Meeting professionals can be some of the heroes of the world because we're out and about. We're not asking planners to be paramedics, but they need to be the eyes and hands in an emergency situation," says Richard Obertots, founder of Warren, Ohio...

Mentoring CME's New Leaders Q: How do you propose the CME community address the issue of developing new leaders...

Recently, several organizations, including the Organization of American Historians, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, canceled scheduled meetings at various Adam's Mark hotels after learning of the hotel chain's...

Medical emergencies will happen at meetings. Often the difference between life and death may be seconds or minutes. Relying on your meeting staff or calling "911" is not the only answer since few meeting venues are adequately trained or prepared...

It should come as no surprise that medical students, weaned on the Web, are the most active users of the giant portal Medsite.com. But there's not much chance the Internet Goliaths will ever completely replace the role of associations or their...

Cue the "Dragnet" music. The rumbling voice of the narrator intones that we will once again visit our hotel contract files to review the raw, the true, the underbelly of the hotel contract world. We will take a look at a real provision addressing...

For Training Only Sheraton Parsippany Responding to the needs of its pharmaceutical company clients, the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel in New Jersey recently transformed 20 guest rooms into dedicated meeting rooms specially equipped for training...

Problems motivate physicians. Products don't," says Henry Slotnick, PhD, PhD, professor of neuroscience, University of North Dakota. "If you say to a doctor, 'Let me tell you about our wonderful product,' the doctor says, 'Today I am supposed to...

Succeeding With Cyber-CME Fire up your browser and visit the Web site of Medical Computing Today (www.medicalcomputingtoday.com) for a look at who's doing what in online continuing medical education (CME). There you'll find a list of 172 Web sites...

* NOTABLE MEETINGS It had to happen: Internet Healthcare 2000, The First Annual Internet Healthcare Conference, was held April 25 and 26 in New York City. None other than George Lundberg, MD, editor-in-chief, Medscape, was the keynote speaker at...