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 The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community. Opening the Doors to Everyone.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Be a speaker. Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. Still, some predatory conference sites might give you pause. Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

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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. I would say that this is absolutely true.

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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. HLTH is expected to launch with 2,000 attendees, 200-plus CEOs and company founders, and 300-plus speakers.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to results from a recent Kenes Group study, health-care professionals value high-quality speakers and discussions, but they also want a virtual platform that affords them flexibility, time, and opportunity to fully absorb them. Engaging content with a range of speakers and live discussions. So what did come as a surprise?

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SmartMeetings

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. This hybrid approach didn’t really satisfy anybody, including myself.

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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). We are always looking for ideas. How a Text Group Went Viral.

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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

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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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

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . 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.

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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. The Greater Phoenix area’s combination of affordability, accessibility, proximity and authority sets this destination apart for medical meetings.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The fifth annual Global Pharmaceutical Medical Meetings Summit will take place at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Jan. The boutique conference has built quite the following , drawing the most influential managers in the medical meetings market. Dominguez’s presentation on Feb.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6.

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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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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

AUGUST 30, 2016

It’s a fundamental technique of microbiology, and also the animating principle behind ASM Microbe, the brand-new annual conference that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) built from strands of two other annual conferences: its General Meeting and its Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I love a little bit of everything — the planning, the communication with vendors, speakers and sponsors, the creative aspects, the cyclical nature of the job, and my co-workers. Love working with hospitality people, and seeing a meeting go well. Making relationships with speakers and clients.

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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 grew into an executive leader in the hospitality, meeting and event industries, with nearly 20 years of experience, and founded my own company, Sister, We Hear You.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In a press conference prior to the game, she fueled even more chatter by stating that she wanted her performance to promote inclusion and equality. Planner’s takeaway: When selecting entertainment and keynote speakers for your next event, do what Lady Gaga did: make the audience a priority.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

After studying 100 or so meetings’ profit-and-loss statements in great detail, I can confirm that this expense line item varies greatly.Some organizations spend as little as 2 percent and have a very healthy conference product, while others rack up spending in the 20- to 25-percent range and are on life support.

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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. Do you think that medical meetings have a role to play in changing the design and experience of health care? Recently he gave Convene a preview.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. More resources on Suckow: MPI Recap: Engaging Every Type of Meeting Attendee. Dahlia Gazzar.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 17, 2017

At the conference, CFNU used the app to send “issue alerts,” asking the 1,200 nurses who attended the conference — whose theme was “Speak Up!” — to reach out to elected officials concerning particular legislation. It was easy to see the expertise and experience [CTCC] has in holding national and international conferences,” Silas said.

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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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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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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

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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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

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jim Clarke, senior vice president for public policy at The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE), hoped the meeting would result in a more welcoming message from the White House, State Department and Department of Commerce.

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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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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

The majority of respondents to a new pulse survey conducted by the American Society for Association Excellence (ASAE) reported negative impacts like reduced funding, decreased conference attendance, and complications surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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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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