And another CME person in the news: Center for Advanced Medical Education, Inc. has hired William Amberg as vice president, Development and Grants. Amberg brings 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing and promotion, medical education...

Earlier this month, the Beam Institute appointed Bill Romano to be its director of educational services, where he will work with commercial supporters of Continuing Medical Education activities. He will also work closely with The Oncology Group...

AmerisourceBergen Corp. is planning to shell out about $90 million to buy Network for Medical Communications & Research LLC, a privately held provider of physician accredited continuing medical education (CME) and analytical research for the...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the January 3 2006 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine...

Associates in Medical Marketing recently created a separate company to handle all of its continuing medical education projects, according to a press release...

Robert Raszkowski, MD, PhD, who passed away in November at the age of 64, was highly regarded in the CME community. He was an active member of the Alliance for CME for 20 years, served as dean of CME at the University of South Dakota School of...

The Historic Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne, Switzerland, has opened an $8 million, full-service spa with nine treatment rooms, including a private couples suite. The hotel, a Belle Époque gem sited on 10 acres of parkland on the shores of Lake...

After Announcing in December that it was in the initial phase of developing a medical meeting planner certification program, the Professional Meeting Planner Network, Durham, N.C., began sending a survey to a cross-section of CME and meeting...