“EVERYONE'S AFRAID,” says Janice Miller, director, CME, Brown Medical School, Providence, R.I. “Pharmaceutical companies have their legal departments working overtime to protect themselves from the threat of a huge, multibillion-dollar fine. I don...
RECENT CHANGES in security measures for foreign visitors have the potential to affect international meetings held in the United States. A new program called US-VISIT was implemented at 115 airports and 14 major seaports on January 5, 2004. The new...
ALMOST 15 YEARS have elapsed since the FDA caught the attention of the CME world with its proposed draft guidance on regulation of commercially supported educational activities. The fear of government involvement became a rallying point for many...
At Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., the big issue three years ago was how to liven up its grand rounds programs. Donna Beales, MLIS, librarian and CME coordinator for the hospital, says the audience-response system they bought to perk...
Few people understand online meeting registration systems — or most meeting technologies, for that matter — as well as Jeff Rasco, president of Attendee Management Inc., Wimberley, Texas. Medical Meetings had the opportunity to sit down with him...
The increasing difficulty of obtaining commercial support in the new regulatory environment, the explosive growth in MECCs, and other CME provider dilemmas were on the agenda at a session led by Wanda Johnson, CMP, senior director, meetings and...