Senate CME Report Sparks Controversy
CME professionals' reactions to the Senate Finance Committee report on medical education run the gamut, from those who agree that pharmaceutical company funding results in biased programming to those who think the committee is wasting its time and should focus on other issues, such as Medicare fraud. ...
Uncle Sam Puts the Squeeze on ACCME
Two days after it issued its April 25 report on CME, the United States Senate Committee on Finance followed up with a letter to the Accreditation Council for CME, highlighting its concerns that the ACCME’s oversight is insufficient to guarantee that programs are independent of drug company influence. ...
How Sarbanes-Oxley Has Changed Meetings
Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 26 and 27 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. ...
Attendees' Pet Peeves About Exhibits
The typical exhibit hall is overwhelming and an inefficient learning environment. ...
ACTE, American Purchasing Society Form Strategic Partnership
Bridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives just got a little easier now that the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va., and the American Purchasing Society, Aurora, Ill., have formed a strategic partnership...
Confessions from Exhibitions Anonymous
Trade show organizers have a problem, said Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, to the more 180 people who gathered at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center last week for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum one-day program. ...
Green Learning Lab at Meeting Professionals International PEC-Europe
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting planner and the attendee....
Incentive Research Foundation Hosts Successful First Golf Event
The Incentive Research Foundation hosted its first event, the IRF Incentive Invitational, this past weekend at the Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. ...
Las Vegas Convention Center Renovations Approved
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors approved the budget, timeline, and plans for the renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Most of the work will be completed in 2010, as initially planned, although some meeting room renovations will be completed in 2011 to accommodate trade show clients. ...
The EPA’s Meetings Go Green
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has joined the ranks of organizations that are rethinking the impact of their meetings on the environment. ...
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