Videoconferencing

The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has installed state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology for communicating with employees inside the organization as well as with industry representatives, consumers, healthcare professionals, academia, and other government agencies.

CDER's videoconferencing enhances face-to-face meetings by allowing participants the opportunity to listen, watch and participate "live" in a normal two-way conversation.

Videoconferencing can be used for such diverse purposes as:

• delivering a speech to an overseas audience from CDER facilities;
• "attending" a committee meeting being held in another city;
• interviewing prospective new employees;
• "attending" a training session being held in another city;
• holding a product review meeting with a division located in another CDER building.

CDER currently has videoconferencing capabilities in the Parklawn building, Woodmont Office Complex II, and Corporate Boulevard building.

For more information on the Center's videoconferencing capabilities or to schedule an event, telephone CDER's Office of Training and Communications at (301) 827-1243.

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Handbook.