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Managing Scientific & Medical Societies Since 1992

Symposium Management

We specialize in planning scientific symposia related to DNA sequencing, chromatography, genomics, analytical chemistry and pharmaceutical development as well as medical conferences related to radiology, molecular imaging, neurology, cardiovascular imaging and nuclear medicine.

Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging in Cologne, Germany, 7-10 September, 2005.

If you have been designated as the Program Chair of an upcoming Symposium, Conference or Workshop, all you need do is contact Joan Oefner, and the whole process from venue selection and promotion to organizing committee meetings, abstract submission, final program, coffee breaks, networking social events, online registration, budgeting and onsite details can be handled professionally at an affordable fee.

Our philosophy is to work in synergy with the Program Chair and Organizing Committee to help carry out their ideas and vision.



Continuity & Institutional Memory

The first five Presidents of the Society for Molecular Imaging whom we were privileged to have worked for.

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.


 

Owner, Joan Oefner, at the Society for Molecular Imaging Meeting in St. Louis in 2004.

250 year toast to Arthur Guinness

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)

Website Design Examples

www.sfneurological.org

www.spartangroup.org

www.laneuro.org

www.down-syndrom-regensburg.org

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