A guest blog from Kevin Bunnell, EdD, a CME consultant based in Boulder, Colo., and former Alliance for CME president, commenting on the opinions of attorney Jim Miles, of Miles & Peters, PC, on Stark II thatI posted recently (click here to...

This one just doesn t want to go away. The latest issue of AMANews has ...

AMA president John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, has this this to say about the grant it recently received from the Department of Homeland Security for its disaster preparedness course. ...

You may not know about it, but we have a special learning leadership section on the Medical Meetings Web site that has all sorts of tips on how to improve your leadership skills. Along with the learning modules are case studies you can use to test...

The Professional Convention Management Association, Chicago, is about seven months into a process of developing a list of core competencies its members need to improve and expand their meetings in today’s increasingly competitive environment. "We...

“The key to our future is finding innovative ways to help exhibitors,” observed Sam Lippman, co-organizer of the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum, held in May in Washington, D.C. That pretty much captured the main theme at the third...

A new certification program focusing on the business of planning meetings was among the new initiatives announced at the American Society of Association Executives’ annual meeting and exposition, August 14-17, at the Minneapolis Convention Center...

One of the bedrock economic indicators for the convention industry over the years has been average delegate/exhibitor expenditures—data compiled by the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus in its Convention Income Survey...

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) bill, introduced by Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., and Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, was enacted in 2002 to increase corporate responsibility and to curtail accounting scandals. But the impact of the legislation is not limited...

I wouldn t normally think of an the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting as being of interest to medical meeting providers, but in this case, I think it s relevant. ...