ALMA Local Chapters

Local Chapters Bring ALMA Benefits Closer to Home

We recognize that lab managers are not always able to attend the annual ALMA meetings and that even if they can more frequent opportunities to network with peers would be beneficial. As a result during the past two years a number of ALMA local chapters have been established to bring the benefits of ALMA closer to home.

Active Chapters

Local chapters are now active in the following locations:

Delaware / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
Houston, Texas
Chicago Area
Maryland
Ohio
New England

Typical Meeting Format & Topics

At the local chapters analytical managers meet at a host company’s site a targeted three times per year. Typically participants in the local chapters are located within a reasonable driving distance to the meeting to attend a mid-morning to mid afternoon meeting with only one day or partial day out of the office. Agendas usually consist of a two to three discussion topics followed by a lab tour or continued discussion in a roundtable format.

Topics from recent local chapter meetings have included:

Best Practices in Knowledge Management,
How to Run Your Analytical Department as a Business,and
Measuring Customer Satisfaction.

Feedback from attendees has been very positive and the local chapters are thriving.

Chapter Contacts and Meeting Schedules

A listing of the local chapters, contacts and the date of the next meeting is shown in the table below.

Local Chapter	Contact	Next Meeting Date and Location
DE / NJ / PA	Kelly Mason ExxonMobil 856.224.3344	Active
Houston, TX	Wayne Collins 281.395.9670	Active
IL / IN / WI / MI (Chicago area)	David McDonald USG Corp. 847.970.5262	Inactive
MD	Fred Belkin US Army CHPPM 410.436.3898	Active
CT / MA / NH / VT / RI (New England)	Lawrence Murphy Cabot Corp 978.670.6249 Marta Portoles Millipore Corporation 781.223.5719	Active Tuesday December 22, 2009 10 A.M. – Noon Location: Millipore Corporation, 80 Ashby Road, Bedford, MA 01730 (map) Topic: Design of Experiments by Thomas Weaver Agenda 10:00 – 10:15 Greeting with Refreshments 10:15 – 11:00 Featured Presentation: Design of Experiments by Thomas Weaver, President of StatWeaver When you hear someone mention Design of Experiments (DOE), do you wonder whether it can be useful for your lab? Tom Weaver will give the group specific information on where DOE fits in with management systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. Additionally, he will address the question, “What can DOE do for my lab?” This meeting is meant to be appropriate for all labs, whether they are R&D or QC, six sigma or not, and will focus on the role of DOE in test method development and improvement. 11:00 – 11:30 Q&A and Announcements 12:00 Adjournment Feel free to extend this invitation to fellow analytical lab managers in your company and neighboring companies who may not know about ALMA or our local chapter. Please confirm your interest in attending by sending an email to Marta. We look forward to seeing you in this networking and learning opportunity for analytical laboratory managers.
Ohio	Seeking new contact.	Inactive

Association of

Laboratory Managers

Organization

Local Chapters

Our Future: Local Chapters

Local Chapters Bring ALMA Benefits Closer to Home

Active Chapters

Typical Meeting Format & Topics

Chapter Contacts and Meeting Schedules

Association of Laboratory Managers

Organization

Local Chapters

Our Future: Local Chapters

Local Chapters Bring ALMA Benefits Closer to Home

Active Chapters

Typical Meeting Format & Topics

Chapter Contacts and Meeting Schedules

Association of

Laboratory Managers