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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

ABIM issued a statement in February 2015 that began: “ABIM clearly got it wrong.” In late 2015, ABIM announced a significant change to its MOC process. HRS uses the OASIS platform from Coe-Truman Technologies to manage its speaker invitations, abstract submissions, and CME offerings. AAPS’s lawsuit is still pending.

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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

Life Sciences and Health Care — The 650-acre Lake Nona Medical City is making a name for itself as the home of innovation within the biotechnology and life-sciences industries, with a collection of state-of-the-art health-care, research, and medical-training facilities. UCF Medical Facility at Lake Nona. 1 in the U.S.

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

SmartMeetings

As director of professional development for the Meeting Professionals International health care sector, she founded its Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which helps med/pharma meetings planners understand basic compliance principles.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

“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. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The ambassador to Germany.

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A Prescription for Disruptive Design

PCMA Convene

The pitch: Would Chang help establish an institute that was a unique collaboration between the medical school and UT Austin’s College of Fine Arts? So in 2015, he became the executive director of UT Austin’s new Design Institute for Health (DIH), which he calls a “first-of-its-kind institution.”. Recently he gave Convene a preview.

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4 Medical Conferences That Put Innovation First

PCMA Convene

WHO ATTENDS UNMC invites nearly 300 people to the conference — leaders from across its academic medical community and the University of Nebraska, plus from other health-care institutions in the area, the nonprofit and business communities, the state legislature, and the governor’s office. About 200 attended this year. Cali , M.D.,

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Be a speaker. China, Germany, India, and Japan, told Convene that members’ names and photos are often displayed online as speakers or members of organizing committees without their knowledge to give a fake conference a sense of legitimacy. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Cover Illustration by Ollanski).