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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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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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Modest and Reasonable with a Twist

SmartMeetings

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. At the same time, he also implored planners to continue doing the basics.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. The solution?

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Where Does #EventTech Go from Here?

SmartMeetings

A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. Still, by the end of 2019, almost every event had a mobile app, and some were pushing the envelope with features like interactivity, chatbots and AI networking. Medical meetings? Scientific?

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‘Get Out’ Takes on New Meaning at CHEST Annual Meeting

PCMA Convene

A participant at the American College of Chest Physicians’ CHEST Annual Meeting 2019 runs a probe over an “alien” with magnets in its chest in order to view ultrasound images revealing a cardiac condition. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. .

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Guest View: Image Audiovisuals Pivots During COVID-19 by Dave Mueller, President and Founder

Event Industry News

Serendipitously, we spent most of 2019 rebuilding our recording and streaming platform, e-Attend. It was most prominent for medical meetings or events that had many concurrent sessions attendees would have to miss. We obviously couldn’t rely on that revenue to support our entire payroll for very long.