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 1,500 people celebrated the opening of the Center for Association Leadership at the Marriott Learning Complex in Washington, D.C., in November. The center was founded by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE) as...
Nightmares. Insomnia. Anxiety. Startle responses. Although it may seem that the country is moving on from last September's terrorist attacks, emotional stress symptoms such as these may not be evident for some time, and experts say health care...
Thanks to a strong education program, a big drive-in market, and special telemarketing efforts by the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau as well as the association itself, the International Association for Exposition Management topped last year...
My attendance this October at the Direct Marketing Association Conference, held at the massive McCormick Place in my quasi-hometown Chicago (I am a suburb dweller by way of full disclosure), reinforced my faith in many of the foundations of direct...
Responding to concerns expressed by the Federation of State Medical Boards about the increasing number of CME courses that teach alternative therapies, the American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kan., introduced an initiative to...
This year's physician preferences survey — the ninth annual — was still in the hands of some respondents on September 11. Rick Lowe, our market research maven at Primedia Business, our parent company, was able to separate surveys returned before...
Hotels these days are contending with not just a recessionary economy and a wary public, but also some residual hard feelings from planners who long have warned the hospitality industry to play nice — because what goes around, comes around. Here's...
When TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc.'s national account executive Janice Swirski offered Joseph Gerstein, MD, an administrator with Tufts Health Plan, a $40,000 “unrestricted educational grant” to put TAP's drug Lupron on Tufts' formulary — she...
