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A Leader in Medical-Meetings Education Turns Her Sights on Newcomers

MeetingsNet

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC President, Schaumann Consulting Group, LLC For launching a certification for newcomers in the medical-meetings field Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, has had an outsized influence on the medical-meetings industry over the years, and she’s at it again.

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

PCMA Convene

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. All photos courtesy of Medicine X. A Paradigm Shift’.

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

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On the hunt for the top medical communications companies to help you run better life science events? Planning and running successful events in the pharma industry involves managing multiple vendors, overseeing details, and executing a plan that’s cost-efficient and produces tangible results.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

In April 2013, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed a federal lawsuit against ABMS for “restraining trade and causing a reduction of access by patients to their physicians,” according to an AAPS statement. In 2013, ATS rolled out sessions specifically related to MOC.

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Design Thinking: An Event Strategists’ Toolkit

PCMA Convene

In her role as the executive director of the Impact Travel Alliance (ITA), a nonprofit organization linking global travel professionals with world-changing ambitions, Kelley Louise oversees a network that hosts approximately 20 educational events around the world each year, including ITA’s flagship Travel + SocialGood Summit.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

The annual conference was a good solid performer, but a pretty conventional show — mostly male, mostly white, mostly older, with many exclusive events,” said Kathron Compton, AIA’s senior vice president for brand and engagement. “It As part of its relevance evaluation, AIA invited 360 Live Media to its 2013 convention. Compton said.

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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. Nichols’ pioneering writing in the field — she edited the first version of Professional Meeting Management , published in 1985 — turned her into a teacher, she said. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.)

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