John A. Mitas II, MD, FACP, from Fairfax Station, Va., has been appointed deputy executive vice president and chief operating officer of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM). He will join the College...

The American Academy of Neurology recently named Bruce A.F. Polsky CEO of AAN Enterpises Inc. (AEI), the association's for-profit subsidiary...

Microsoft Corp. and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) have announced a software guide resulting from a study of nine practice management systems used in doctors’ offices, to help doctors identify the most appropriate software for...

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) announce their collaboration on a unified Self Study Report for...

The Tenth World Congress on Pain will take place August 17 to 22 in San Diego, Calif. at the San Diego Convention Center. This multidisciplinary meeting has been organized by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), which has...

ZLB Bioplasma Inc., a blood plasma product company based in Glendale, Calif., has launched its self-titled University of Plasma, an accredited continuing education (CE) program for doctors, pharmacists and nurses, as part of its newly unveiled Web...

The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education is seeking nominations for members to serve on its Board of Directors. These are individuals, selected by their peers by mail ballot, who are willing and able to contribute time and energy to the...

UCLA School of Medicine has decided to make material from its website accessible to third-year medical students via personal digital assistants (PDAs). In addition, the IT team has provided custom applications to medical students such as handbooks...

RxSchool, a unit of Denver-based Pharmacy Choice, Inc., hosts a large on-line continuing education (CE) library of ACPE accredited courses for the pharmacy industry. This library contains a variety of courses from ELF Publications, an ACPE...

Bioterrorism is a newly common word in the American vocabulary. But for this group of professionals it is just another wrinkle in their work to protect workers and the community. Industrial hygienists and other occupational and environmental...