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.
“New York City is committed to reaching out to you and making you feel welcome when you have your meetings and conventions here,” Dan Doctoroff, New York's deputy mayor for economic development, told our group of pharmaceutical company executives...
“The problem is not that there isn't enough drug company money available for CME. The problem is that there's so much that it's distorting the entire system.” That was the pro-vocative comment made by Richard Van Harrison, PhD, CME director at the...
In 1982, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) in the United States and the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACME) of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges agreed that their newly...
An article in last Sunday’s Washington Post entitled “Industry Role in Medical Meeting Decried” claims excessive industry influence at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, held May 18 to 23 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now finds sufficient evidence to encourage primary care clinicians to screen their adult patients for depression. Formal screening can make it easier to identify depression, a common and treatable condition...
Innovations in remote medical care will be highlighted at the American Telemedicine Association's (ATA) 7th Annual Meeting and Exposition, June 2-5, in Los Angeles, CA...
Jeffrey Harris, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., professor and chief, division of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, has been elected president of the American Otological Society, the...
The Society for Molecular Imaging will hold its first annual meeting August 24-26, 2002, at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston. The program will include 6 plenary sessions, simultaneous breakout sessions, 2 educational sessions, and two...
