The New Year arrived with exciting news: In 2019, we witnessed the biggest single-year reduction in cancer rates since record-keeping began 90 years ago. As The Associated Press reported, “the drop in deaths seems to have been accelerated by recent lung cancer treatment advances.” Our researchers and clinicians led the way, of course. Let’s also acknowledge…
Room is running out for the 2020 NACCDO-PAMN Annual Conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake, in Ontario, Canada. We want you to be there as we take over the tourist destination from May 18-21. Learn more, and register. And don’t miss this fun video by our fantastic conference host, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Conference topics will include:…
Our thanks go out to all attendees of NACCDO-PAMN 2019 in Oklahoma City, hosted by Stephenson Cancer Center at The University of Oklahoma. We’ve received good feedback about the quality of the content and conference overall – momentum we’ll continue as we set our sights on 2020. Next year’s conference will be at Niagara-on-the-Lake, in…
I can understand if you thought PAMN’s annual conference was the only opportunity for members to network and learn. It is the highlight our calendar. Unfortunately, that also would mean you’ve been missing out on our great programming year round. If you haven’t noticed, here are some ways PAMN aims to help you become a…
Learning how your marketing and communications team compares nationally to your peers (and competitors) is more than just an interesting exercise. The answers could provide the rationale you need to get more resources. The data is available to all healthcare marketing and communications leaders who participate in a benchmarking study led by Cleveland Clinic and…
Congratulations to PAMN member Kira Bayley, a special events associate at City of Hope National Medical Center, for winning an Amazon Echo smart speaker. Kira won a random drawing of PAMN members who had activated their myPAMN profiles by Jan. 1. If you haven’t activated yours yet, here’s how. It’s the best way to access insights…
NYU Langone Health is a world-class, patient-centered, integrated academic medical center, known for its excellence in clinical care, research, and education. It comprises more than 200 locations throughout the New York area, including five inpatient locations, a children’s hospital, three emergency rooms and a level 1 trauma center. Also part of NYU Langone Health is…
What do professional development, networking, mechanical-bull riding and a haunted hotel have in common? … Oklahoma City, site of PAMN’s next annual conference! Planning is underway for the April 8-11 event, which will include sessions for digital communicators, crisis communications managers, and healthcare marketers and strategists, to name a few of our niche audiences. Unlike…
CHICAGO – Writing from the press room of AACR’s annual meeting, I’m surrounded by reminders that what we do as cancer center communicators and marketers is a team effort. Present are colleagues from UCSF, the University of Colorado, Dana-Farber, Mass General, Mayo, the University of Michigan, Moffitt, NYU Langone, UNC, UPenn, UPMC, Roswell Park and…