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.

Two veteran physicians educated planners at Pharma Forum about HCPs’ likes and dislikes at industry-hosted meetings and professional-society conferences.

A new Hilton property will bring significant conference space to the expanding medical campus, along with 252 guest rooms.

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, made a name for herself 10 years ago with the launch of the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program. Now she has a new program and a book to show beginners the ropes.

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.

A finalist for PCMA’s Event Strategist of the Year award, Lisa McGlashen keeps one eye on revenue streams and the other on creating great experiences for attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors.

At the recent Pharma Forum conference, a panel of life-science event pros detailed their challenges with lead times, RFP responses, and space requirements.