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.
Medical Meetings recently caught up with Murry Kopelow, chief executive of the Accreditation Council for CME, to learn what was behind the decision to hire its first-ever director of communications—Tamar Hosansky, who left her post as editor of...
A U.S. Senate vote has moved the Travel Promotion Act one step closer to becoming law. The act, designed to attract more international visitors to the U.S., provides for the creation of a nonprofit, public-private partnership charged with...
The Business Travel Coalition, a group that represents about 300 corporate travel departments, has joined forces with nonprofit advocacy group FlyersRights.org to support passenger-rights legislation allowing airline passengers on domestic flights...
I'm off at a disgustingly early hour tomorrow to go to Chicago for the NIQIE conference. I was looking over the attendee list today and saw a few familiar names, so hopefully even having been out of the CME world for a few years, I won't feel...
A new discount fare product for meetings has been rolled out by the Star Alliance, a network of 24 airlines around the globe, including United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and Singapore Airlines...
Yup, that's billion with a "b." Biggest settlement ever for improper marketing practices. Here's the story in the WSJ, though it's everywhere today: Pfizer to Plead Guilty To Improper Marketing. Among the charges the settlement covers: ...
From Policy and Medicine: University of Wisconsin CME: Dean Directs Sunshine on Journal Sentinel Attacks. It sounds like the university's CME activities were called into question in recent editorials and articles in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal...
James Montague, president of the Professional Meeting Planner’s Network in Durham, N.C., always said that the plan was to establish a not-for-profit meeting planning organization to support the Medical Meeting Manager Certificate program PMPN...
