Committee Chair: Peter Stokman
Board Liaison: Peter Stokman
The SCDM European Steering Committee started in 2014 with the remit to raise the profile of SCDM in Europe and bring a European flavor to the SCDM. In a concrete sense this meant that a legendary series of annual SCDM Leadership Forum meetings started: small scale meetings (50-70 attendees) focusing on bringing together CDM leadership in Europe – and later also the Middle East & Africa – to discuss strategic, technological & regulatory developments within Clinical Development, and their impact on Clinical Data Management.
These meetings evolved into the ‘SCDM EMEA conferences’ (next one coming up 23-25 October, Berlin, Germany), targeting a wider but still very experienced audience, with an emphasis on ‘interaction’ – to leverage the vast experience & insight of expert speakers & audience alike.
However: the SCDM EMEA Steering Committee is a regional chapter of the SCDM, and as such, there is so much more to do then set up our annual SCDM EMEA Conference! There are many more roles we want to play within the global SCDM organization: participate in the Membership Committee, the Education & Certification committees, work on Innovation and Publications & help set up Webinars with an EMEA flavor, just to mention a few.
Moreover, in contrast to the US, in Europe, the Middle East & Africa many different national Clinical Data Management professional organizations are active, and the regulators in the different countries have their own inspection interests & strengths, which makes this a tremendously interesting zone to represent.
Therefore we would welcome any volunteers to strengthen our SCDM EMEA Steering Committee. Most of us are located in the European time zone and we meet during European business hours. If you are interested in joining our efforts, please don’t hesitate to reach out, we’d be delighted to welcome you & expand the SCDM in the EMEA zone!