ISCB
Welcomes BJ, New Administrative Officer
The ISCB
is pleased to welcome BJ Morrison McKay as our new full-time
administrative officer. Based at the University of California,
San Diego, McKay succeeds Stanley Jacob at Stanford, who has
served as administrator for the past two years. BJ has some
big shoes to fill, but she is equipped to take us to new levels
in our growth as the predominant scholarly society for computational
biologists.
McKays
previous management experience has been based in the corporate
world of hotels, hospitality and conference administration.
With 20 years of sales experience behind her, she has managed
staffs ranging from five to 15, and run the business development
division of a California consulting firm with a national clientele.
Her employers have included Four Seasons Hotels and Marriott,
medical conference organizers AM Medica Communications, and
a hospitality-consulting firm, The Karro Group, Incorporated.
It was
her understanding of association management that attracted
the ISCB to McKay, and McKay to the ISCB. She has spent years
on the boards of local chapters of San Diego Women in Travel
(SWIT), Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and Society
of International Travel Executives (SITE). For those non-profit
organizations, she upgraded the quality of MPI and SWITs
membership directories, served as SWITs Newsletter Editor
and Membership Director, acted as a board of directors parliamentarian
and chapter support liaison for MPI, and served on the education
committee of SITE. Most recently she has tackled the task
of creating San Diego MPIs Chapter of the Year submission,
creating a 400 page document on the goals, accomplishments
and activities for the fiscal year, which the international
headquarters will judge among other entries from its 20,000-member
organization.
When shes
not busy with Society business, McKay heads for the great
outdoors. She enjoys hiking the California mountains and deserts
with her husband, Jim, and their dog Whiskey, a Queensland
Heeler, and is currently training for a three-day, 60 mile
walk to raise funds for breast cancer research. Shes
also a dedicated swimmer with a preference for outdoor lap
pools, rain or shine, swimming an average of 5000 meters a
week.
McKay
says that organizational skills and the ability to get things
done are essential to the success of her role. Her initiative
and an entrepreneurial spirit are the elements that can help
the ISCB to grow and thrive as a vibrant community of scientists,
providing excellent services and benefits to its members.
McKay can be reached at admin@iscb.org.
Contact
Information
Questions, comments, and suggestions may be
posted to:
International Society for Computational Biology
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
Room 3230
9500 Gilman Drive
MC 0743
La Jolla, CA 92093-0743 USA
Tel: +1 760 522 8805
Fax: +1 760 888 0313
Email: bj@iscb.org
http://www.iscb.org
For
specific queries, please refer to the following
Membership: membership@iscb.org
Corporate: corporate@iscb.org
Sponsorship: sponsorship@iscb.org
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