Scientific & Medical Society Management & Conference Services

Rhema Association Management was founded in 1992 to provide professional, cost effective management to scientific and medical societies.

Specialties

• start-up organizations & inaugural meetings
• turning around troubled, but promising organizations that have struggled due to inappropriate infrastructure (too little or too much)
• taking an organization to the next level

Opening Plenary Session of the Society for Molecular Imaging meeting in Cologne, Germany

Why medical & scientific societies?

By focusing on the specific needs of medical & scientific societies we sharpen our expertise and share ideas for the benefit of all of our clients.

Officers from one group tend to know the leadership of other groups that we manage or have managed, either as colleagues or through each other's scientific reputations.

When attendees leave a Scientific Symposium or the Annual Conference and just can't stop thinking about it for days, weeks and months afterwards, those ideas develop into successful publications and scientific advancements. That is our goal in supporting scientific and medical not-for-profit organizations.

References

From a Past-President of the Society for Molecular Imaging
"The San Francisco SMI meeting seems like only yesterday, but through the years since that meeting you have helped all of us build a solid foundation for the SMI that will last well into the future. It has been your energy, insights, experience and tremendous attitude that have turned this society into a well-tuned, professionally run organization, and built its annual meeting into an internationally renowned platform for reporting on the most important advances in molecular imaging. You should be very proud knowing that you have contributed greatly to this emerging field, and we are all indebted to you for helping us build a vibrant organization that serves the imaging community so well. You have helped convert a vision into a reality, and even though you have left the SMI in the very capable hands of Charles and his team, we will miss you very much."

From a Past-President of the SF Neurological Society
“Joan has served the SF Neurological Society as executive director and then as communications director for many years (1995 is a guess as she started before I came on the board). She helped draft bylaws, arranged for the organization to become a 501c6 and took the society through the process of being certified to provide CME (educational credit). She continues to manage our website and design and send mailings and email blasts for meetings She is extremely knowledgeable, efficient, dedicated, trustworthy, reliable, creative and a really nice person. She has always had our backs and I hope that she will continue to do so, whatever her principle project is.”

*We can put you in contact with representatives from each of our current and past clients for more detailed references.

   

Non-Profit Website Design Examples

www.sfneurological.org

www.spartangroup.org

www.down-syndrom-regensburg.org

www.laneuro.org

Assisting international scientific, biotech, pharmaceutical and medical societies.

 

Owner, Joan Oefner, at the  San Francisco Neurological Society Annual Meeting in Sonoma, CA in 2004.

Toast to 250 Years of Guinness which happened to fall at the conclusion of a successful symposium in Dublin

Meeting Photo Albums

SMI 2005 Cologne, Germany (1,072 people)

SMI 2006 Hawaii (1,250 people)

IICS 2009 Dublin, Ireland (170 people) 

SFNS 2010 Sonoma, CA (135 people)

SFNS 2011 Monterey, CA (135 people)