PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

The challenges that planners face in the time of COVID-19 were explored in a panel discussion, facilitated by GDP President and CEO Catherine Chaulet, and including Becky Cavanaugh, associate director, medical meetings and events, Syneos Health; Elliott Grant, director, BLACK BOOK; Kim Hester, vice president, JNR Incorporated; and Margaret Stafford, (..)

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PCMA Convene

MAY 11, 2017

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.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

She has authored several health care compliance policy books, including Breaking the Code to Healthcare Compliance. I’ve trained more than a thousand medical meetings professionals through the HMCC program, and heard first-hand about the challenges these companies face,” Schaumann says.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

After experiencing mindfulness coach Lee Papa’s meditation sessions while attending one of Experient’s e4 conferences, Burnett knew she wanted to book Papa for the AAPA’s annual conference. Yoga and 5K fun runs have become staples at many other medical meetings, too, including the ONS Congress and the AOA’s OMED.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2023

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, made a name for herself 10 years ago with the launch of the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program. Now she has a new program and a book to show beginners the ropes. She also has an accompanying text, How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events, that’s scheduled to be published in July.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meetings support many other parts of the economy through business trade shows, scientific conferences and medical meetings. We need to get back to the excitement and joy of booking a trip. We have also lost the mental health that comes with anticipation of travel. What needs to happen to preserve the industry?

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This medical communications agency creates bespoke online registration websites, manages travel and logistics, assists with content development, oversees speaker management, and provides full onsite support and delivery. They also tailor their approach to complement internal departments and teams as needed.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

“The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said. While we often try to divide them between for-profits and nonprofits, the reality is that the goals of all medical meeting planners are quite similar.”. ‘A A Combination of Human and Machine Learning’. Quant relies on machine learning to do the heavy lifting.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

By the Book. To better engage its members at its Annual Meeting, the Society of General Internal Medicine went old school in its approach. AGU brought innovative content and student scientists to its 2019 Fall Meeting through a NASA-sponsored competition to create data visualizations — using NASA data. The Right Balance.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

The Society of General Internal Medicine’s book club chose The Glass Cage (from left) in 2018, Range in 2020, and Between the World and me in 2019. This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. Why a book club? 3,000 attendees. “Fun”

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Includes registration/ticketing, virtual space housing content and livestreaming, video/chat attendee networking, appointment booking / matchmaking. Perfect for: Scientific and medical meetings and conferences of all sizes. Highly versatile event app software with pricing based on your needs. EventPilot.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

So AIA rented Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom and booked R&B/pop vocal group En Vogue for the main stage. “We More Innovative Meetings. Why More Medical Meetings Are Looking at Airport Hotels. This year’s entertainment priority was finding a way to host one gigantic party everyone could attend.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. I was both electrified and a little stunned by what I learned — who knew that nearly half of the hospitals in Rwanda receive medical supplies by drone?

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

I was able to see all of my hard work over nine months result in my largest booking. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. I received the email that we had won the bid and the conference would be coming to Grand Rapids in 2017! It’s an indescribable feeling of accomplishment.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

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. Tower of Babble’.

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