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.
More than 800 association executives and vendors turned out for the second annual technology conference of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), cosponsored by MCI and the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was a mind-boggling display of...
Medical meeting planners know that special recreational events add sizzle-and value-to meetings. Who could forget an incentive trip that included snorkeling, scuba diving, skiing, in-line skating, boating, or a desert jeep ride? Yet new and...
Karen S. Jordan will be one of a handful of women to head a national association after she joins the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) as president and CEO in September. Although Jordan shuns the label of female...
It was back to school for the 300 registrants at the Second Annual Professional Convention Management Association's (PCMA) Summer Conference, held in Cincinnati, June 20 to 22. Registration was down slightly over last year's inaugural conference...
While you're here, check out another event-related site:<> * Billing itself as the "first World Wide Web business community for the events industry,"Event Source (http://event source.com) was launched in April on the World Wide Web by...
Notable Meetings Sign of the times: The American Academy of Otolaryngology-p;Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) will feature 25 practice management courses at its 100th annual meeting, to be held from September 29 to October 2 at the Washington (DC)...
Medical meeting planners are clamoring for information about technology-trying to keep up with the latest in advances on videoconferencing and other services that enhance the education of healthcare professionals (see cover story, page 14)-as well...
The growth of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) as an international organization was a recurring theme of the fourth annual Professional Education Conference (PEC) in Lyon, France in May. MPI has achieved truly global status, with...
She calls herself "the pig princess." She reads pig magazines, wears pig pins, displays a Miss Piggy doll in her office, and has a pig-shaped doorstop. "I feel very attached to these animals," says Arlene Davie, executive vice president, Travel...
