“IN THE MIDST of an uncertain year, business has been amazing. All I can say is, life is great,” said Roger Helms, president and CEO of HelmsBriscoe, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based site selection company. He made his remarks during the 11th Annual...

“WHEN I FIRST STARTED planning events, I found a lot of hotel managers thought they had to train me how to do my job. Once I got a CMP, there was [usually] an assumption that my knowledge was there,” says Wanda Johnson, CMP (Certified Meeting...

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, when many of our current CME leaders began their careers as medical educators, the field was narrow, fragmented, and insular — yet somehow less pressured. While the task of designing quality programs for physicians was never...

“Exhibits aren't just a place to get a bag or trinket; they are places where attendees learn about the newest approved indications for drugs as well as new techniques and surgical devices,” said Kevin Wohlfort in the “Consult” column of Medical...

Wentworth by the Sea resort will reopen in April as a Marriott hotel, conference center, and spa, restoring the historic hotel to the prominence it enjoyed for a century after opening in 1874. Located in New Castle, N.H., and overlooking the...

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The good news, according to meeting industry recruiters, is that medical organizations, particularly pharmaceutical and medical communication firms, have among the healthiest meetings departments these days, with few layoffs and a fair amount of...

This excerpt, from an editorial by Betsy Bair, editorial director, Meetings Group, ran in the December 3 edition of MeetingsNet Xtra, the e-newsletter for MM and its four sister magazines. It is followed by a response from one of MM's readers...

“THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry has been embroiled in an entertainment arms race — and it has not served anyone well.” So declared L. Stephan Vincze, ethics and compliance officer, TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc., Lake Forest, Ill., during his...

THIS YEAR'S SURVEY is a tale of shifting demographics, with implications for the marketing strategies of CME providers. To set the scene, we begin with two sets of data from the American Medical Association, in addition to our own survey results...