Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus has welcomed the return of European medical meetings with the arrival of the 14 th European Paediatric Neurology Society Congress (EPNS) at the venue this weekend. Combined, these three conferences alone represent 54,000 delegate days.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Read More : Medical Meetings: Temperature Check Ferguson says it’s something her team has wanted to do for years, as it’s important to bring in new and emerging talent. “We Read More : Event Case Theory: MGMA’s Leaders Conference “I learn something new every year, especially from our conference program,” Ferguson says.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 25, 2019

“And if they’re writing scripts, we don’t necessarily know whether it was because of our conference or another conference or direct-to-consumer advertising.”. Orders for medical devices are no easier to trace, considering the lengthy purchasing timelines for costly equipment. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Impact on Healthcare Conferences? If these waves of change haven’t impacted your medical meeting’s business model, it’s just a matter of time. Here are four questions (and tips) for your conference committee to consider as they navigate this changing landscape: 1. Session Mix. Submissions or curation?

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

10 medical conferences due to take place at South Wales venue in 2023/2024 ICC Wales , Wales’s first dedicated convention centre, will be hosting a series of medical conferences that will support the post-pandemic recovery of the in-person medical meetings sector and highlight the venue’s pivotal role in the recovery of the UK Meetings Industry.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Quickmobile

MAY 2, 2018

As a past event planner myself, I can imagine the euphoric feeling big event planners must have experienced after planning amazing, large-scale events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, Carnival in Brazil, TED Conferences and more. Here is why I loved being an event planner, specifically planning medical meetings: A sense of doing good.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

Attendees at the 2019 annual conference of American Academy of Physician Assistants take advantage of one of the offerings: a workout class. They’re issues that people in every industry report suffering from, but for those in the medical field, they can be especially severe. It’s a problem in the medical profession.”.

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MAY 4, 2021

has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Before joining TMG, Diamond worked as medical meetings project manager for MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. Burks has also held conference service positions at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, The St. Darryl Diamond, CMP. Talley Management Group (TMG), Inc., Ellen LaMaire.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

When Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. on Sunday, Sept. All photos courtesy of Medicine X.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 15, 2019

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 26, 2021

A LinkedIn post asked healthcare professionals if they feel safe traveling to in-person conferences in the fall. Physicians need to complete a certain number of continuing medical education hours each year, and that drives a lot of conferences. But do you feel safe traveling again?

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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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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

If some conferences pure scams, why can’t their organizers be prosecuted or sued? There is a big difference between predatory and fake, he noted, and that distinction plays a major role in the conference industry’s ability to pursue legal action. based medical meeting organizer who requested anonymity. No venue known.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown from Jan. A direct beneficiary of this activity has been the medical meetings industry , helping propel hospitality and tourism to Philadelphia’s third largest industry. Click for more details.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

The aim of the code was to provide patients with insight into dealings between pharmaceutical companies and physicians, including details on when companies would foot the bill for doctors to attend medical conferences. But the Disclosure Code ultimately had no significant impact on participation at medical meetings.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

“If our conferences become more problem-focused as opposed to more traditional discipline-focused, you’ll see these diverse groups coming together. ” – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. AM-T: Clay Johnston has been dean of UT Austin’s medical school for three years.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? In November, American Express Meetings & Events published research based on interviews with 12 physicians who practice in specialties across North America and Europe. Absolutely, yes,” Paschall said.

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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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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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JULY 1, 2021

Indeed, scientific modeling by Exhibitions and Conferences Alliance and Epistemix found that in-person PMEs pose minimal risk of Covid-19 transmission to attendees: a mere.001 001 percent, to be precise. What’s to Be Done. According to U.S. “A A thriving travel industry—and the broader U.S. Travel Association.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 4, 2022

Want to let me know about a cool peer conference/unconference you’re holding, so I can add it to my public calendar? Here are a couple of examples: 1) My peer conference calendar. I maintain a calendar of peer conferences/unconferences on this site for a couple of reasons. Here’s why. And they do. ” Regardless.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

Imagine walking into a major international medical meeting and finding your afternoon session transformed into an intellectual, public-health version of a murder-mystery dinner party. million deaths a year.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained. If you’re a medical-meeting professional, this directly affects how you structure your conferences and conventions, and Johnston shares his ideas about that in this month’s cover story, “We Don’t Have a Lecture Hall.”

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

He wrote: Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP “I think this article is interesting from [the] perspective [of] what journalists want from conferences….

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

A recent story in The Washington Post — also about diet, as it turns out — focuses on the flip side of this equation: how a conference can contribute to the spread of misinformation that can have harmful effects on the population at large.

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MAY 3, 2017

Changing compliance codes in Europe regulating medical-device companies are expected to have a major effect on U.S.-based based medical conferences — and to continue to do so for years to come. Medical conferences should brace themselves for an impact,” Andrade said. Andrade says this won’t be the case for 2018.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

Courtesy EUSEM) Create More of a Buzz in the Exhibit Hall Davi Kaur “The exhibition is a sacred cow at medical meetings,” said Davi Kaur , CEO of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). Kaur said delegates at medical meetings value the opportunity to learn about new treatments and devices.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

However, before you jump on the mobile conference app bandwagon, think about what you really need. Here’s a quick rundown on 26 of the most popular and best mobile conference apps, in alphabetical order. Perfect for: Conferences that involve lots of networking and matchmaking among attendees. CrowdCompass from Cvent.

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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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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2019

Of the top 12 excuses given by conference organizers to explain why female speakers are underrepresented in — or absent altogether from — their meeting programs, the leading one is this: “We know we have no women. Adobe Stock/Good Studio). Meanwhile, another member of the 500 Women Scientists network, Katarzyna Nowak, who holds a Ph.D.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of medical and financial meeting and event planning. Didn’t See That Coming… Recently I had the opportunity to speak at the Winter Symposium for FICP , Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals. Enhanced Multimedia and Video-On-Demand.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Our smallest division, Systems Integrations (think installing conference room technology), was the only one bringing in revenue. It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. So, now what? How do we save our business?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 17, 2018

At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the world’s largest annual breast cancer conference, hundreds of patient advocates are actively involved in the event’s daily programming. ( Read More.

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