Ayuko Kimura-Fay is keeping a close eye on Philadelphia. As the director of meetings for the Washington, D.C. — based American Society of Hematology, she has high hopes that the union situation will see some improvements before her 18,000-plus...

“Do you allow electronic media to wander at will? That is a very bad idea. We make all press wear name badges with big fat ribbons that say PRESS.” ...

The 250 meeting planning and destination management company executives huddled around roundtables at Washington, D.C.'s, J.W. Marriott one weekend this summer had no small task: They were plotting how to thrive in the new “meeting” economy...

The Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., which specializes in physician symposia, CME events, and other small medical meetings, has spun off a new company to resell online registration services and try to make Web registration and...

My wife, Mary Lou, and I retreat each summer to our cabin in the Lake Wobegon region of Northern Minnesota. This renews us both spiritually and intellectually; and so it is the perfect place to write about the topics covered in this issue of...

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September 11 — related travel declines and the collapse of Ansett Australia airlines last fall aren't daunting to doctors looking to head Down Under. Earlier this year Sydney was home to medical events including international congresses on...

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education took another step toward releasing a revision of its Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education at a Council meeting held in July in Chicago...

The Institute of Medicine brought approximately 160 national experts to Washington, D.C., this summer. Their mission was to explore ways to restructure health profession education to better prepare health care professionals to practice in a world...

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