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.
Do you want an ophthalmologist using a piece of equipment to take out your cataracts after he or she has been to a conference supported by some company with a financial interest in people using its equipment? I don't," says Ruth M. Glotzer, MEd...
It's getting close to the end of the school year. Time to think about exams, cleaning out your locker, and summer vacation. So, get your blue books out and sharpen your pencils; it's time for a quick quiz to see how your legal knowledge is coming...
Would you risk thousands of dollars and months of investing human capital with only a 10 percent chance of success? When it comes to new program development, that's the gamble you take every time a new offering goes to market. Nine out of ten will...
HEALTH CARE Donald S. Nelinson, PhD, has joined Health Science Communications In reply to: New York City as senior vice president, CME division. He most recently served as vice president, educational services, with Impact Communications, Inc....
Taking a Stand NMA BOYCOTTS WASHINGTON STATE The National Medical Association has pulled its 2001 annual convention out of Seattle to protest an anti-affirmative action initiative approved by Washington State voters in November. The boycott...
Timothy M. Strobl has been named director of sales at the Nashville (Tenn.) Convention Center. Strobl has spent seven years at the convention center, most recently as interim director of sales...
SICK OF SPONSORING cold convention breakfasts and busy coffee breaks? Veterinary Learning Systems of Trenton, N.J., wanted to build awareness of its new Web site and found an unusual--and fitting--sponsorship opportunity at the North American...
Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers ASSOCIATION NOTES There are about 10,000 naturopaths practicing holistic medicine in the U.S., part of what the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates is a $27 billion...
Conference center managers have learned a new word: flexibility. For years, planners said that conference centers were outstanding meeting facilities but had two drawbacks--rates were too high and the Complete Meeting Package (CMP) forced them to...
