PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2024

At a symposium session, Cohn shared the results of a survey General Mills funded on food shaming — “defined as ‘making people feel bad about what they eat.’” The research showed that “food shaming led to lower self-esteem and eating disorders and made people more likely to avoid the cereal aisle in grocery stores.”

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Food and Beverage Medical Meetings Trade Shows Social Media 111

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

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. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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Medical Meetings Food and Beverage Education Technology 95

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average, 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. Here are four insights we’ve learned from analyzing the marketing-spend category: 1. More or better marketing can’t fix this.

Marketing 51

Marketing Meetings Food and Beverage Advertising 51

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. 1986: Food can reinforce psycho-social behavior patterns, including the feeling of being caged with no escape. A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.) Heart Attack on a Plate.

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