An annual SIGMEDD business meeting was held on August 2, 2011, at JSM. The meeting was attended by approximately 40 statisticians interested in medical devices and diagnostics, special guests including Steve Wilson, Chair Biopharmaceutical Section, and Brain Weins, former chair, Biopharmaceutical Section. The meeting was chaired by Greg Campbell.

Issues discussed included:

• SIGMEDD has renewed its ASA Interest Group status. ASA has changed the name of its special interest group certification to just 'Interest Group'; SIGMEDD's name, derived from Statistics Interest Group for Medical Devices and Diagnostics, will remain unchanged. ASA Interst Group must renew its status every 3 years. SIGMEDD will need to renew the Interest Group status by year 2013 or to become an ASA section before then. ASA requires 100 signatures from its memebers to form a new section.
• Greg went through the final draft charter. General orgainztional structure of SIGMEDD was approved in the meeting; a volunteered Nomination and Election Comemittee was formed to conduct SIGMEDD's first Officer Elecetion. The election will be completed before January 2012.
• To apply for SIGMEDD membership, send a request to Greg Campbell, CC Jeng Mah.

SIGMEDD presented 7 well attended medical device and diagnostics related sessions at JSM 2011.

For more details, see the Past Events page.