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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Louisville and More

Smart Meetings

Before Choose Chicago, Anderson was regional director of marketing for The Peninsula Hotels. has named Diamond senior meeting manager. Before joining TMG, Diamond worked as medical meetings project manager for MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. Talley Management Group (TMG), Inc., Ellen LaMaire.

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Q&A with Tori Barnes on Advocating for Bold Action

SmartMeetings

From her vantage point in Washington, D.C., Tori Emerson Barnes understood earlier than many in the North American meetings industry that the coronavirus was going to have a devastating impact on the economy. Title : Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Policy, U.S. Travel Association.

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Event’s Book Club Attracts Wider, Younger Group of Attendees

PCMA Convene

This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. May 8–11, 2019 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. 3,000 attendees.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Director of Registration Meeting Management Services Washington, D.C., Corporate Sales Manager Destination DC, Washington, D.C., Also, from the amazing food scene, unique venues, and of course the 3 M’s (museums, monuments, and memorials), Washington, D.C., I aspire to one day own my own hotel.

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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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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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.

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