December 1, 2005 MM

Cover Story

Future Shock

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Sue Pelletier

Enoch Choi, MD, an urgent care physician and partner at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, found himself in a sweltering Wal-Mart parking lot...

Checkup

The Personal Side of Medicine

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Tamar Hosansky Editor thosansky@primediabusiness.com

When I interviewed Marcia Jackson, PhD, American College of Cardiology, for the last installment in our women leaders series (see page 25), she told me...

CME

CME's Public Image Problem

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

CME has a public image problem. So said 84 percent of the attendees polled via audience-response system at an opening panel discussion at this year's...

CME and Katrina

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Robert F. Orsetti

The horror story in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, played out in words and heart-wrenching photographs, is likely to be with us for months or, perhaps,...

Navigating Rough Waters

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Steven M. Passin Susan O'Brien

Frustrated with finding funding for your continuing medical education activity? Tired of completing endless Web-based funding applications for pharmaceutical...

The Power of Consensus

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Tamar Hosansky

I once sang at Carnegie Hall, said Marcia J. Jackson, PhD, senior advisor, education, with the American College of Cardiology in Bethesda, Md. During...

NAAMECC Gets New Board

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

The North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies named four new members to its board of directors at a meeting held in...

Meeting Management

Post-Katrina, Planners Rush to Relocate

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

When Hurricane Katrina slammed through the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and so were a whole lot of medical meetings. Cancellation...

No Free Lunch at AAFP

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

No Free Lunch was miffed when the American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., initially declined its request to exhibit at the AAFP Annual Meeting...

Certification Program for Medical Planners

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners...

MPI to Provide CEUs at MM Conference

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

Meeting Professionals International has come on board as the educational sponsor for the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, and will...

MPI/Amex Release Annual Industry Snapshot/Salary Survey from 2006

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Edited by Sue Pelletier

In Meeting Professionals International's new salary survey, based on 1,139 MPI members' responses gathered last spring, gender pay differences stood out...

The World Is Watching

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Jennifer Goodwin

Medical meeting planners in other countries are struggling with the very same dilemmas we face: How do we conduct CME in a fashion that best serves the...

Communicating During Crises

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Sue Potton, CMM

My last column for Medical Meetings was written shortly after the London bombings. In this issue our attention is focused on the aftermath of Hurricane...

Contracts After Katrina

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, BY BETSY BAIR

Planners with meetings scheduled for the near future in areas hit by Katrina and other recent hurricanes have lots of questions concerning the legal implications...

Pharma Meetings

Braving the Big Easy

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Bob Andelman

For the last seven years, Alcon Laboratories Inc. has broadcast a medical procedure from the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Louisiana, live, via satellite,...

Second Opinion

Maybe It's Time for a Truce

Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Sue Pelletier

I think my favorite moment at this year's Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration was when Gardiner Harris,...