Pharma Planners

MM Forum Features Pharma Exec Keynote Monday, January 1, 2007 9:00 AM Michael W. Young, senior director, Global Oncology Strategy, Eisai Inc., San Diego, will present the keynote session at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum. He will provide an overview of the trends in the pharmaceutical industry and analyze how they will affect meetings. Co-organized by Medical Meetings magazine and the Center for Business Intelligence, the conference is set for

Correction Noted Monday, January 1, 2007 9:00 AM The Professional Meeting Planners Network was mistakenly omitted from the sidebar Finding Travel Directors, in the article On Site, On Call, which appeared in the December 2006 issue. Based in Durham, N.C., PMPN has provided meeting logistics services for pharmaceutical companies for 20 years. Through its network of more than 1,000 medical meetings specialists, PMPN facilitates many types of events,

On Site, On Call Friday, December 1, 2006 9:00 AM Like any good meeting planner, Loretta Lowe, CMP, can juggle many tasks at one time. But try as she might, she can't be in more than one place at a time. So when the San Francisco based independent meeting planner was called on to plan 45 pharmaceutical meetings throughout the United States, she needed to hire people to take over on site. Enter the travel director a person hired specifically to oversee