Medical Meetings News Archive

ACP-ASIM Appoints New Deputy EVP/COO

May 6, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

John A. Mitas II, MD, FACP, from Fairfax Station, Va., has been appointed deputy executive vice president and chief operating officer of the American...

Polsky Named CEO Of Neurology Association's For-Profit Unit

May 3, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The American Academy of Neurology recently named Bruce A.F. Polsky CEO of AAN Enterpises Inc. (AEI), the association's for-profit subsidiary. AEI currently...

Microsoft and AAFP Work Together To Help Doctors Navigate Technology Choices

May 2, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Microsoft Corp. and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) have announced a software guide resulting from a study of nine practice management...

ACCME, ACPE, AND ANCC Collaborate On Unified Self Study Report For Accreditation of CE Providers

May 1, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing...

Pain Congress Holds Satellite Symposia At Remote Locations

Apr 30, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The Tenth World Congress on Pain will take place August 17 to 22 in San Diego, Calif. at the San Diego Convention Center. This multidisciplinary meeting...

ZLB Bioplasma Launches University of Plasma, Free Online ACPE Program

Apr 29, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

ZLB Bioplasma Inc., a blood plasma product company based in Glendale, Calif., has launched its self-titled University of Plasma, an accredited continuing...

Alliance For CME Seeks Board Nominations

Apr 26, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education is seeking nominations for members to serve on its Board of Directors. These are individuals, selected by...

A Note From The Future: UCLA Equips 3rd-Year Med Students With PDAs

Apr 25, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

UCLA School of Medicine has decided to make material from its website accessible to third-year medical students via personal digital assistants (PDAs)....

RxSchool Hosts Colorado College Of Pharmacy Courses

Apr 24, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

RxSchool, a unit of Denver-based Pharmacy Choice, Inc., hosts a large on-line continuing education (CE) library of ACPE accredited courses for the pharmacy...

American Industrial Hygiene Association: Learning to Meet the Challenges of Bioterrorism

Apr 22, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Bioterrorism is a newly common word in the American vocabulary. But for this group of professionals it is just another wrinkle in their work to protect...

Physicians Urged to Learn the ABCs of Highly Infectious Q Fever

Apr 19, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

In the arsenal of potential bioterror weapons, Q fever is not the most deadly agent, but it could be one of the most effective because of its ability...

Eye Surgery Meeting Showcases Videos

Apr 18, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

If you’re looking for ideas about handling video presentations at medical conferences, you may want to attend the 2002 Annual Symposium and Congress of...

Digestive Disease Week Introduces PDA Version of Itinerary Planner

Apr 17, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

For the first time this year, participants in Digestive Disease Week (DDW) will be able to download conference information from the DDW website to their...

AAOS Steps Up Efforts to Attract Women and Minorities to Orthopaedics

Apr 16, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

"Diversification and qualifications can and should be successful partners," said Vernon T. Tolo, MD, newly elected president of the American Academy of...

Cedars Sinai Turns Weekly Morbidity And Mortality Meetings Into Positive Experience

Apr 14, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Mention Morbidity and Mortality Conference to most surgeons and watch flickers of painful memories play across their features. Many surgeons view these...

British Medical Journal Asks Whether Pharma Companies Are Inventing Diseases

Apr 12, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Are CME providers being used by the pharmaceutical industry to legitimize a treatment for a condition that isn’t really a disease? Did GlaxoSmithKline...

Survey Shows PDAs are Just What the Doctor Ordered

Apr 11, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

You may be offering CME on the Web. But are you offering it in a format that can be read on a personal digital assistant (PDA)? These little devices are...

Doctor-To-Doctor Website: A Model For International Consultation

Apr 10, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The majority of neurosurgeons practicing in developed countries have little or no support each year for medical support missions or an opportunity to...

Physicians World Expands Division To Offer More Business-Related Education

Apr 8, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Physicians World (PW), a publisher and accredited CME provider based in Secaucus, N.J., is expanding its Advanced HealthMarket Strategies (AHS) division...

ETHIC 2002 To Feature Leaders in Healthcare Information Technology

Apr 5, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Leading clinicians, healthcare executives, technology thought leaders and vendors will gather at the Emerging Technologies & Healthcare Innovations Congress...

ETHIC 2002 To Feature Leaders in Healthcare Information Technology

Apr 5, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Leading clinicians, healthcare executives, technology thought leaders and vendors are expected to gather at the Emerging Technologies & Healthcare Innovations...

A New Conference: Looking At Food As Medicine

Apr 4, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

National leaders in medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and business will explore the implications of integrating medicine and food production to benefit...

AAOS Creates New Set Of Outcomes Tools

Apr 3, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

Recognizing the need for standardized, reliable and valid instruments to measure the outcomes of musculoskeletal care, the American Academy of Orthopaedic...

John Jurica, MD and Mark Schaffer, EdM named ACCME Chief Accreditation Surveyors

Apr 1, 2002, Edited By Dave Erickson

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is pleased to announce that John Jurica, MD and Mark Schaffer, EdM have been named...

Pharmaceutical Industry To Tackle Patient Compliance Issues

Mar 29, 2002, David Erickson

Non-compliance costs the pharmaceutical industry an average of $150 billion a year. About 20 percent of all prescriptions are never filled. Fifty percent...

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