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The Power of Advocacy: How Two Medical Conferences Empowered a Family with Disabilities

PCMA Convene

In 2012, Jim was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the surgery left him similarly in need of reminders. One attendee urged her to start a Change.org petition to draw Apple’s attention to the problem, and offered help on the social-media front from her agency Trinity Services, a support organization for people with disabilities.

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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. Conventional Wisdom.

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