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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

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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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A Leader in Medical-Meetings Education Turns Her Sights on Newcomers

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Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC President, Schaumann Consulting Group, LLC For launching a certification for newcomers in the medical-meetings field Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, has had an outsized influence on the medical-meetings industry over the years, and she’s at it again.

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2019 15 Over 50: Lynne K. Tiras, CMP

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How I got here: When our youngest went off to college, I was approached by the Baylor College of Medicine to manage medical meetings for various departments. After seven years, I left to start my own independent meeting planning company in 1986, which was rare at that time.

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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

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How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t. And neither is the supply of talented staff.

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Maritz Expands Solutions for Med/Pharma Meetings

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As director of professional development for the Meeting Professionals International health care sector, she founded its Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which helps med/pharma meetings planners understand basic compliance principles.

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

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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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Time to Rebrand Third-Party Planners

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Hunt took it a step further saying she doesn’t even like to be called a planner, that what she and Mack do goes well beyond planning. Between medical meetings and mega-computer trade shows, their collective experiences help a variety of businesses stage critical, and fun, events around the globe.