Workshop Agenda

Workshop on Information and Communications Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century 

National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 

Douglas J. Raber, National Research Council Ronald Breslow, Matthew V. Tirrell, Co-Chairs, Steering Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century Richard C. Alkire, Mark A. Ratner, Co-Chairs, Information Communications Workshop Committee James R. Heath, University of California, Los Angeles The Current State of the Art in Nanoscale and Molecular Information Technologies DISCUSSION 

Thom H. Dunning, Jr., Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee 

Information Communication Technologies and Chemical Science Technology 

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The workshop agenda and workbook can be found at www.fda.gov/cder/calendar/meeting/phrma52002/ default.htm and www.fda.gov/cder/calendar/ meeting/phrma52002 / workbook.pdf, respectively. 

First and foremost, diversity is valuing our uniqueness. It has already been pointed out in this workshop that diversity is not just defined in terms of race or ethnicity, but also should be extended to reflect other measures of difference, including sex, age, nationality, cultural heritage, sexual orientation, etc. As I prepared for this presentation, it was unclear to me what the workshop organizers had in mind as they used the term diversity in setting today s agenda. I cannot possibly address all measures of diversity, due to time constraints, but instead chose to focus on a few of the more common topics, namely, race and sex. However, I want to assure the audience that we at P G view diversity in its broadest sense and work very hard to value all of its components. 

Thomas Manuel, Council for Chemical Research, Inc. It s important to iterate some of the things that are implicit in some of the talks here that would refer to what I call a social dimension of collaboration. And the first one is that if you look at the agenda of this workshop, it s sliced into bilateral pieces. The fact is that most collaboration and the most fruitful and the greatest trend for the future is going to be tri- if not multilateral. This is implicit in Professor Wakeham s presentation. 

Recent examples of workshop topics at our two annual UKCPA symposia included sessions on compliance/ concordance, PlLs, off-label use of medicines, medication errors and ADR reporting. For the future, clinical governance and all its implications are high on the agenda and, to paraphrase the definition, we intend to help.... create an environment in which pharmaceutical care will flourish. 

Rose, G. D. (2003). A long day s journey into simplicity. Talk given at the International Workshop on Proteomics Protein Structure and Interactions (May 5-16) at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Pubhshed online http /agenda.ictp.tricstc.it/smr.php 1499. ... 

Summaries of these presentations are presented in the main body of the report. A full agenda for the workshop may be found in Appendix D. The organizing committee integrated the input from the presentations and breakout sessions to develop this report. 

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