Mutual Recognition - Is it Needed?

Federal Initiatives to Reduce Medical Errors

Update on Federal Issues Impacting State Regulation

Role of Regulators in Influencing Legislation

Special Interest Advocacy

Credentialing, Certification, Accreditation, Licensure: What Does it All Mean?

Where is the Public in Professional Regulation?

The Power of Collaborative Approaches to Regulation

A Time for Change: Let the Market Prevail

Alternatives to State Regulation

The "True" Meaning of Regulation

Is There a Criminal in Your Background?

The Evolution of Local Regulation to a National Standard

Continuing Competency-Smoke and Mirrors or the Real Thing

Unlicensed Personnel - "Where's the Harm"

Disaster Preparedness - Preparing and Reacting

The Profiler

Cyberspace Practice and Beyond

Managing Transition: How to Succeed in Transition Without Even Trying

Systems versus Individuals: Who's Running the Ship?

Licensure Without State Boundaries

Alternative Approaches to Public Protection

Alternative And Complementary Care: Who Should be Regulated?

Oregon's Death With Dignity Act: Health Care Professionals Speak Out on Its Impact

As the World Shrinks: Will International Mobility Increase?

The Rules: Association Interaction with Regulatory Bodies

Change has Changed-Everything You Thought You Knew Is Irrelevant

Navigating A Course Across Interstate/International Borders in the 21^st Century

Industrialization of Health Care and Corporate Practice: Implications for the Regulatory System

Title Protection as an Alternative to Licensure

Consumer Protection: All Talk and No Action? Where is the Voice of the Consumer at the Capitol and in Regulation?

How Sunrise/Sunset Reviews Can Improve Government Regulation

Board Privatization In the 21^st Century

As the World Shrinks: An Environmental Scan of the Changing and Complex Regulatory Environment

What Level of Practice Is Expected When a License Is Issued: Minimally Safe? Competent? Quality?

Legislative Strategies: How to Improve your Agency's Effectiveness at the Capitol

Living in an Evidence-Based World: On What do You Base Your Standards?

The Changing Role of Government in the Digital Age: Implication for Public Policy

Who’s Piloting the Ship?-I: Who’s Making the Biggest Waves in Deciding Health Care Regulation

Who’s Piloting the Ship? – II

Empowering Board Members as Health Change Agents

How the Press Influences Public Policy in Regulation

Telepractice

Impact of Globalization - I: The Influence & Impact of Trade Agreements

Impact of Globalization-II: Model and Mobility

Best Practices in Professional Regulation Roundtable

Feds in State Beds

Multistate Practice in a Single State System

Should Government Be Involved in Assuring Professional Competence?

Role of Regulatory Authority & Ethical Dilemmas

Privatization Models-One Size Fits All

Impact of PEW Recommendations

EAP’s Employee Protection or Public Protection

Outcome Focused Professional Regulation: Measuring Effectiveness, Influence, and Value

"Do We Really Protect The Public"

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable I & II

Pew-One Year After

Beyond Pew-Other Factors Driving Regulatory Reform

Alternative Models to Regulation

Who is Responsible for the Quality of Service?

Autonomous Boards Roundtable

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable

Surviving in a Time of Scarce Resources

Outreach: Selling Your Agency

International Roundtable

The Politics of Privatization

Policy Approaches to Continued Competence

Physician Assisted Suicide: The Regulatory Implications

The Future and Beyond Strategies for a Multi-discipline, Global Approach to Regulation

New Federal Perspective on Professional Regulation

Unlicensed Practice- Is Anybody Dealing with it Effectively?

The Pew Health Professions Commission’s Task Force on Professional Regulation Report

Power, Size, and Politics Autonomous Board Administrators Roundtable

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable I & II

Continuing Education Who Benefits Most: The Public, The Professional or The Trade Association

The Information Highway and Professional Regulation: Are We in the Driver’s Seat or Are We Road Kill?

State Perspectives on Professional Regulation

Public Members-Clark Kent, Superman, or Lois Lane?

What is Multi-skilling and What Does It Mean for Professional Regulation?

State Healthcare Reform: How Are States Getting Ready for It?

State Alternative Regulatory Strategies

Federal Healthcare Reform

Whom Do We Protect vs. Whom Do You Think We Protect vs. Whom Does the Public Perceive We Protect?

International Comparison of Licensure and Regulation

NAFTA: The Basics

NAFTA: An Open Forum - Ask The Experts

Ontario Plan: An Update on Ontario's New Regulatory Scheme

Assuring Competency in the Midst of Health Care Reform

Credentials Verification and the Value of National Databases

Basics of Testing: developing a Valid Test

Maintaining Test Security in the U.S. and Internationally

ADA Roundtable 

Is Your Exam Relevant to Your Regulatory Mission?

Candidate Communication

Sticky Situations in Standard Testing

Computer-Based Testing

Questions About Testing: Can We Help?

Roundtables on Testing Topics

Prior Learning Assessment

Language-Related Issues in Testing

Boundaries for Practice: Transportability of Credentials Across European Borders & Telemedicine

Can we Beat the System? Cheating, Sneaking and Test Security

Catching Up to the New Joint Standards

Technological Innovations and Issues in Testing

"I Served My Country...Now What?" Transitioning from Government Service to the Private Sector

ADA Decision Making - When are Accommodations Needed

When Words Won't Do

Answering Your Practical Questions About Testing

YOURTEST.ORG: Weaving our way Through the Web on Internet Test Delivery

In The Year 2525: Blue Skies for Examinations

Testing 1-2-3: The Basics

Testing 4-5-6: More Basics

Practical Issues Involving Practical Examinations

Solving Everyday Testing Problems with Item Responses Theory (IRT)

To Be or Not To Be In English: Language Translation

Computer Based Testing Comes of Age

Keeping Your Test Specs Current In a Time of Change

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Testing

Testing Fundamentals

Meaningful Communication of Exam Results

Models for Assessing Continuing Professional Competence

Testing Accommodations Under the American With Disabilities Act (ADA): Where Are We Today?

Challenges to Test Validity

Overview of Issues Involved in Translation of Licensure & Certification Exams

Lessons Learned in Developing a Continuing Competency Program

Job Analysis and Standard Setting

Computer-Based Testing Roundtable

Assuring the Quality of National Examinations

Defining Issues, Policies, and Procedures for Creating Credentialing Programs that Cross Borders

Your Questions about Testing: Panel and Roundtable Discussion

Navigating Exam Currents for Multiple Choice Exam-I

Navigating Exam Currents for Performance Exams-II

Problems in Test Administration

Moving Across Borders: The Import/Export of Credentials and Examinations

ADA and Testing Roundtable

From Unlicensed Personnel to Advanced Practitioners: Who Decides, Who Provides

Your Understanding of Practice: How it Impacts What you Assess?

Job Analysis- Old Problems/New Tricks

Issues in Security

Computerized Testing: Past, Present, and Future

Moving From a Process-based to an Output based Approach

Do’s and Don’ts of Soliciting Private Testing Services

Investigation of Alleged Exam Security Breeches

Models of Competency Assessment

Evaluating National Exam Programs

Practical Issues in Examination Site Administration

Computer-Based Testing 101: Moving from Paper and Pencil to Computer

Assessing Continuing Competence

The Next Frontier: Eligibility Documentation for Test Accommodations

Examining Carousel-A Focused Review of Examination Development for Non-Psychometrician

Alternative Standard Setting Methods

Truth or Dare: The Realities of Diagnostic Profiles in Licensure Testing

A Practicum on Acquiring a Computer-Based Testing System

Defining a Profession and Its Players

Pushing Technology to the Edge for More Cost Effective Test Development

Appealing Test Results: Current Practices, Applications and Legal Issues

International Testing

Issues in Examination Security

Candidates Rights If Any

Testing Questions and Answers: Practical Topics

Oral Examinations: Justification, Implementation & Consequences

Relationships Among State Boards, National Associations and Test Vendors: How to Make Them Work

Testing in "Other Arenas": What Can We Learn?

Focusing on Competence

"Wish I’d Thought of That" Ways to Prevent Test Administration Disasters (Breakfast Session)

Standard Setting It’s Not as Easy as You Think (Breakfast Session)

Practice Analysis: What Can be Learned About Your Profession?

Computer Simulations I & II

ADA Testing Accommodation: Fair, Legal, and Valid?

How Secure is Your Examination Security?

Computer Based Testing: Beyond the Glitz

Policing the Internet

Oversight and Discipline of Unlicensed Personnel

Who Are the Players in the Disciplinary Process?

Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide...Or Can You?

Crime and Punishment

What is the Value of ADR in the 21st Century?

Fraudulent Credentials

Internet Tools for the Investigator, Prosecutor and Board Member 

First the Bad News: Receipts Analysis and Disposition of Complaints

"Mediation," A 21st Century Approach Towards Happy Endings

Telepractice

Digital Evidence: Scanning Pictures

Getting the Goods: Back Doors, Trap Doors, and Revolving Doors

Dead or Alive? Ethics in the New Millennium

Practice Monitoring

Now the Good News - Effective Use of the Media

Through the Looking Glass: Web Technology For Professional Regulators

Web Information and Technology: Breakout session for Health Professionals and Design Professionals

Can We Do It Better? Evaluating Discipline Processes

Back to the Future: Rethinking Professional Discipline

Truth or Consequences HIPDB/HPDB

Negotiators Delight

Dealing with Difficult People: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Prioritizing An Enforcement Program

Ethical Issues

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Disciplinary Process

Enforcing Social Legislation: Is There a Nexus to Professional Discipline?

Fitting the Punishment to the Crime: What is the Best Remedy?

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Pushing the Boundaries

Ethical Dilemmas

Effectiveness of the Discipline Process: Can We Measure Performance?

Investigator Roundtable

International Roundtable

Web Technology and the Investigation Process

Use of Criminal Information and Remote Discipline

Standards of Practice and Professional Ethics: The Tensions Between Systems and Individual Accountability

Legal Issues Roundtable

Situation Ethics I & II

Access to Confidentiality of Professional Discipline Information

Antitrust Implication of Professional Discipline

Discipline Across Geographic Boundaries

Autonomous Board Administrators Roundtable

New Grounds for Discipline

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Monitoring Compliance & Enforcing Discipline Orders

Investigator Roundtable

Legal Issues Roundtable

New Uses of Technology – I & II

Selection and Preparation of Witnesses

What Constitutes Direct Supervision?

Regulatory Reform-Real Life Problems, Solutions & Other Experiences Including Privatization of the Disciplinary Process

Legal Issues Roundtable

Privacy Issues vs. Public Interest

Investigator Roundtable

Investigatory Process Under Attack from Respondents and Problem Complainants

False Memory Syndrome I & II

Board Member Issues Roundtable

Due Process in Relationship to License Denial

Summary Suspensions

Getting Cooperation from Third Parties: The Procedural Pitfalls

Investigator Roundtable

Legal Issues Roundtable

Dual Licensure: Issues of Jurisdiction: Investigation and Adjudication

Making the Bad Guys Pay: Who Should Pay for Professional Discipline? Innovative Ways to Balance the Resources

How Effective is Your Disciplinary Process: Review and Discussion on the Elements of an Effective Disciplinary Program

The Outside and Internal Forces Affecting the Disciplinary Process: The Potholes and Bumps Along the Road to Decision

Innovative Disciplinary Resolution: Alternatives to the Formal Investigation and Hearing Process

Health Care Fraud I & II

The Management of Multiple Investigations: Impact of Leadership, Quality Improvement and Competing Interests

The Role of the Consumer in the Disciplinary Process: Partner, Victim, Enemy

Fraudulent Credentials - What's Out There and the Latest in Preventive/Detection Technology

Finding: Gross Negligence -- Decision: Revocation -- Reinstatement: Professional Reentry v. Public Protection?

Model Grounds for Disciplinary Action

Impaired Practitioners - Are Diversion/Disciplinary Programs Working?

Overview of the Regulatory Process; Alternatives to the Formal Hearings Process

The Politics of Discipline

Opioid Use - Implications for Discipline

Considerations in Costs vs. Fees

E-Government and Virtual Customer Support

Leadership Development of Board Members

Using Focus Groups to Address Regulatory Issues

Online Renewal: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

HIPAA (Records and Federal Mandates)

ADR in Policymaking

Regulatory Concerns with Distance Education

Regulatory Agency Evaluations Systems

Streamlining the Licensing Process: Making the Process Work for All

Combined Administrative Structure for Regulation of Health Professionals and Health Facilities

Customer Friendly Regulation

U.S. Policies Changing State Regulation

Customer Call Center

Improving Board Effectiveness

Administering Impaired Practitioner Program

The Big Picture: Policy Trends

Thinking Outside the Nine Dots

How to Work with Today's Employees

Update Potpourri: Mutual Recognition NAFTA and PEW

The Immigration Naturalization Service (INS) Relationship to Regulatory Activities

Do the Latest Trends In Regulatory Reform Really Work?

Walking the Tight Rope of Rendering Practice Advice

The Juggling Act: Reconciling Public Protection with Professional Interest

Organizational Report Card: Measuring Effectiveness

Hiring and Retaining High Performance Employees

Constituency Building

Technology's Impact on Regulatory Functions

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable

Understanding Cultural Diversity

Licensing Information Systems Acquisition

Implications of Mutual Recognition of Licenses

Autonomous Boards Roundtable

Rulemaking - Regulations to Avoid

Contracting/Outsourcing Agency Services

Reporting Licensees: Mandatory and Voluntary Reporting

Best Regulatory Practices

Health Issues Roundtable

Contracts- I

Contracts- II Living with Your Partner or Adversary

Dealing with Stress- A How To

International Roundtable

Deregulation/Alternative Regulation Models

Maintaining Public Protection with Fewer Resources

Consumer Friendly Regulation

Effects of Politics

Dealing with Foreign Applicant Licenses

Disaster Recovery-Planning

Interacting with the Public-Difficult & Dangerous Situations

Information Processing

Re-engineering Your Agency

Fax on Demand-How It Can Conserve Your Resources

When The Media Calls

Do You Need to be Spiderman to Use the Web? A Network Primer

Surf The Web-or What Do I Do with this Internet Anyway?

Moving Toward Market Transaction

Optical Imaging Retention

Universal Standards & Reciprocity

Implementing a "Turnkey" Licensing System

Monitoring Restricted Licenses

Whose Interests are Being Served? The Impact of Special Interest Groups on Regulation

Telemedicine/Telehealthcare- What’s Up

Internet Applications & Other Adventures in Technology

Issues & Concerns When Developing or Re-examining Eligibility Requirements for Licensure & Certification

Major Legislative Reform-How to Manage Through It, How to Survive

Entering the Information Highway

Sexual Harassment

Public Relations I & II

Tracking and Monitoring Restricted License

Privacy Standards

Dealing with Difficult Situations I & II

Disaster Recovery I & II

The New World Order - Trading Professions

Enhancing Your Board's Image Through Technology

Is Your Contractor on Target? Evaluating Performance

How to Get the Most "Bang for Your Buck" The Vendor's Perspective

Where's The File? Alternatives to Paper Credentials

The U.S. Supreme Court and Licensing

Ethics - What the Manager Needs to Know

Interacting With the Public - Difficult and Dangerous Situations

General Trade Agreement & Professional Services-Enhancing, Understanding and Implications of Various Trade Agreements

NAFTA-Meeting the Deadline

GATT-What is it and How Does It Affect Professional Regulation?

Trilateral Initiative- How to Session on Harmonization of Standards of Practice, Education, Regulation

International Outreach-Developing Global Partnerships Across the Regulatory Community

Communication Issues in International Assessment

Consumer Involvement in Regulation International Trends

Major Legislative Reform: New Ways of Protecting the Public-Licensing Acts Rather Than the Person

Legal Issues Roundtable

The Relevance of Autonomous Boards

Global Differences in Regulatory Models

Hot Issues Roundtable

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable

Investigator Roundtable: What is Evidence and What is Not?

Health Issues Roundtable

Calling All Board Members

International Roundtable 

ABC's of Public Members

Be Effective: Be Autonomous - An Autonomous Board Administrator Roundtable

Central Agency Administrators Roundtable

International Session

Health Issues Roundtable

"Investigators R Us" A Roundtable for Investigators

Legal Issues

International Session

The CLEAR Summit Update

Autonomous Board Administrators

Central Agency Administrators

Legal Issues Roundtable

International Roundtable

Investigator's Speak Out Roundtable

Health Issues

Attorney Roundtable

Autonomous Boards Administrator Roundtable

#3 Autonomous Boards Administrators

Central Agency Administrators' Roundtable I

Information Systems Roundtable (or MIS for Poets)

Central Agency Administrators' Roundtable II