05-AUG-C-9
MARY ANNE BEEBE’S INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
IN HER DOCTORAL DISSERTATION THESIS RESEARCH ON
“KNOWLEDGE MAPPING” FOR ONCOLOGISTS,
AND MY DISCLAIMERS BEFORE AGREEING
TO PARTICIPATE
August 31, 2005
Yes, I should be available either of the dates Oct.
22 or 23, and might suggest Sunday afternoon on the 23rd for the second
session.
You might come over for the informal part and then
we will get as formal as you would like wherever you wish!
I have a very long track record with Merck, which we
can compare, since I was the head of their "surgical faculty" which I
helped to found. Elliott Margolis, MD
was the in-house CME guru at that time and I knew most of your training and
education types--especially all of the MSA's in
several of the specialities--ID, and Education
especially. Jeannie Regnante
who was the local DM here in DC was on the fast track and after going to HQ I
heard last was being moved over from Astra. I still associate regularly with many of the
specialty reps as they go through whatever perturbations of the new marketing,
since I had a hand in formulating a few of the "arm's length
policies" when I had lectured in my late MSD friend Wayne Ebrite's Johns Hopkins classes. We can compare names and decades of rapid
changes when we "do lunch."
I am eager to see you move forward with your
dissertation research phase since I will be following closely behind you as I
am now in the "first cuts" of formulating the process of my own ideas
of transformational leaning experiences among the students I carry with me to
the remote parts of the developing world (a couple of short drafts are
attached.)
I look forward to participating as an "inside
outsider!"
Cheers!
GWG
>>> "Beebe-Ally, Maryann" <maryann_beebe@merck.com> 8/30/2005 4:04 PM
>>>
Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
I am happy to set our first meeting for Saturday,
Sept. 17 around 1:00 pm!
For our second meeting, would October 22 or 23 work
in your schedule?
I like the idea of visiting before our meeting
starts. Would you accept my
invitation to meet for lunch at a local restaurant prior to
our 1:00 working
session? We can
compare notes about our experiences in the cohort program!
Your offer to have the meeting in your home is most
generous. I think I
would feel too comfortable in a home setting. The Boardroom provides an
atmosphere that is conducive to formal data collection.
Over our lunch together I would be interested in
your experiences with
Merck, if that is not too personal. I remember you saying that you
partnered with Merck for some international initiative in
antibiotics. I
like talking about industry related things.
Merck paid for my MBA and my first doctorate, so I
guess they thought that
was enough. My
boss said my work was top notch and I did not need further
education. I really
wanted to participate in this Ed.D. program so I
decided to pay for it myself.
I look forward to your confirmation about lunch and
location on Sept. 17 as
well as your availability on either Oct. 22 or 23.
All the best,
Maryann
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Geelhoed [mailto:msdgwg@gwumc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:58 PM
To: maryann_beebe@merck.com
Subject: RE: Invitation to participate in an
oncologist research initiative
e e
OK--let's start with the first of the first sessions--Saturday
Sept 17
after your meeting with Dave Schwandt. I may propose something even
better than the Hampton Inn conference room under the
assumption that
you will be checking out and driving back to
could come up 270 and pop on over to my home. Someone should be using
it as often as I leave it vacant on my frequent travel
schedule!
I will attach directions. I can also meet anywhere along the way, but
this may make it possible for us to visit a little
around your
interview.
The second is a non-starter which I had listed in
the letter I had
posted to you since I will be gone the evening of the ELDP
weekend in
October and in a remote part of
will try to arrange whatever else may work for an
alternative.
I was impressed with your disclosure statement since
I know Merck
rather well, but did not know that they were not
sponsoring your EdD
ELDP program. Shame on
them for not doing so!
That makes both you AND your next degree portable!
I will work out further details of our second
session as you can
arrange it.
Cheers!
GWG
>>> "Beebe-Ally, Maryann" <maryann_beebe@merck.com> 8/30/2005 1:49 PM
>>>
Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
You are impressive!
Thanks for being so proactive with the informed
consent. You are a
step ahead!
I am glad you saw Skip. He has been a great person on my dissertation
committee. He will
undoubtedly be a strong advocate for your work.
Let's pick dates!
I can propose something, but please feel free to
make
counter suggestions that best fit your schedule.
1st
Session (1-1/2 hours)
Saturday,
Sept. 17 at 1:00 pm; or
Sunday,
Sept. 18 at 9:30 am
These
are just proposed times; there is flexibility anytime the
afternoon of Sept 17 or the morning of Sept 18
I
have an appointment with Dr. Schwandt on Saturday,
Sept. 17
at
10:00 am.
Location: The
Hampton Inn in
cohort
members stay) has a Boardroom where we can meet.
Hampton Inn
703-450-9595
2nd
Session (2 hours)
Saturday,
Oct. 15 at 1:00 pm; or
Sunday,
Oct. 16 at 9:30 am
These
are just proposed times; there is flexibility anytime the
afternoon of Oct. 15 or the morning of Oct. 16.
I look forward to hearing your comments on what
works best in your
schedule.
Appreciatively,
Maryann
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Geelhoed [mailto:msdgwg@gwumc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:39 PM
To: maryann_beebe@merck.com
Subject: RE: Invitation to participate in an
oncologist research
initiative
e
I have already signed and dated and mailed the
consent form back to
you!
I was
dropping it in the post when I had bumped into Skip, so I also
mentioned to him both my disclaimers and eagerness to help
you in your
dissertation data gathering.
He will be on my committee also.
I will arrange whatever timing works for you!
GWG
>>> "Beebe-Ally, Maryann" <maryann_beebe@merck.com> 8/30/2005 11:54 AM
>>>
Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
I am humbled and delighted that you are willing to
participate!
I double-checked the wording in my dissertation
about my inclusion
criteria.
Luck is on my side because I did not specify medical
or surgical
oncologist
in the text (although medical oncologist was what I
was thinking at
the
time). I believe
your experience as a surgeon, your rich and diverse
experience, and your work in a teaching hospital setting will
add an
element
to the data that would be missing without you.
Let us proceed!
Enclosed is an invitation/confirmation letter about
the
study as well as the informed consent form. As the letter describes
on
the
second page, I look forward to hearing about the dates
that work best
in
your schedule.
All the best,
Maryann
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Geelhoed [mailto:msdgwg@gwumc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:12 AM
To: maryann_beebe@merck.com
Subject: Re: Invitation to participate in an
oncologist research
initiative
The pleasure, Wonder Woman, would be all mine!
First, you should have the disclaimer as my
"un-qualifier." I am not
now a card-carrying Oncologist of the "Heme-Onc" sort, and although I
once belonged to ACOG and SWOG etc, I do not now
regularly attend such
events. I am, and
always have been a Surgical Oncologist, as
reflected
by my membership in the SOS (Surgical Oncology Society,
formerly the
Ewing Society) and had been an active associate of
the Surgery Branch
of
the National Cancer Institute for Five Years. When full time in the
Surgery Department at GWU I headed up several
Oncology protocols,
continuing my position as the Head of the Surgical Breast
Oncology
Division at NCI. However, I
am not now operating AT GWU but
everywhere
world-wide, as evidenced by what you had recently received
from my
expedition to
Oncology (I have a book for Board Preparation.
entitled "The Study of
Surgery"--which you can Google or Amazon to
check out) but, I do what
needs doing for citizens of the developing world (the
most recent book
is "Surgery and Healing in the Developing
World," Landes BioScience
which you can also Google up or see the attached note.
Given all these qualifiers (or exclusion criteria)
if you are judging
the credentialing for my inclusion or "outlier
status" for
exclusion--I
am surely unique among your choices--I am wiling to participate
to
help
you along in the same process I will be following a
year behind you
into
dissertation stage!
Let me know if I have prejudiced myself out of your
further
consideration, or whether the intrigue continues!
Cheers!
GWG
>>> "Beebe-Ally, Maryann" <maryann_beebe@merck.com> 8/29/2005 7:00 PM
>>>
Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
It was a pleasure getting reacquainted with you at
the recent Cohort
15/16
weekend. You have an
impressive array of medical specialty expertise
on
your business card.
In follow-up to our conversation during the break at
the celebration,
I
would like to officially invite you to be a participant
in a
phenomenological research initiative looking at how oncologists make
sense
of professional/organizational competing values. You meet the
inclusion
criteria of being an oncologist working in a teaching
hospital for
more
than
one year. You
will also be making an important contribution to the
social
sciences.
If you agree to participate, we would meet twice in
person. The first
time
will be for an in-depth interview lasting approximately
90 minutes.
The
second meeting is a working session lasting up to 2
hours. Your
personal
information will be kept confidential as you will assign a
pseudo name
for
yourself.
The purpose of the first session is to talk about
two different
situations
you have been in that were important, professional
situations where
the
trade-offs among the alternatives were difficult. Before our second
meeting
my job is to create a knowledge map that illustrates
the process of
each
scenario. In the
second meeting you critique the knowledge maps so
that if
I did not accurately represent something it can be
corrected, or if
something needs more elaboration it can be included. In
phenomenological
research, I will then look at the knowledge maps you and the
others
provide
to find the common structure of the lived experience,
as well as
similarities and variances among them.
It would be an honor to have the richness of your
experiences included
in
this study. I would
like to re-emphasize that your personal
information
will be kept confidential.
May I have the pleasure of including you in the
study?
Best regards,
Maryann
908-423-4383 work
610-997-3944 home
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