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.
The North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians had the prettiest cover--textured paper and a woodcut feel to the illustration; the International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics had the most session information; the Symposium...
James H. Sweeney is a big-picture guy. When you have a title like American Dental Association Group Associate Executive Director, Business, Technical, and Meetings Services, you have to be...
Is your request for 10 fruit baskets a deal-breaker, or just something you'd like to have? Planners need to be up front with hoteliers and prioritize those wish-lists, says Nancy Schelhorn Bennett, CMP, director of conference and meeting services...
Internet promotion is no longer a "maybe someday" proposition. In the recently released 1999 Meetings Outlook Survey co-sponsored by Meeting Professionals International and the American Society of Association Executives, more than one in five of...
While the summer months tend to be Canada's busiest for tourism traffic, cities like Vancouver have opened up in the last 12 months as the Asian flu has greatly reduced traffic from the East. The summer months are popular for its nice weather but...
Health Care Susan M. Cox, MD, has been appointed assistant dean for professional education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She also is medical director of the high-risk pregnancy unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital...
* The 259-room Inn at Penn, the hospitality component of the University of Pennsylvania's new mixed-use complex, Sansom Common, will open in 1999. The property will include a conference center with a ballroom, eight meeting rooms, and a 16-seat...