Medical & Pharma Meetings

A veteran medical-event producer offers ideas for grabbing attendees’ attention at the outset of a session, and then holding their attention throughout.

Beau Ballin has taken his SMM and experience-building expertise from CWT Meetings & Events to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Here’s what he’s tasked with and what he sees happening across the medical-meetings field.

Product updates from Array, Interprefy, and Wordly give medical-event planners more options.

How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events is the result of a collaboration between healthcare-meetings guru Pat Schaumann and event-management firm Meetings & Incentives Worldwide.

Recent decisions by practitioner associations to move their annual meetings to different states highlight how host-destination controversies can complicate business-event planning.

Alexandra Zapple of the American Society of Nephrology has mastered hybrid event formats, health protocols, and the exhibit-hall atmosphere. But larger social issues are affecting her planning as well.

The Hilton Union Square and the Parc 55 are now in ownership limbo, while at least 30 other hotels in the popular medical-event city have debt-service deadlines to meet over the next year.