'One of the key tenets of At the Limits has been to provide medical education to the widest possible audience, irrespective of global location or wealth. It’s a way in which we can contribute to the democratisation of healthcare. And that’s something that will become...
5 continents, 2 days, 1 global event Our biggest new event for some years is now well into development and we’re pleased to announce that Obesity at the Limits will join our roster of meetings in 2025. We’ve started early as the initiative is something...
Two subjects this month, a quick revisit to the VPAS situation and our plans for 2024. VPAS … again The new VPAS scheme was agreed at the end of November, and although the ABPI and Pharma Industry publicly support the deal it’s difficult to realistically see it as the...
As our friends at the Lancet celebrate the 200th birthday of the journal, I thought it would be a good time for us at ATL to reflect on our own activities and the vital role of medical education in advancing healthcare. Medical education stands at the forefront of...
This is always a busy time for us at At the Limits, as next year's meetings are planned and we begin to construct the programmes for multiple events across the globe. This year is no exception. Not only are we working on continuing events in cardiology, diabetes,...
A couple of months ago I downloaded the results of a survey detailing reputational insights into the global pharmaceutical industry and I’ve been meaning to highlight the results on the blog ever since.
Two interesting subjects this month: firstly the VPAS scheme and the affect it’s having on industries other than big pharma, and secondly the results of a new survey which assesses the corporate reputations of the Pharma industry as a whole. VPAS To cut a long story...
On Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of April 2023 over 250 cardiologists diabetologists and nephrologists gathered at the Royal College of Physicians in London for the annual CDNATL scientific meeting. Each year the meeting sets new standards in medical education for...
Everybody is doing it, so why shouldn't I? Half the students around the world are using ChatGPT to write their essays, and probably more than half of marketing professionals are using it to write their presentations (although in the interests of full disclosure...
As we move towards our first live events of 2023 (webcasts for our LATAM cardio-diabetes HCP colleagues, and the annual CDNATL meeting in London) we wanted to pause for a celebration. 2023 marks the 200th birthday of The Lancet medical journal, and our good friends...
The in-person At the Limits meetings take place throughout the year and across the globe. But to stay in more frequent contact with our professional medical community in 2023 we’re expanding our modes and frequency of contact. This starts on February 13th when we will...
At the end of last year, I mentioned that our Med-Ed hub, www.opendialogue.health was being launched with a full set of presentations from our 2022 events. Looking at the release of new material in 2023 we’ll average one publication per week consisting of up to 5 new...
The costs of running a conference rose dramatically in 2022. Not just the obvious costs of venue rental, but particularly the costs of travel, accommodation, and F&B. In fact, according to the Global Travel Forecast published by CWT and the Global Business Travel...
Regular readers will know that my fondness for virtual events knows no end. However, in 2023 I’ll put my aversion aside as we work closely with our good friends in LATAM to create regular webcasts for the Cardio-Renal community. We’ve been running live Cardiology,...
I’m going to be honest, I’m really good at signing up to events and not turning up. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve done it over the years. It’s because of the meetings that just ‘have’ to be scheduled on the same day, maybe a train strike, bad traffic, there’s...
It’s going to be a busy September for ATL with multiple events taking place during the month and pre-production for the meetings in October and November. Multiple Sclerosis We run two back-to-back MS meetings each year which have quickly become the leading...
I have seen the future On May the 9th 1974 Bruce Springsteen, who was then 25 years old, played at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. Springsteen wasn't a star and that night he and the E St. band opened the show for Bonnie Raitt. There was a music critic...
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” - Mark Twain, 1897. So said Mark Twain, the great American author, following rumours about his failing health and his obituary being published in UK newspapers. Twain’s comments remind me of medical event space during...