What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
This freaks me out a little: James Sheehan, Associate United States Attorney and this morning's enforcement and compliance speaker at the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum reads Capsules. He even cited something he read here during his talk...
We got off, I think, to a really good start this morning with a couple of excellent talks by a pharma CEO and a pharma chief counsel, both of whom not just had some interesting things to say, but also made us laugh. But first, we asked a series of...
Sunday was filled with more prep work for the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, which we're co-organizing with the Center for Business Intelligence. For me, this meant more work with those bags. One of the items to be stuffed in the bags didn...
While riding the elevator yesterday at the Marriott Philadelphia Towers, where I'm staying for the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, I couldn't help but notice a slight problem with elevator etiquette. You know the way people always face...
Thought I'd take a few minutes to catch up while waiting for my room service dinner. Despite having to come down on a flight that made me get up early on a Saturday (most decidedly not my favorite thing to do), we got here in Philadelphia for the...
I just spoke with someone who's looking for a well-r0unded, experienced CME business manager for a medical education company, someone who also has pharma experience. That's really all I know about the position, unfortunately. If you know of...
I found this post on Gladwell.com to be fascinating. I won't even try to summarize his argument, but he identifies something that all too often isn't taken into account when looking at data, be it data about pitbull attacks or Prozac.
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the current issue of CMAJ: Is medicine still a profession? [editorial] CMAJ. 2006 Mar, 14;174(6):743, 745...
