PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2018

While the majority of PCMA Education Conference participants were at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland on June 11, a collection of medical meeting professionals made a quick trip to explore the future of patient care at the Cleveland Clinic. Interested in learning more about new models for medical education?

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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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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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Smart Meetings

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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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Ellen LaMaire.

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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 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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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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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. The prognosis?

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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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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

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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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

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

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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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Health-care providers have high standards for the meetings they attend, according to a recent report by American Express Meetings & Events. What’s most important to physicians when they consider whether or not to attend a medical meeting? Erickson Stock/Adobe Stock). The extra stuff is almost immaterial. TAKEAWAY 2.

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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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PCMA Convene

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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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

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

The American Society of Hematology has an extensive media approach during its annual meeting that includes access to experts and facilitated media briefings. 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

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 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. For organizers of scientific meetings, the answer to that question, resoundingly, is yes. Adobe Stock/Good Studio).

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

For the planner, we’re trying to be more strategic because, especially for smaller or shorter meetings, they take up a lot of space, come at an enormous cost, and take a long amount of time to set up. Kaur said delegates at medical meetings value the opportunity to learn about new treatments and devices.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

Several scientific and medical conferences are changing to meet the demand. has been to many conferences. who conducts research in vector biology and mycology, is also a regular conference-goer. It’s beyond time that scientific conferences themselves undergo the scientific process,” they wrote, “and move forward.”.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Event Tech for Medical and Financial Meetings. 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.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Partnering with top medical communications companies is an important step toward ensuring that your next medical conference or event is a success. Key services medical communications companies offer When it comes to medical event planning, you want to ensure you’re selecting the best MedComms agency for the job.

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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. Jennifer N.

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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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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2020

In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Less Panic, More Design Strategy.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

An AGU grand prize winners presents his data visualization on NASA’s “hyperwall” at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Epnac Photography).

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. or options don’t exist—those linens or new conference tables may just not be available. Top Tips for Navigating the Healthcare Meeting Landscape. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That means their experiences with tech is changing their expectations for medical education events too. In fact, 96% of them say they would benefit from more virtual HCP events and conferences. From medical congresses and scientific meetings to product launches and internal meetings. #2) MedData Group).

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? They fall across the spectrum.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are a key part of the AAAS Annual Meeting — and all attendees are encouraged to have fun with badge ribbons. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting.

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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. Where do things stand as of now?

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