ways to improve a worker’s performance during his a keynote presentation, Six Sigma as a Tool to Support Instructional System Design (ISD). Who Should Attend Department Compliance | Executive Management | Human Resources | Quality Assurance/Quality Control | Regulatory Affairs | Technical Operations | Process Validation | Training Level of Expertise Mid- and Upper-level managers and supervisors | Directors | Executive management | Trainers Job Function Performance improvement | Organizational learning | Documentation | IT | Procedures Staff/departmental training PDA Web Seminar - Operator Qualification Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Speaker: Brian Krenc, Site Training Lead, MedImmune Vaccines This Web Seminar will cover the basic principles of establishing an operator qualification program. After a brief discussion of the rationale for a comprehensive operator training program, the Web Seminar will cover the fundamentals of curricula design, with a concentration on implementing curricula that satisfy positional, company and regulatory requirements. The discussion will then move to operator qualification, with a concentration on the four distinct phases of the operator qualification. The session will also examine the process for the selection of qualified trainers, placing an emphasis on those qualities that set effective trainers apart from those who are less effective. The session will conclude with a discussion about how to maintain your operator training program. Contact For conference inquiries, please contact: Jason Brown Programs Manager Tel: +1 (301) 656-5900 ext. 131 Fax: +1 (301) 986-0296 Email: brown@pda.org For registration inquiries, please contact: Patresa Day Assistant Manager, Registration and Customer Service Tel: +1 (301) 656-5900 ext. 115 Fax: +1 (301) 986.0296 Email: day@pda.org For Web Seminar inquiries, please contact: Paula Pagano Senior Manager, Programs and Web Seminars Tel: +1 (301) 656-5900 ext. 149 Fax: +1 (301) 986-0296 Email: pagano@pda.org