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Caring for Caregivers

As she tried to control the desperation in her voice, the nurse at Charity Hospital in New Orleans described on CNN the working conditions she and her...

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Katrina Aftermath Dear Editor: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ripping through the gulf states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama it is fitting...

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Pharma Codes, Euro-Style

Germany and Sweden have issued codes of conduct for relationships between CME providers, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, announced speakers...

Update: Senate Pharma Grants Probe

As of late August, the Senate Committee on Finance had finished collecting an initial set of responses from pharmaceutical companies concerning educational...

Best Practice: Updated Standards Disclosure Forms

I manage the education for an association that has 180 courses, 35 symposia presentations, 510 paper presentations, more than 500 poster exhibits, and...

Ziemnik on the Move

Suzanne Ziemnik, MEd, has joined the American Society for Clinical Pathology in Chicago as senior vice president, education and assessment. Ziemnik was...

Educate Faculty About Regulations

CME providers are generally quite adept at conforming to current requirements for development of compliant activities. Faculty, too, are generally guideline-compliant...

System Collapse?

Change keeps coming. It doesn't take a genius to read the tea leaves here. To us, it signals a potential system collapse. Let's look at two incidents...

How to Get Commercial Support

The world of commercial support is changing, and CME providers find themselves frustrated and confused by all the new forms, online grant-request processes,...

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Hurricane Leaves Planners Scrambling

Just five days after Hurricane Katrina, the American Society for Microbiology, organizers of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy...

ASAE Unites at Meeting

It's been more than a year since two major Washington, D.C based industry associations (the American Society of Association Executives and the Greater...

Act Now: It's Pharma Budget Season

Attention medical meeting and CME planners! It's budgeting season at pharmaceutical companies right now. This is the one time of year that medical marketers...

Reflections on the London Attacks

I lived and worked in London for many years before moving to the United States. Subsequent to the bomb attacks of July 7 and the attempted bombings two...

CVBs: Your New Marketing Partners

CONVENTION AND VISITORS bureaus across the country are pushing hard to attract meeting attendees, offering a wide range of services from voicemail blasts...

Pharma Meetings

Duffy and Gore Wow MPI

TWO DYNAMIC WOMEN set the stage and tone for the high-energy Meeting Professionals International's World Education Congress July 10 to 12 at the Miami...

Get Ready for APEX OfficeReady

Imagine more than 200 event management and business templates available at the click of a mouse everything from meeting checklists and event specification...

CEO to Keynote MM Pharma Forum

Gary C. Cupit, PharmD, president and CEO of biopharmaceutical company Rejuvenon, Bridgewater, N.J., will give the opening keynote presentation at the...

Starwood's Cool Tool for Day Meetings

Catering-only events can be critical for pharma companies, but have often been low-priority for hotels. Now, hotel chains have apparently started to recognize...

The Man of a Hundred Voices

Eyes closed, you'll swear you are at a live concert with Macy Gray, Johnny Cash, Ozzy Osbourne, Garth Brooks, Kermit the Frog, Elvis, Neil Young, and...

Sites & Venues

CONVENTION CENTERS

THE $271 MILLION Connecticut Convention Center at Adriaen's Landing opened in June in Hartford. The building, which began construction in 2001, is 540,000...

Mountain Meetings

WHAT'S NEW Spas are hot across the nation, and the resorts of the Rocky Mountains are taking advantage of the trend. The older resorts of the area grew...

Border CROSSINGS

CHINA: Wakened Giant When I visited Shanghai and Beijing recently, I was floored by the changes China has seen in the last few years. Pudong, on the other...

Second Opinion

The Big Uneasy

As I write this, I'm watching images of a city I no longer recognize New Orleans. Death, destruction, debris, despair, and debilitating rage have taken...

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