In Memoriam: Chris Pentz

Chris Pentz, CMP, president, Pentz Group Communications, Levittown, Pa., died on May 21 after a battle with cancer. Having worked as a meeting planner for pharmaceutical companies, including SmithKline, Centocor, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, she created her own meeting planning company in the 1990s. She was a speaker at Medical Meetings' first Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum in 2005 and was scheduled to present at the March 2006 conference before she became too ill to take part.