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How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

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Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. rst draft of a “Patients Included” charter, now used to set standards for patient involvement at meetings.

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How the ESC Supported Barcelona After the Attacks

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From Istanbul to Paris to Orlando and beyond, destinations around the world have been forced to deal with the new normal of heightened risk. Despite the increase in unthinkable acts, Dorian noted that the meetings and events industry has come together to chart the course forward. Martha Gulati (@DrMarthaGulati) August 18, 2017.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

“In almost comical fashion, the website’s homepage proudly displays an image of Paris’ Louvre Museum as an attraction of Manchester — an obvious sign that all is not as it should be.”. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

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Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

Denise Silber, who was born in the United States but has spent most of her career working in Europe, is the founder and president of Paris-based Basil Strategies, a digital health-communications consultancy. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings.