However, the Syrians asked Hamas, the principal convener, to postpone it until Annapolis revealed itself to the world.
Bartholomew et al. [ 1] mention the following parameters: requires willingness by the health promoter or convener to accept the participants as equals and as having a high level of influence; requires target group to possess appropriate motivation and skills (p. 347).
Like at Asilomar, the conveners chose to limit the discussion to a narrow set of potential CRISPR applications, involving inheritable human genome editing.
In September 2016, the Commission will report to the co-convener and to the Secretary-General of United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who has agreed to receive the report and act on its recommendations.
Sometimes conveners try to maintain focus on some key issues, but mostly they let emergence take over.
Independent of this crutch, and with the capabilities of everything from instant communication to project management, the Apple Watch stands to become the ultimate convener, allowing users to seamlessly manage both their personal and professional lives.
We reflect on these to design an 'ABC framework' aimed at providing signpost to agencies, governments and conveners of collaboration on how to execute this socio-technical process to maximise value.
Presenting a small number of key images (chosen by the meeting convener), as opposed to using the full PACS study file, is a way to reduce the potential for loss of anonymity (of the patient and the reporting radiologist) during QI meetings, while maintaining the meeting focus of the key learning points [61].
"We were most of all a convener, and tried to do it outside the spotlight so people didn't have to posture as much".
Casadevall and Handelsman also found that an all-male group of conveners was more likely to select an all-male panel.
