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...

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, a scientific reporter for The New York Times, said, “But can't the commercial supporter view a...

Meeting Professionals International has come on board as the educational sponsor for the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, and will provide CEUs for attendees. Organized by Medical Meetings and the Center for Business...

The horror story in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, played out in words and heart-wrenching photographs, is likely to be with us for months or, perhaps, years to come. It was truly incomprehensible to see hundreds of “refugees” on U.S. soil fleeing...

No Free Lunch was miffed when the American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., initially declined its request to exhibit at the AAFP Annual Meeting in San Francisco in September. No Free Lunch is a New York — based organization that...