HEALTH CARE Donald S. Nelinson, PhD, has joined Health Science Communications In reply to: New York City as senior vice president, CME division. He most recently served as vice president, educational services, with Impact Communications, Inc....

Taking a Stand NMA BOYCOTTS WASHINGTON STATE The National Medical Association has pulled its 2001 annual convention out of Seattle to protest an anti-affirmative action initiative approved by Washington State voters in November. The boycott...

Timothy M. Strobl has been named director of sales at the Nashville (Tenn.) Convention Center. Strobl has spent seven years at the convention center, most recently as interim director of sales...

The disclosure police have a tough beat. Attendees peppered Collins with questions: What if-...

SICK OF SPONSORING cold convention breakfasts and busy coffee breaks? Veterinary Learning Systems of Trenton, N.J., wanted to build awareness of its new Web site and found an unusual--and fitting--sponsorship opportunity at the North American...

Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers ASSOCIATION NOTES There are about 10,000 naturopaths practicing holistic medicine in the U.S., part of what the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates is a $27 billion...

Conference center managers have learned a new word: flexibility. For years, planners said that conference centers were outstanding meeting facilities but had two drawbacks--rates were too high and the Complete Meeting Package (CMP) forced them to...

BRAND NEW February saw the grand opening of Covington, Ky.'s 204,000-square-foot Northern Kentucky Convention Center, with its 47,000-square-foot exhibition hall, divisible into two spaces; a 23,000-square-foot ballroom, and ten meeting rooms...

Consider the following case: Your continuing professional education program, in conjunction with an array of stakeholders (sponsoring department, course director, CPE committee, commercial supporter, parent organization), decides to launch a new...

Long-time adult-learning advocate and researcher Henry B. Slotnick, PhD, PhD, professor of neuroscience, University of North Dakota, won the 1999 William Campbell Felch/Wyeth-Ayerst Award for Research in CME for his project on self-directed...