“It is ironic, but the pharmaceutical industry, despite having created many successful and life-saving therapies, has one of the worst public images,” said David F. Townson, PhD, PMP, vice president, program management, MannKind Corp., Valencia...
Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking site, for participants in the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum. The...
Drawing nearly 200 attendees, the first annual West Coast Medical Device and Bio/Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum—which took place December 10 to11 at the Hilton Orange County in Costa Mesa, Calif.—brought meeting planners and suppliers...
When Barbara Dunlavey became executive director at the Biomedical Engineering Society two years ago, there was no meeting budget or system to track expenses, let alone a strategy to reduce costs. That would soon change. Dunlavey developed a...
More time, more money, more frustration. As CME providers know all too well, pharmaceutical companies' new grant application processes, created in response to the regulatory environment, have made it much more difficult to get commercial support...
The buzz at the Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held in October, was all about the FAQ document the Accreditation Council for CME released less than a week before the meeting. The guidelines in...
To strengthen CME's credibility in the face of increasing government, public, and media scrutiny, CME professionals must demonstrate their competence in developing effective and independent programs. That was one of the strong themes that emerged...
It's Been a Frightening Year for CME professionals, with increasing government scrutiny, including the Senate Finance Committee's report on CME. The good news is that the feds are unlikely to pass legislation involving CME in the near future, said...
In a development that surprised many CME professionals, the Accreditation Council for CME issued an FAQ document prohibiting providers from asking commercial supporters to suggest topics or speakers for educational activities, or to review content...