MPI Launches Medical Membership Community and Advisory Board
Meeting Professionals International is launching the MPI-MD online membership community and supporting advisory council to strengthen its suite of resources for those who plan meetings for medical/healthcare organizations. The new community is “an evolution” of the International Medical Meetings Professionals Association, which was dissolved after MPI purchased its Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program in 2014.
MPI-MD will be headed by MPI Director of Professional Development–Healthcare Sector Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, who formerly led IMMPA and created the HMCC program. More than 90 percent of those who are currently in the online community, which was formed in February, are planners, according to an MPI spokesperson. The organization also has added medical-meetings–related strategic meetings management and industry trends topics to its 2016 World Education Congress in Atlantic City in June.
The MPI-MD advisory council was formed to provide guidance on curriculum design and answer questions on the MPI-MD forum within the MyMPI online community. The council, which serves a two-year term ending December 2018, currently includes 21 corporate and third-party planners, suppliers, and consultants. The board will meet for the first time at WEC.
Though the board does lean heavily toward those who plan meetings for pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies in its first incarnation, an MPI spokesperson says that the board and the online community are designed to be inclusive of all types of medical meetings professionals and their supplier partners. “Our 800+ medical professional member base includes association planners and other non-life-sciences medical planners (e.g., animal health, compliance attorneys, restaurants, convention bureaus, and those whose primary role may not be that of a medical meeting planner). Our intention is to continue to focus on the establishment of the community and continually add thought leaders from associations, legal compliance, compliance directors, etc.”
Reported by: MeetingsNet.com
MPI-MD will be headed by MPI Director of Professional Development–Healthcare Sector Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, who formerly led IMMPA and created the HMCC program. More than 90 percent of those who are currently in the online community, which was formed in February, are planners, according to an MPI spokesperson. The organization also has added medical-meetings–related strategic meetings management and industry trends topics to its 2016 World Education Congress in Atlantic City in June.
The MPI-MD advisory council was formed to provide guidance on curriculum design and answer questions on the MPI-MD forum within the MyMPI online community. The council, which serves a two-year term ending December 2018, currently includes 21 corporate and third-party planners, suppliers, and consultants. The board will meet for the first time at WEC.
Though the board does lean heavily toward those who plan meetings for pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies in its first incarnation, an MPI spokesperson says that the board and the online community are designed to be inclusive of all types of medical meetings professionals and their supplier partners. “Our 800+ medical professional member base includes association planners and other non-life-sciences medical planners (e.g., animal health, compliance attorneys, restaurants, convention bureaus, and those whose primary role may not be that of a medical meeting planner). Our intention is to continue to focus on the establishment of the community and continually add thought leaders from associations, legal compliance, compliance directors, etc.”
Reported by: MeetingsNet.com
