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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

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Addicks said that he wants to explore opportunities to make the experience more interactive, to add live music, and take cues from SXSW, whose programming brings attendees outside the convention center and into the Austin community. In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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This Is What Medical Meetings Will Look Like in the Future

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Today, Johnston thinks there are more innovative, engaging ways to deliver medical education. And not just in medical school. We also asked some medical-meeting professionals if and how they see their programs evolving to meet the needs of tomorrow’s physicians. Illustration by Selman Design. The prognosis?

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How Medical Meetings Can Help A Broken U.S. Healthcare System

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” – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. I spoke to him right as South by Southwest was wrapping up in Austin.

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What Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting

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So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained. If you’re a medical-meeting professional, this directly affects how you structure your conferences and conventions, and Johnston shares his ideas about that in this month’s cover story, “We Don’t Have a Lecture Hall.”

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Storytellers Bring Innovative Content to AGU Meeting

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An AGU grand prize winners presents his data visualization on NASA’s “hyperwall” at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Epnac Photography).

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Not-Your-Average Medical Conferences

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As health care and technology converges, how can medical meetings stay relevant? The number of medicine-focused conferences that bring in a wide range of disciplines and diverse audiences is growing. Some of the most influential — and one newcomer to watch — include: TEDMED , Nov.

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A Prescription for Disruptive Design

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who had become dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. 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? I’m married to a physician, and she goes to traditional medical meetings.