AFTER 10 YEARS of attending Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME meetings at the Alliance for CME annual conference, Maureen Doyle-Scharff, director, professional services and medical education, Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Columbus...
THE CME WE WILL see in five years is not at all what we see today. Commercial supporters are becoming more selective. And we see other important changes emerging...
Behind closed doors, the attendees of the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum broke into three groups: corporate in-house pharma planners, independent meeting planners, and hoteliers and suppliers. What did they talk about? Each other. From...
TWO MEETING PLANNING groups combined shows to gain several advantages — getting better deals with venues, marketing to exhibitors more efficiently, and even attracting attendees who might not otherwise be there...
“HOW DO YOU distinguish between being politically correct and professionally competent?” asked one person I interviewed for the article about New Jersey's new mandate on cultural-competency training (see page 12). “There is more than one type of...
THE CME DOLLAR is regularly stretched to support activity planning, development, and implementation. On occasion, components of an event are compromised or eliminated because the funding is inadequate. When that's the case, do we behave as...
PLANNING THE FIRST annual anything involves a little optimism and a lot of work, as any medical meeting planner knows. Given the overwhelming response to the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 31 to April 1 at the...
“The pharmaceutical industry is a laboratory for best practices in meeting planning,” said Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Maritz Travel Co., St. Louis, as she opened the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 31 to...
IN LATE MARCH, New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed legislation requiring that physicians take “cultural-competency training” in order to obtain a license or be relicensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners. The intent of the...