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.
At a CME providers' conference several years ago, I served on a panel where one of the speakers launched into a commercial about her company's product. When participants asked her questions, she responded with more anecdotes about her company...
Satellite symposia are not just live events held in conjunction with your meeting. If you want another source of potential income, you may want to follow the lead of the Society of Interventional Radiology and launch one into cyberspace...
Two months before the 2002 Pan American Congress of Rheumatology, scheduled for June 23 to 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, meeting organizers had to move the conference — not to another convention center or headquarters hotel, or even to another city in...
Now medical meeting planners who work for tax-exempt organizations have another set of regulations to consider. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service last spring came out with their final rules relating to the tax treatment of...
With fewer meetings and attendees to go around, convention and visitor bureaus — which sell their city's convention centers, which in turn fill downtown hotels with out-of-town attendees — are feeling the pinch. Because attendance at trade shows...
Denver really rocked for the near record-breaking 5,700-plus attendees of the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting, held August 18 to 20. From an Earth, Wind & Fire concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater to a reception at Coors...
Jack Morton Worldwide’s client list reads like a Who’s Who in the pharmaceutical industry. Whether it’s for a splashy rollout of a new remedy or a jump-start to sales of an old standby facing new competition, virtually every major medical company...
All the signs pointed to an extremely successful ENDO 2002 annual meeting for The Endocrine Society this past June in San Francisco. “We had record attendance — 20 percent up — record exhibit sales, and record support from industry and abstract...
Virtual ER Wins Virtuel Prize The Laval Virtuel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to MedSMART Inc. (www.med-smart.org) for the use of simulation and IT technologies in distance education and training in medicine. The Laval Virtuel Prize is...
Hey, They're Not All Bad — While researching this issue's cover story on working with CME faculty (see page 38), I heard more than a few horror stories about unethical docs looking for fame and fortune through educational speaking engagements. I...
