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.
LAST SUMMER, when the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America issued its Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, there was some grumbling that medical device companies were still off the hook when it came to wooing docs...
Talk about perseverance. Betsy Bondurant, CMP, associate director, meeting planning and trade show, for Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., spent a fitful five years building the case for a corporate-mandated process by which meetings are sourced and...
“THERE'S NO TURNING BACK NOW. It's another world,” says Steve Passin, president, Steve Passin & Associates, LLC, a CME consulting firm in Newtown Square, Pa. He's talking about the effects of recent regulatory changes — the Pharmaceutical...
I HAD THE PRIVILEGE of visiting with my 18-year-old niece Emily, an aspiring surgeon, right after she finished a two-week internship at a local emergency room. She sparkled with enthusiasm as she described watching doctors treat gunshot wounds...
EVERYONE KNOWS that professional speakers love to tell stories and use generalities in their speeches. What better topic to have fun with than that of gender issues in the workplace? We probably have all either heard of or read the book by John...
Telenursing — in which nurses deliver, manage, and coordinate patient care and services via telecommunication technology — is one of the fastest growing areas in healthcare. That's why the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, Pitman, N.J....
THE OLDEST GOLF COURSE in the Bahamas just got a $4.5 million facelift, and it was unveiled to meeting and golf media under a blazing Caribbean sun in February...
The association in June named John H. Graham IV to be its new president and CEO, effective August 1. Graham comes to ASAE from the American Diabetes Association, where as president and CEO he oversaw a leap in annual revenues from $50 million to ...
Marianne Yeager, professional programs manager at GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia, was presented with HCEA's Distinguished Service Award during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association, June 7 to 10 in Palm...
Association meetings and conventions directors' paychecks are growing, from a mean of $59,772 in 2001 to $60,500 in 2002, according to the 14th Edition of the Association Executive Compensation & Benefits Survey, which was released by the...
