BizBash

JUNE 3, 2025

Spotlight On Google I/O, the brands annual developer conference, took place May 20-21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif.—and Visiting Media , a sales and marketing technology company for the hospitality industry, has named Chad Kimner senior vice president of growth and operations. Submit your entries by Oct.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

attended his first medical conference more than 20 years ago, when he was a neurology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. Medicine Man Clay Johnston thinks that health care in the United States has ‘gone off the rails’ — and that fixing it means changing the medical- education model. I’ll give you an example.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We are home to America’s first hospital and its oldest and largest urban research park. The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown from Jan. Philadelphia’s legacy of innovation is 250 years in the making, especially when it comes to the life sciences.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Patient-facing health-care professionals will need to improve their ability to explain complex medical terms, diagnoses, and treatments to patients and their families, so they can do their part in improving their health. What does that mean for professional medical conferences? Submissions or curation?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? The number of medicine-focused conferences that bring in a wide range of disciplines and diverse audiences is growing. The post Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences appeared first on PCMA Convene. CES Digital Health Summit , Jan.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. In the hospitality/events industry, a weak supply chain means limited product quantities unless you order significantly in advance (and who can predict volume right now?) We all know the staffing challenges in hospitality.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When Kenes Group , a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, shifted to hosting virtual events for its medical and science groups this past April, company leaders knew they needed more insight into the minds of their health-care practitioner (HCP) attendees. A variety of learning formats and activities.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 27, 2020

Book your medical meeting at the heart of healthcare innovation and biomedical advancement. Brought to you by: In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in the heart of Phoenix. News and World Report has nationally ranked the clinic in 12 medical specialties. As the No.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The new code — which Associate Editor Casey Gale wrote about a few months ago — prohibits MedTech Europe’s member companies from directly sponsoring a health-care provider’s attendance at a medical conference or other event. based medical meetings. 1 — conflicts with the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms. For MGMA’s Medical Practices Excellence Conference, scheduled for Oct.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold. As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Especially in medicine and health care, maybe the most incremental yet desperate-to-change-the-world field of all — how would you build a conference specifically dedicated to groundbreaking, trailblazing, lifesaving innovations? 2017 Breakthrough Thinking Conference. Wellness Panel at the Breakthrough Thinking Conference.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2019

During Convening Leaders last month in Pittsburgh, I — along with about a dozen others, mostly medical meeting planners and a few industry suppliers — witnessed an open-heart surgery. The aneurysm repair was performed at Allegheny General Hospital , a short drive across the river from the David L. Michelle Russell.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Part of SPN’s model involved live events, as well as the idea for a seminal annual conference that would connect Midwest entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and each other. “[SPN] SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6. The format was a success.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Maybe it was that one conference you attended, where a speaker spoke to a part of you that you never even knew existed. I eventually found my way into the hospitality industry, which felt like home because of my undeniable love for people. I transitioned from restaurants to hotel management, focusing on meetings and events.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

At DIH, innovative thinking is applied to an array of health-care settings and deliverables, from buildings to interfaces — and possibly in the future, medical meetings. Compare this for a moment to a hospitality experience. I’m married to a physician, and she goes to traditional medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years. Like the travel — love my team. Love the organizational tasks, and the actual on-site experience. Making relationships with speakers and clients.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Chicago will be featured in the December issue of Smart Meetings magazine. Here’s an excerpt: When it comes to the hospitality and meetings industries, Chicago isn’t exactly starting from scratch. The technology sector and medical meetings are booming in Boston now, according to Moscaritolo.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

We traced MOC back through the decades — from first introduction to physician response — and found out how Paschall and other meeting professionals have successfully added it to their conference offerings. That’s where MOC programs come in — and, by extension, the meetings and conferences where those programs are offered.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. Navy and U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.” Bertelan Meskó.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The $22 billion contributed by the meetings industry to local, state and federal taxes each year is dependent on the free flow of travel. Travel Association and the CEOs of 13 hospitality companies met Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump and senior administration officials. To make that point, U.S.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 2, 2024

That said, medical meetings may be among the meetings most likely to be impacted. Among those peering into a crystal ball to attempt to pinpoint the future for medical meetings is Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC. If profits also lower as a result, so might budgets for medical meetings and congresses.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Trump prepares to take office, event organizers must consider the effects of his policies and appointments on the medical meetings industry. I’ve been getting many inquiries about the future of medical meetings under the new Trump administration. This may affect the budgets available for medical meetings and congresses.

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