What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
Even when contending with budgetary and logistical challenges, Vanessa Bass remains obsessed with the human elements of business events—including when she’s a co-chair for March 2024’s Pharma Forum in Tampa.
Here’s an excerpt from a new book educating planners and suppliers on the terminology, compliance and ethics issues, and other concerns when designing events for life-sciences companies.
Imposters who pretend to be officlal housing partners—or the host organization—are getting better at tricking attendees out of their money. Here's how some medical associations minimize the threats from these "pirates."
At least eight kinds of meetings are involved in the drug-development process. Here’s a primer to help life-science company planners better understand the journey.
A medical-event producer gave its poster presenters a research-based approach to creating posters that are easier for attendees with sensory difficulties—and other attendees—to understand. Here is that approach.
A combined Hyatt Place/Hyatt House property on the south side of the Houston medical complex is closest to M.D. Anderson Hospital, Cizik School of Nursing, and Baylor Medicine McNair Campus.
A veteran medical-event producer offers ideas for grabbing attendees’ attention at the outset of a session, and then holding their attention throughout.
Beau Ballin has taken his SMM and experience-building expertise from CWT Meetings & Events to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Here’s what he’s tasked with and what he sees happening across the medical-meetings field.