Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Determination of professional competency in a rapidly changing environment...

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal today called Ranking Corporate Reputations, the public ranks the pharmaceutical industry just above tobacco companies when it comes to reputation. There is one exception to the rule, though...

From the Alliance for CME Connection...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey:J Bioeth Inq. 2005;2(2):75-81...

Imagine a faculty member singing, to the tune of the Archies' golden oldie "Sugar Sugar," these lyrics: "Glucose, ah sugar sugar. You are my favorite fuel from the bloodborne substrate pool / Glucose -- monosaccharide sugar -- you're sweeter than...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

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...

My last column for Medical Meetings was written shortly after the London bombings. In this issue our attention is focused on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, its impact on the medical meetings community, and the recovery of New Orleans...

When I interviewed Marcia Jackson, PhD, American College of Cardiology, for the last installment in our women leaders series (see page 25), she told me she had just finished chemotherapy and radiation treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I asked...