enGINe June 2013
The newsletter is available both as a pdf as well as readable online (via the below links).
Important dates
| G-I-N Conference 2013 | 18 - 21 August 2013 |
| G-I-N AM |
18 August 2013 |
Editorial
Back to Basics. An editorial from Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH: G-I-N Trustee and Newsletter Editor. In the March 2013 newsletter, G-I-N Vice Chair Frode Forland raised the provocative Editorialquestion “What should be the ‘one big thing’ that is the role of G-I-N?” As we enter G-I-N’s second decade of existence the question is more timely than ever. [...]
Chair's report
It is May and time is flying by. I wanted to keep you in the loop and give you a mid-term report highlighting what the Board of Trustees has been doing and summarize decisions that we have made since I became the Chair last August. [...]
G-I-N 2013 update
When this newsletter hits your inbox, there will only be just over 10 weeks to go until the conference. All abstract authors have now been notified
and the sessions are being scheduled, as are all of the plenary sessions. [...]
Focus on San Francisco 2012 from the Kaiser Permanente team
There is so much to see and do in San Francisco! To help you maximize your enjoyment of the city while you are attending the G-I-N 2013 Conference, we conducted a rapid review of sights and social events in August. Below we highlight some opportunities to experience San Francisco’s scenic beauty,
diverse neighborhoods, restaurants and cultural attractions. [...]
Introducing New Members
We are delighted to welcome lots of new members, who have joined since February 2013 and we are pleased to share some information on our new additions. [...]
News from the network
Collaboration opportunity / Calls for Interest. Guideline Implementability Tool (GItool) Directory. The African Cochrane Indaba. [...]
Invited article on co-morbidities
As part of the G-I-N North America Webinar Series, Anand Parekh, MD, MPH, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, presented in January 2013 on multiple chronic conditions as part of guideline development and implementation. In the brief invited article that
follows he addresses the G-I-N community on the importance of this topic and invites North American to share experience. [...]
International Guideline Library update
New Publications published in the International Guideline Library – 04th March to 13th May 2013. Editor’s pick from the guidelines library update. Standards for Clinical Practice Guidelines. [...]
External Events
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Watch for the next issue
The next edition of enGINe is to be published in early September 2013.
As always the enGINe would like to know more about you!
Please get in touch to tell us about you, your organisation, your work programme, your ambitions. Perhaps even your problems – the G-I-N community could have the answers you are looking for!
If you wish to include some information in the next issue please send your pieces by Tuesday 3rd September 2013 to office@g-i-n.net.
