A panel at the Fall CMEpalooza said continuing healthcare professional education that brings together nurses, physicians, pharmacists—and even patients—is an idea gaining momentum

This year, almost 15,000 veterinary professionals swarmed the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for one of the nation’s oldest vet conferences. But that’s just the start of WVC’s efforts to reach—and teach&mdash...

Meetings industry professionals from three North American countries are dedicating April 16, 2015, as a day to showcase the value of meetings, conferences, conventions, incentive travel, tradeshows, and exhibitions. Meetings professionals in Cana...

The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals will be ringing in some significant changes along with the new year. Taking its lead from the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions—which in recent years expande...

Judy JohnsonJudy Johnson, CMP, president, CEO, and co-owner of Plano, Texas–based Rx Worldwide Meetings Inc. since 2000, has sold her medical meeting planning company to Sally and Mike Roberts, both of whom come from the pharmaceutical industry...

A recently launched search-based Web site from startup eMedEvents wants to make it as easy for docs and other healthcare professionals to find the meetings—and the continuing medical education credits they need—as Orbitz or Travelocity have made ...

Ruth Levine, founder of SpeakInc. Speakers bureau, released her list of the most popular female speakers for 2014 in July 2013. That prompted us to get in touch and ask her more about gender and the corporate speaker circuit. MeetingsNet: Do y...

By Deborah Augustus and Ann C. Lichti, CCMEP During the recent Healthcare Financial Management Association meeting, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California San Francisco, touched upon a key concept t...

Members of the “Luminaries of Pharma Meetings Panel,” from left to right: Kimberly Meyer, founder, Meetings Analytics; Martin Hess-Janorschke, senior global event manager, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd; Lisa Meehan, director, N...