The American Academy of Family Physicians last year started developing its own crisis plan to deal with a possible avian flu pandemic. AAFP felt it was important to have a pandemic crisis plan so that the association would have the resources to...
While in County Kerry, Ireland, several years ago, veteran meeting planner Paula Kelly, a vice president with the former AmerUs Annuity Group (now part of Aviva), got a directive from a company executive: “Get me some tee times at Ballybunion Golf...
The Department of Homeland Security plans to relax the passport requirements for children who are citizens of the United States and Canada traveling into the U.S. via land and sea...
Think it's possible to save thousands of dollars on your food and beverage budget? Think higher. In a session at Meeting Professionals International's recent Professional Education Conference in New Orleans, presenter Janet R. Pickover, CMP, told...
With the Association's 2007 annual meeting in Toronto this May, Kathy Cannon, associate executive director at the American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research, The Woodlands, Texas, was more than a little anxious about attendance...