PHT Meeting History Slideshow
The PHT Meeting history slideshow has been updated with photos from the 2022 meeting, and is available for viewing. Click here to take a look!
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Hotel Registration Informatio
The hotel room reservation block for this meeting has closed. Please contact the hotel directly:
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, 201 North 17th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Meeting Registration Information
Meeting registration is now open on the SLA website. Register by clicking this link:
SLA PHT 2022 (35th Anniversary) Meeting Registration. Fees for the full conference are $400 for members, $450 for non-members, and $200 for students/unemployed. All meals and snacks, from Sunday’s dinner through Tuesday’s lunch, are included. Multiple options to attend only part of the conference are also available.
The deadline to register online is the first day of the conference, October 9th. Registration in-person will also be available on-site by credit card.
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Keynote session
"The US Pharmaceutical Market: Trends, Issues, and Outlook" by Doug Long, Vice President Industry Relations, IQVIA
Join members of the of the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Community and the Special Libraries Association to hear an overview of the state of the "US Pharmaceutical Market: Trends, Issues, and Outlook," including the impact of COVID-19 upon the industry and the race to find treatments and vaccines.
Speaker Bio

Doug Long is Vice President Industry Relations, IQVIA. (formerly Quintiles IMS) one the world’s largest pharmaceutical information company. IQVIA offers services to the pharmaceutical industry in over 101 countries around the globe.
Doug has been with IQVIA since 1989. His fundamental task is to help secure data for all existing and new databases supported by IQVIA, manage supplier, manufacturer & association relationships, and develop information for data partners. As direct consequence of his involvement in these areas, Doug has considerable experience with, and a unique perspective on, the changing US and global healthcare marketplace and pharmaceutical distribution.
National Association of Chain Drug Stores President and CEO Steven C. Anderson, stated, “Doug Long has earned a reputation as one of the foremost ‘go-to’ sources when it comes to the numbers and trends behind this industry. He has built a reputation of synthesizing the latest industry information and forecasting ‘what’s next’ in ways that helps stakeholders to understand what it means for their day-to-day businesses.”
A native of Illinois, Doug received a BA from DePauw University and holds an MBA in Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
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Schedule
Sunday Oct 9, 2022
Start |
End |
Session |
11:00 AM |
4:00 PM |
Registration (Attendees & Exhibitors) |
11:00 AM |
4:00 PM |
Exhibitor Setup |
2:00 PM |
4:00 PM |
Open Board Meeting (including snacks) - Susie Corbett, 2022 PHT Chair, Moderator |
6:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
Dinner & Exhibits Kick-off
Sponsored by New England Journal of Medicine |
Monday, Oct 10, 2022
Start |
End |
Session |
Speaker/Facilitator |
8:00 AM |
4:00 PM |
Registration (Attendees & Exhibitors) |
Jordan Burghardt |
8:00 AM |
8:50 AM |
Breakfast & Exhibits |
|
8:50 AM |
9:00 AM |
Opening Remarks |
Susie Corbett |
9:00 AM |
10:00 AM |
Keynote: Overview of the state of the US Pharmaceutical Market: Trends, Issues, and Outlook
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis |
Doug Long (IQVIA)
|
10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Snacks & Exhibits |
|
10:30 AM |
11:15 AM |
Reconnecting: Catching Up & Conversations |
Programming Committee & PHT Board |
11:15 AM |
12:00 PM |
Surfing the Pipeline: What's the Value in Searching More than One Drug Pipeline Database? |
Diane Webb & Matt Eberle (BizInt) |
12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Lunch & Exhibits |
|
1:00 PM |
1:45 PM |
Remote Working, Hybrid Models, and Back-to-Office: Best Practices/Experiences. A Panel Discussion |
Panel: Mark Haythorn, Susie Corbett, Susan Keckler, Caren Torrey |
1:45 PM |
2:00 PM |
BizInt Smart Charts and the SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division: Celebrating 25 Years Together |
Diane Webb (BizInt) |
2:00 PM |
2:30 PM |
Snack (Cake & Champagne) & Exhibits
Sponsored by BizInt |
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2:30 PM |
3:15 PM |
Librarian - Snapshot - From Large Pharma to Growing Biopharma |
Andrea Oliver (Exelixis) |
3:15 PM |
4:15 PM |
Current Trends and Future Directions in Pharmaceutical Industry Corporate Libraries 2022 |
Chris Bogan (Best Practices) |
4:15 PM |
4:30 PM |
Closing Notes |
Susie Corbett/PHT Board/Planning Committee |
4:30 PM |
6:00 PM |
Free time for networking |
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6:00 PM |
10:00 PM |
Social Event: Evening at the Franklin Institute (including dinner)
Franklin Institute:222 North 20th Street Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown (provided here for ease in finding your way to/from the Institute): 201 North 17th St
Sponsored by Springer Nature and Wolters Kluwer Health (Ovid) |
Karen Mirabile |
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Start |
End |
Session |
Speaker/Facilitator |
8:00 AM |
12:00 PM |
Registration (Attendees & Exhibitors) |
Jordan Burghardt |
8:00 AM |
8:50 AM |
Breakfast & Exhibits |
|
8:50 AM |
9:00 AM |
Opening Remarks |
Susie Corbett |
9:00 AM |
9:45 AM |
SLA Update from Catherine Lavallee Welch |
Catherine Lavallee Welch |
9:45 AM |
10:45 AM |
Keynote: Vendor Negotiations From Both Sides of the Table |
Michael Gruenberg |
10:45 AM |
11:15 AM |
Snacks & Exhibits |
|
11:15 AM |
12:00 PM |
Taking Stock of PHT: Its Past, Present -- and Most Importantly – Future |
Susan Gleckner |
12:00 PM |
12:45 PM |
Breakout session: The Future of PHT |
PHT Board & Program Committee |
12:45 PM |
2:00 PM |
Lunch & Exhibits |
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2:00 PM |
3:00 PM |
AI in the age of information overload: how knowledge professionals can combine technology with human insight to manage the data deluge |
Francesco Marconi (presenter) with Kate Sheridan (co-presenter) |
3:00 PM |
3:15 PM |
Closing Notes - Meeting Concludes |
Susie Corbett |
Session Descriptions - Monday
Reconnecting: Catch up and Conversations
Led by a collection of PHT Members, Planning Committee or Board Members
A chance to reconnect with your colleagues, with short updates across our industry and an opportunity to find out more about each other through questions and conversation starters.
Surfing the Pipeline: What's the Value in Searching More than One Drug Pipeline Database?
Diane Webb & Matt Eberle, BizInt Solutions.
Abstract: Drug pipeline databases all cover basically the same collection of compounds in development. So you may wonder -- what's the value in subscribing to and searching more than one of these databases? In this presentation, we will analyze differences in coverage and content from the results of searches of four leading drug pipeline databases (Citeline Pharmaprojects, Adis R&D Insight, Clarivate Cortellis, and GlobalData Pipeline).
Remote Working, Hybrid Models, and Back-to-Office: Best Practices/Experiences
Mark Haythorn
A panel discussion led by Mark Haythorn on best practices and experiences working in the new work space for many – remote and hybrid environments.
BizInt Smart Charts and the SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division: Celebrating 25 Years Together
Diane Webb
As part of its 25th anniversary, BizInt will present a short video reflecting the history of BizInt Smart Charts and the collaboration with PHT, followed by cake and champagne at the afternoon break.
From Large Pharma to Growing Biopharma
Andrea Oliver – Exelixis
Andrea Oliver will share her insights and experiences working at Exelixis, a growing biopharma company after having a career in large pharma.
Current Trends and Future Directions in Pharmaceutical Industry Corporate Libraries 2022
Chris Bogan - Best Practices
A look at the trends that are happening in the libraries that support the Pharmaceutical and Health Technologies industry. The survey conducted in August 2022 will provide the most recent snapshot of the life of pharma and health technologies libraries since 2018.
Monday Evening Social Event
The Monday Social Event will be held at The Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, a 8-10 walk or 3 minute ride from the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown (201 North 17th St.).
A top-five tourist destination in the city, The Franklin Institute is science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia.
You’ll be able to visit the newest exhibit area, Your Brain which invites you to think about how you think. It's all about real life and what's happening inside your head everyday as your brain makes sense of the world around you.
This will be followed by a delicious dinner, which is included in your registration fee.
Session Descriptions - Tuesday
SLA Update from Catherine Lavallee Welch
SLA President Catherine Lavelle Welch will give an update the National Meeting and the future of SLA.
Keynote: Vendor Negotiations From Both Side of the Table
Michael Gruenberg
Author of “Buying and Selling Information: A Guide for Information Professionals and Salespeople to Build Mutual Success” Michael Gruenberg is a veteran of the electronic information field. With over 30 years selling information to libraries of all types and sizes, he will share tips, techniques, and strategies for librarians and sales professionals as both sides work for best outcomes.
Taking Stock of PHT: Its Past, Present -- and Most Importantly – Future
Susan Gleckner
PHT and SLA have always been evolving, but especially so in these most recent years, precipitated by factors that many professional associations are facing. On the 75th anniversary of the founding of PHT, and the 35th anniversary of this meeting, it’s important that we take time to understand our past, take stock of where we are now and the challenges we are facing, and determine how we all can design the future of a professional association driven by and for info pros in the pharmaceutical and medical technology space.
This will be an informal talk, with audience participation encouraged.
PHT member Susan Gleckner is the speaker for this session, but much of what she will discuss is shared by PHT Board and other members, and vendors.
All attendees and vendors are strongly encouraged to attend.
Susan Gleckner Bio:
Susan Gleckner managed information services for global Research & Development at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc. for more than two decades, supporting a customer base of 1,000 at 30+ sites worldwide. Her job was eliminated in 2017.
In 2018, Sue started a consulting firm to work with clients on information services strategy, processes, and research. Most recently, she served as a Senior Analyst for Jinfo Limited, which enables organizations to reach their information strategy potential.
Based in New Jersey, Sue is currently PHT Membership Chair and was Secretary of PHT in the past. She led discussions on PHT’s future just a few years ago, project-managed the postponed 2020 PHT Spring Meeting, and contributed to the planning and programming of this 2022 meeting.
Sue was honored with the PHT Distinguished Member Award in 2009 and the Hall of PHame in 2020.
Breakout session: The Future of PHT
Facilitated by members of the PHT committees
Conversations and sharing guided by topics and questions that include: opportunities for volunteering and leadership, where the future is for PHT, what members need from our division and more.
"AI in the age of information overload: how knowledge professionals can combine technology with human insight to manage the data deluge”
Francesco Marconi
Francesco Marconi is the co-founder & CEO of Applied XL, which develops event detection systems powered by machine learning and editorial algorithms to find early signals before they become news. Applied XL and STAT worked together in early 2020 to launch the first COVID-tracker, and they recently launched STAT Trials Pulse, a clinical trials intelligence platform. Francesco is an economist and computational journalist who previously served as R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal and AI co-lead at the Associated Press. He was an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia Journalism School and a Research Associate at the Laboratory for Social Machines at MIT Media Lab. His latest book "Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism ” was published by Columbia University Press in January 2020. Francesco started his career as an economist at the Group of 77 at the United Nations.
Kate Sheridan is a seasoned research reporter at STAT, collecting and analyzing documents, data, and other information for biotech, health tech, science, and politics stories. She joined STAT in 2018 to cover biotech startups and venture capital. Previously, she was a science writer at Newsweek and the Montreal Gazette. Kate graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, and she received a graduate diploma in journalism shortly afterward. Kate is now pursuing her Masters in Library & Information Science at Pratt Institute. Though based in New York, Kate prefers Montreal’s bagels.
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