For medical societies that had meetings planned for fall 2005 or early 2006, the decision to move their meetings from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck was not a difficult one. But now that the city is rebuilding its hotel inventory...

The present system for submitting proposals for commercial support can be time-consuming and difficult. While project cost is certainly important to the grant-review process, supporters are interested primarily in assuring that the CME provider's...

Did you know that if you rotate your right foot clockwise and then try to draw the number six in the air with your right hand, your foot will reverse direction? There's nothing you can do about it — it just happens. For some reason, as I sat in...

Returning to the city that hosted its first meeting 50 years ago, the Professional Convention Management Association drew more than 3,000 attendees to its annual meeting in Philadelphia, held January 8 to 11. PCMA's 2005 chairman, Gregg Talley...

As a CME professional, not only must you ensure that your activities are planned and implemented in accordance with Accreditation Council for CME guidelines, but you must also navigate pharmaceutical companies' new computer-driven grants systems...

Medical meeting exhibitors are struggling to interpret how the recent California Marketing Compliance Law, which regulates pharma companies' promotional activities and gifts to physicians, affects their regional and national meeting activities...

The continuing effort to define meeting planning as a profession and to establish it as an important strategic cog in the corporate wheel was front and center during Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference in...

Some attendees hailed a session called Practical Strategies for Better Outcomes, held at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference in San Francisco in January, as the best session on outcomes they had ever attended...