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Association Meetings
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Medical Meetings
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Betsy is Editorial Director of MeetingsNet, Penton Media, based in Cambridge, Mass. MeetingsNet includes Association Meetings, Corporate Meetings & Incentives, Medical Meetings, Financial & Insurance Meetings, and Religious Conference Manager magazines, meetingsnet.com, and a weekly e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra. Betsy has served as editorial director of the market-specific magazines since the early 1990s and frequently speaks on meeting planning trends and topics at industry events. She has also served in staff writing positions for Travel Agent magazine and Travel Management Daily.

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Association Meetings
Sue Pelletier, Editor
(978) 448-0377
e-mail: spelletier@meetingsnet.com
Sue, who has been with MeetingsNet since 1998, previously wrote for and edited several national and international trade magazines and newsletters for the environmental industry. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, she also helped to plan a technical trade conference and exposition and several smaller meetings for the environmental industry before deciding to stick with what she does best. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and her surrogate child, Augie the Australian Shepherd.
For a complete list of AM's editorial staff, click here.



Corporate Meetings & Incentives
Barbara Scofidio, Editor
(978) 448-8211
e-mail: bscofidio@meetingsnet.com
Barbara joined Corporate Meetings & Incentives in 1991 and has served as its editor since 1994. She is an active member in many meeting and incentive industry associations, including serving on the education committee for the 2007 SITE International Conference, judging the SITE Crystal Awards for the past 10 years, and serving on the media committee for SITE's 35th Birthday Celebration at the 2008 Motivation Show. A frequent speaker at industry events, Barbara is a past winner of journalism awards from SITE, ASBPE, and Folio. Before joining Penton Business Media, she was managing editor of Computer Design magazine, and a staff writer for Spotlight magazine (now Westchester magazine), in New York. She graduated with honors from Binghamton University in 1984.
For a complete list of CMI's editorial staff, click here.


Financial & Insurance Meetings
Regina Baraban, Editor
(603) 679-4320
e-mail: rbaraban@meetingsnet.com
A graduate of New York University's Masters Program in Publishing Studies, Regina joined MeetingsNet magazines in 1997, after having worked for many years as a contributing editor. She has written for numerous publications, including Business Traveler International, Metropolis, and Crain’s New York Business, and served as editor-in-chief of two interior design magazines. Her work has won awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors and the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International.
For a complete list of FIM's editorial staff, click here.

Medical Meetings
Tamar Hosansky, Editor
(978) 466-6358
e-mail: thosansky@meetingsnet.com
Tamar Hosansky has been covering the medical meetings and continuing medical education (CME) industry since 1996, when she joined Medical Meetings magazine as associate editor. She was named editor in 1999. The American Society of Association Executives included her articles about the precedent-setting pedicle screw case in an informational packet for congressional representatives to support legislation that would protect CME in 1998. In 2001, she was nominated for the American Medical Association Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, and in 2003 she received a Recognition Award for increasing the North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies’ visibility in Medical Meetings magazine. Her editorials in Medical Meetings won an award in 2000 from the American Society of Business Publication Editors; under her editorial direction MM staff writers have also received numerous journalism awards. A professional writer for more than 20 years, Hosansky has written articles for national publications on a variety of topics, including healthcare. She has also co-authored two books: Working Vice, a biography of a female police officer; and Your Children Should Know, a child abuse prevention guide, both published by HarperCollins.
For a complete list of MM's editorial staff, click here


Religious Conference Manager
Larry Keltto, Editor
(507) 455-2136
e-mail: straightrivermedia@msn.com
Larry graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., with a degree in English and attended William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn. During his career in newspapers, Larry earned numerous national honors for his editing, feature writing, enterprise reporting, and layout and design work. He was named Iowa's Outstanding Young Journalist in 1992. Larry also has more than a decade of business-to-business communications experience. An Ohio native, Larry is very active in his church and community; his hobbies include golf, running, and following Ohio State Buckeye football.
For a complete list of RCM's editorial staff, click here.

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