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. TAKEAWAY 6.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. This time on the podcast we meet Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. And these interactive approaches are much more labor intensive.

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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? Individuals or teams?  

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2022

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

Will our submission process yield the highest quality sessions or will we need to invite speakers who we know can address our learning priorities? Fill any content holes with curated/invited presenters. High-quality learning is worthy of investing time and money. Submissions or curation? Individuals or teams?

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 11, 2022

Private communication with speakers and exhibitors can be enabled as well, and many platforms offered the built-in ability to (either randomly or by criteria defined by the organizers) put attendees into small group discussions or breakouts. This hybrid approach didn’t really satisfy anybody, including myself.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. Present your abstract. Tens of thousands of terrible quality and sometimes fraudulent conferences are today being promoted around the world, which presents an industrial-scale challenge to bonafide associations and their quality education programs,” Gopinath told Convene. Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This medical communications agency creates bespoke online registration websites, manages travel and logistics, assists with content development, oversees speaker management, and provides full onsite support and delivery. They also tailor their approach to complement internal departments and teams as needed.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, ‘We’re going to market toward medical meetings.’ Let’s say you have a guest ticket, VIP ticket, presenter/speaker ticket, and sponsor ticket. “We’re seeing people actually admitting their niches,” says Brandt. Now people are coming out loud and proud.”. You can apply logic to the types of tickets available.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 29, 2021

I’m watching it closely with other medical meetings. The ASH Whiteboard Wall brought ideas shared by participants to visual life at the virtual annual meeting. For medical meetings, we have an embargo in play for many sessions. We had speakers prerecord their scientific presentation for that.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? For nine years, CES has presented a digital health conference track and exhibitions, showcasing innovations including virtual surgical training, biometric sensing, VR, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies.

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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. Dominguez’s presentation on Feb.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

An assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a contributor to journals like Applied Soil Ecology and the Journal of Chemical Ecology , Ngumbi needs to attend scientific events to learn about the latest developments in entomology and plant pathology and to present her own work. Brian Lovett, Ph.D.,

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 21, 2019

One of Brandt’s realizations was that he could control a presentation from anywhere in the world. And on this topic, Will says that “one of the interesting things is that tablets really are great for presentations. I remember the first time I used the Keynote presenter app. Keynote Presenter App.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

Everything Olean was trying to do with ASM Microbe could be summed up in the program’s opening keynote speaker: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing health care and eliminating poverty around the world.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program is dominated by panel discussions in a variety of formats — from straightforward group presentations on topics such as “The State of Health-Care Innovation” and “Breaking the Code: Will Next-Generation Sequencing Bring Genomics to the Mainstream?,” to more interactive sessions that include roundtables and small-group work. “The

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

Instead they were in the level of involvement by patients, who told their personal stories on stage and around the table during meals and who took part in brainstorming health-care solutions and in presenting new technologies, she wrote in a blog post after the event. A patient advocate presenting at Medicine X. on Friday, Sept.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. As the idea of adapting in-person meetings to virtual was starting to swiftly take over the industry, we already had the solution in place with e-Attend.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Includes intuitive app builder, content like speaker profiles and personal agendas + sponsor/exhibitor tools.

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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.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

Through a partnership formalized in late 2019 with Haymarket Medical Education, the mission was to sharpen member-data analysis and then leverage opportunities for additional content creation, speaker and presenter acquisition, and learner recruitment.

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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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