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<title>Pharma Planners</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/</link>
<description>The latest pharmaceutical meeting planning news, brought to you by Medical Meetings magazine.</description>
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<title>Pharma Meetings: Next Stop, Baltimore</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/meetings_next_stop_baltimore</link>
<description>Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking site, for participants in the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum March 17-19 at the Baltimore Convention Center. The tool allows attendees to share content, make connections, and network well before the event takes place. In&lt;p&gt;
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Pharma's Conscience</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/pharmas_conscience_012808</link>
<description>It is ironic, but the pharmaceutical industry, despite having created many successful and life-saving therapies, has one of the worst public images, said David F. Townson, PhD, PMP, vice president, program management, MannKind Corp., Valencia, Calif. He was speaking at the first annual West Coast Medical Device and Bio/Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, co-organized by Medical Meetings magazine&lt;p&gt;
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Pharma Planners Connect</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/pharma_planners_connect_012808</link>
<description>Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking site, for participants in the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum. The tool allows attendees to share content, make connections, and network well before the event takes place. In another conference first, the Professional Convention&lt;p&gt;
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/true_believer_2</link>
<description>Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department of Princeton, N.J.-based Squibb Corp. The company had just gone through a merger with Bristol-Myers Co. and things were a bit chaotic. I was in my office and a colleague came in and said to me, I think you need to know something, recalls Ridzon.&lt;p&gt;
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>MM Pharma Forum to Release Research ReResults</title>
<link>http://meetingsnet.com/cmepharma/pharma/mm_forum_reresults</link>
<description>Medical Meetings has partnered with Cutting Edge Information and the Center for Business Intelligence to conduct a study of pharmaceutical meetings industry trends. The results, including information on meeting spend, best practices, and meeting consolidation, will be released at the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum. Co-organized by Medical Meetings magazine and the Center for Business&lt;p&gt;
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<category>pharma</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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