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After announcing in December that it was in the initial phase of developing a medical meeting planner certification program, the Professional Meeting...More

As most of you probably know, biotechnology company Serono, based in Geneva, Switzerland, agreed in October to pay $704 million to the United States federal...More

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

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,...More

While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning phase of developing a certification program that will measure medical meeting planners’ knowledge...More

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

CME IS ON THE FEDERAL radar screen once again. This time the U.S. Senate is investigating pharma companies' educational grants, including funding for...More

Mark your calendars: Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence are currently planning the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners...More

The typical approach to controlling meeting costs in pharmaceutical companies is to do so externally that is, to manage expenses through relationships...More

I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER to laugh, cry, or bang my head against the wall after most of the interviews I did for this issue's cover story (see page 38). Are...More

WHEN I STOOD at the lectern to make my opening remarks at the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum this spring and looked across the meeting...More

If we book a resort, I can lose my job. That's what a pharma meeting planner told Michael T. Aylmer, senior director, pharmaceutical sales, KSL Resorts,...More