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.
Now in its 11th year, the Pharma Forum has become the place where life sciences meeting managers discuss topics that at any other planner conference would be, as one past participant put it, the “elephants in the room.” This year marks...
The Discovery portal, which offers search and automated analysis of life sciences conference abstracts and posters, may soon get a big boost from a partnership between its owner, Northern Light, and Xstracta, a company that helps associations man...
A panel at the Fall CMEpalooza said continuing healthcare professional education that brings together nurses, physicians, pharmacists—and even patients—is an idea gaining momentum
This year, almost 15,000 veterinary professionals swarmed the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for one of the nation’s oldest vet conferences. But that’s just the start of WVC’s efforts to reach—and teach&mdash...
Meetings industry professionals from three North American countries are dedicating April 16, 2015, as a day to showcase the value of meetings, conferences, conventions, incentive travel, tradeshows, and exhibitions. Meetings professionals in Cana...
The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals will be ringing in some significant changes along with the new year. Taking its lead from the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions—which in recent years expande...
Studies have repeatedly shown that physicians who are educated about the latest medical advances make more informed treatment decisions, resulting in improved patient outcomes. For example, physicians who attended an industry-supported educationa...
Judy JohnsonJudy Johnson, CMP, president, CEO, and co-owner of Plano, Texas–based Rx Worldwide Meetings Inc. since 2000, has sold her medical meeting planning company to Sally and Mike Roberts, both of whom come from the pharmaceutical industry...
A recently launched search-based Web site from startup eMedEvents wants to make it as easy for docs and other healthcare professionals to find the meetings—and the continuing medical education credits they need—as Orbitz or Travelocity have made ...
Ruth Levine, founder of SpeakInc. Speakers bureau, released her list of the most popular female speakers for 2014 in July 2013. That prompted us to get in touch and ask her more about gender and the corporate speaker circuit.
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