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.
Cathy Pagano, president of CME Matters LLC, says she would probably be perfectly happy working in the tile department at Home Depot. And yet she chose—and continues to choose, every day—to be in the continuing medical education field, despite all...
One good thing about long commutes is that they give people like Daniel Guinee, MBA, CHCP, lots of time to listen to ebooks. When Guinee, who is executive vice president of continuing medical education provider ASiM, started listening to The Powe...
Mike Roberts President and Chief Operating Officer Rx Worldwide Meetings, Inc., a division of Infinix (left) moderating the physician panel at Pharma Forum 2016Pharmaceutical, biomedical, and other life sciences meeting managers plan a lot of mee...
When participants from 28 healthcare organizations and continuing medical education, pharmacy, and nursing accreditors gathered in Chicago last spring for the Leadership Summit for Jointly Accredited Providers, they were on a mission to figure ou...
The version of the 21st Century Cures Act that the U.S. House of Representatives passed last week no longer contains the provision that would have exempted pharmaceutical companies from having to disclose funds spent on continuing medical...
The way author and trainer Merrick Rosenberg looks at the world, the Golden Rule gets turned on its ear. The CEO of Take Flight Learning told the more than 800 meeting professionals at the 2016 Pharma Forum that successful relationships aren’t ab...
Four women executives shared career advice during a mainstage panel discussion at Pharma Forum 2016, held March 20–23 at New York City’s Marriott Marquis. Though billed as way to help women break the glass ceiling, the conversation...
Jere Thomas is a brave soul. Midway through her presentation at the Pharma Forum, she asked her audience of medical meeting professionals and suppliers to reveal, via audience response technology, what other tasks they’d been tending to...
Cvent Founder and CEO Reggie Aggarwal will serve as CEO of the newly merged company.Cvent and Lanyon Solutions have officially merged into one global meeting, event, and travel technology company. Lanyon’s owner, Vista Equity Partners, reported t...
What if you could bring together an engaged group of people with different backgrounds and expertise but with a shared passion to innovate solutions for a monumentally challenging problem? Would real solutions be found?
One model for this typ...