New FDA Director to Deliver Keynote at Minnesota Regulatory Workshop; Presenter NCAFDO Partnering with Organizers of MD&M Minneapolis Trade Show
The North Central Association of Food and Drug Officials (NCAFDO) and Canon Communications have announced that Daniel Schultz, M.D., the new director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), will deliver a keynote address on Tuesday, October 19, in the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Selected in July to lead CDRH, Dr. Schultz is responsible for FDA’s review of all medical devices, as well as radiation-emitting products such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment and x-ray machines. In his keynote, Dr. Schultz will discuss the center’s current initiatives and provide an update on the 2002 Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA). The act authorizes FDA to collect user fees for its review of medical device marketing applications and sets performance goals for those reviews.
NCAFDO and Canon are presenting concurrent events–an October 19 “Medical Device Regulatory Workshop” and the October 19-21 Medical Design & Manufacturing(R) (MD&M) Minneapolis trade show–and they are partnering to benefit their respective attendees. Workshop participants may register on the show’s www.mdm-minneapolis.com website and qualify for free admission to its October 20-21 exposition. Similarly, participants in the show’s October 19 conference sessions can attend Dr. Schultz’s keynote address on a complimentary basis.
For nearly a decade, MD&M Minneapolis has featured the region’s largest and most comprehensive display of medical equipment, supplies and services from the industry’s top suppliers, while the show’s conference has provided the most valuable and timely information for medical device manufacturing. Topics in the 2004 conference include: Preparing for Winning Business in the Medical Device Industry; Practical Software Validation; Cleanliness Issues for Biomedical Devices; Advanced Medical Device Design; ISO 13485; Practical Process Validation Solutions to Industry Processes; Materials Processing for Medical Devices; Combination Products Regulation; Advanced QSR Training; Medical Packaging Update; Advanced Issues in Adhesives; Materials Failure Analysis; Medical Device Testing, and more.
Information about NCAFDO and the “Medical Device Regulatory Workshop” is available at www.ncafdo.org . To learn more about MD&M Minneapolis, including registering online, go to www.mdm-minneapolis.com .
Produced and managed by CANON COMMUNICATIONS LLC, MD&M(R) Minneapolis is part of the company’s worldwide family of trade events. Information on CANON events can be found at www.canontradeshows.com or by calling (310) 445-4200.
