Digital Pharma East: Day One #digpharm

The first day of Digital Pharma East in Philadelphia is just over and there are so many things I would like to share and I met so many great people. Just a few points summarizing the first day and the people I met:

• Dr. Anonymous (Mike sevilla) who has been running a popular online medical radio show (I was a guest years ago) which is now included in the curriculum of my Internet in Medicine university course
• Bryan Vartabedian, MD from 33 Charts which is one of my favourite medical blogs. He and Shwen Gwee (on the right) opened the conference

• Mark Senak had great questions when he interviewed me on stage about Webicina, my course, Second Life and social media apps in medicine
• I met Kevin Clauson first since the 2008 Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto. He has been running a successful course about web 2.0 at his university
• I met Len Starnes again who I consider the top voice in pharma 2.0.
• John Mack presented the Pharmaguy award (a part of the prize was his Hawaii shirt) to Alex Butler who runs the Psorasis 360 Facebook page where comments are not moderated
• Ian Talmage gave a great presentation by telling his cancer survivor story from the pharma marketing perspective

Some final thoughts:

• Never thought there could be a conference where the temperature of the lecture hall is below 15 Celsius
• I saw only one Prezi.com formatted presentation
• It turned out it’s possible to keep the time and programme even in such a big conference
• I never thought one could steal a wi-fi router in a medical event
• I expected to hear more questions from the audience throughout the whole day, but it didn’t happen
• Sometimes a small group participating in a session leads to more vibrating discussions
• And the main hall is quite spectacular

Today I will give a prezi slideshow at 16:15 in the plenary session about doctors, e-patients and the pharma sector using social media for a better healthcare.