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How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. Though their numbers are small, she said, there are sessions where patient speakers “really set the tone.”.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Director of Registration Meeting Management Services Washington, D.C., Whether they are speakers, vendors, partners, or staff, we all have the common goal of inspiring attendees to take away ideas and connections that enable them to become more engaged, be more productive, and grow professionally. And after that?

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Fewer International Doctors are Attending U.S. Medical Meetings. Here’s Why.

PCMA Convene

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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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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. A Plan for Harassment.

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