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Partner Your Way Through the Post-Pandemic Surge

SmartMeetings

How to creatively overcome post-pandemic staffing and supply shortages at medical meetings. Add to that staffing shortages, leading to fewer employees wearing multiple hats, taking on tasks they normally wouldn’t, or weren’t trained for. Good news: corporate travel and events are back! Bad news: the supply chain isn’t.

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. I love how meeting planning involves finance, protocol, HR, international affairs, logistics, and other disciplines. I love pulling a plan together and watching it be executed — coming up with an idea and seeing the completed product. . Negotiating contracts.

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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. She discovered that for many of them, the training that they received or had access to — “Now, this is my own opinion,” Nichols emphasized — was lacking. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.)

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