AMWA-RM Conference

American Medical Writers Association Rocky Mountain Chapter Conference Saturday, April 29, 2017, 8:00 am –5:00 pm Downtown Aquarium, Denver, Colorado

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast Your wakeup call and chance to network!

9:00 am – 11:00 am: Morning Session (Open Session) 9:00 am – 11:00 am: Financial Prescription for Medical Writers Presented by Linda Y. Leitz, PhD, CFP, EA. Dr. Leitz, co-owner of It’s Not Just Money, Inc., is a Certified Financial Planner and has been in the financial industry since 1979.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Lunch and Networking Enjoy lunch selections in the beautiful Aquarium Restaurant while catching up with AMWA friends you haven't seen in a while.

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Afternoon Sessions (Open Sessions) 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Predatory Journals: How They Threaten Science, Communication of Science, and Scientists Themselves Presented by Jeffrey Beall, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Jeffrey Beall has published widely in the areas of library information retrieval and scholarly publishing.

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Break 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: This Drug’s for You: How Your Genes Affect Response to Medications Presented by Christina Aquilante, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Cocktail Hour Join us for wine, beer, and mixed drinks.

Note: Conference registration fee includes all open sessions, breakfast, lunch, and the cocktail hour.

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS AND SPEAKER BIOS Financial Prescription for Medical Writers:

You don’t need to be a financial guru to have good financial records for your writing business, tax on taxes, and put away your writing earnings for the future. This session will give specific tips on an easy record keeping system for your income and expenses, provide tips on some tax deductions, and give ideas on saving money from your writing for retirement.

Linda Y. Leitz, co-owner of It’s Not Just Money, Inc., is a Certified Financial Planner and has been in the financial industry since 1979. She is also enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service.

Before becoming a financial planning professional, Linda held several executive positions in the banking industry. She began her career as a bank examiner. Linda has a BA in Business Administration from Principia College, an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University.

Linda is active in many community and professional activities. She is currently serving on The Standards Commission for the Certified Financial Planning Board, is past Chair of the National Board of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, and has also served on that organization’s West Region Board of Directors. She is past president of the Pikes Peak Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and was the 1998 Business Owner of the Year of that organization. Linda has been or is currently involved with various organizations on their boards or other committees: The Colorado Springs Utility Policy Advisory Committee, the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Colorado Chapter of the Financial Planning Association, Junior Achievement, and the Estate Planning Council.

As a fee-only financial planner, Linda is a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association, the National Association of Tax Professionals, and the Alliance of Comprehensive Planners. Linda is the author of two books: The Ultimate Parenting Map to Money Smart Kids and We Need to Talk - Money & Kids After Divorce. She is a personal financial columnist for The Gazette in Colorado Springs. Linda is a columnist for the financial planning industry magazine NAPFA Advisor and has been a financial columnist for the Colorado Springs Business Journal, The Beacon, and Senior Times. She has also had financial articles published in Positively Magazine, The Christian Science Sentinel, and LDS Living. She has been quoted in several national publications including the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and Morningstar Advisor and she has appeared on CSNBC. She also works as a volunteer instructor to new financial advisors with the Alliance of Comprehensive Planners.

Predatory Journals: How They Threaten Science, Communication of Science, and Scientists Themselves:

Provides essential information about predatory publishers and journals and how they threaten science, the communication of science, and scientists themselves. Medical research is particularly affected by the appearance of low-quality, pay-to-publish journals, as much junk and borderline science — such as CAM — is being published bearing the window-dressing of vetted, authentic research. The talk will also describe related scams threatening scholarly authors.

Jeffrey Beall is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver. He works in the university's Auraria Library, which serves students from all three schools on the Auraria Campus. Beall has worked as an academic librarian for over twenty-six years and has published widely in the areas of library information retrieval and scholarly publishing. From January 2012 to January 2017, he authored and published the blog Scholarly Open Access, which identified predatory publishers and journals and critically analyzed the sorry state of scholarly publishing. Under pressure, he unpublished his blog in mid-January 2017.

This Drug’s for You: How Your Genes Affect Response to Medications:

Dr. Christina Aquilante will discuss how a person’s genetic make-up (DNA) affects response to medications (also known as pharmacogenomics). She will discuss this topic in the context of medications used to treat conditions such as pain, cardiovascular disease, depression, and cancer.

Dr. Aquilante received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a pharmacy practice residency at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. Following residency, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacogenomics at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Dr. Aquilante's clinical research program is focused on identifying genetic factors that influence medication response in patients with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Dr. Aquilante is the chair-elect of the Pharmacogenomics Special Interest Group of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and a member of the National Institutes of Health Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genetics and Genomics. She is also the co-chair of the Pharmacogenomics Implementation Committee Colorado (PICColo), a system-wide clinical pharmacogenomics implementation initiative at UCHealth.

REGISTRATION Two easy steps!

1. Email your completed registration form, including lunch selection, to: @gmail.com or mail to 2. Make check payable to AMWA - Rocky Mountain Chapter and mail to:

Registration deadline is April 15, 2017 Registration Fee:

AMWA Member

$79

Nonmember

$179

Student *

$39

Registration for all participants includes continental breakfast, buffet lunch, cocktail hour, and admittance to open sessions. *Student ID will be checked upon arrival.

REFUND POLICY Event registrations are subject to AMWA's conference cancellation policy. Conference cancellation requests must be received in writing (via email to @gmail.com) by April 15, 2017. No refunds will be given after April 22, 2017. There is a $15 nonrefundable charge to cover chapter processing expenses.

No refunds or credits will be given for failure to attend, late arrival, unattended events, or early departure.

VENUE The conference is being held at the Downtown Aquarium, 700 Water St., Denver, CO 80211.

(303) 561-4450. http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/downtownAquariumDenver/default.asp

NEARBY HOTELS Ramada Denver Midtown 2601 Zuni St, Denver, CO, 80211 866-573-4235 Hampton Inn & Suites Denver-Speer Boulevard 2747 Wyandot St, Denver, CO, 80211 855-239-9483 Residence Inn by Marriott Denver Downtown 2777 Zuni St, Denver, CO, 80211 866-925-4159

American Medical Writers Association Rocky Mountain Chapter Conference Saturday, April 29, 2017, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Downtown Aquarium, Denver, Colorado

REGISTRATION FORM Registration deadline is Saturday, April 15, 2017 Basic Information Name ______________________________________ Company ____________________________________ Address

Download and complete this form, including the lunch selection of your choice. Snail-mail a printout or email an electronic copy to: Kathleen Kenny @gmail.com.

To complete the registration process, you must also snail-mail a check payable to AMWA—Rocky Mountain Chapter to: Elise Eller at @gmail.com

_____________________________________ City/State/Zip ____________________________________ Daytime Phone _____________________________________

Registration & Fees: Required for all participants; includes continental breakfast, lunch, and beer and wine reception All conference sessions are Open Sessions. No AMWA credit workshops are being offered during this conference.

Email ______________________________________ Not an AMWA member? Want to become one and enjoy the member price? Go to: http://www.amwa.org/assoc_subscribe.asp Refund information There is a $15 nonrefundable charge to cover chapter processing expenses. No refunds will be given after April 22, 2017.

AMWA Member Nonmember Student*

$79 ______ $179 ______ $35 ______

*Student ID will be checked upon arrival.

Please enter applicable prices for AMWA members/nonmembers.

Total payment

$ ______

LUNCH SELECTIONS—MUST SELECT ONE IF YOU PLAN TO EAT LUNCH AT THE EVENT: Bacon Mushroom Cheeseburger

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Grilled Chicken Sandwich

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Chicken Tortilla Wrap

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Greek Salad

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New Orleans Shrimp Po Boy

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Questions? Contact the conference organizer: Kathleen Kenny @gmail.com