Medical Meeting Planners (MMP) Certificate Program
Earn your MMP credentials onsite at Pharma Forum EMEA during this pre-conference workshop. Open to Pharma Forum EMEA attendees only and at the discounted rate.
Program Overview
Today’s medical meetings environment is more complex, regulated, and scrutinized than ever before. Shifting healthcare regulations, evolving compliance expectations, hybrid delivery models, increased cost pressures, and a new generation of planners entering the workforce have raised the bar for how medical meetings must be designed, managed, and measured.
The Medical Meeting Planners (MMP) Certificate is designed to prepare meeting and event professionals to confidently plan, execute, and manage compliant medical meetings across pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and healthcare organizations. Whether you are new to healthcare meetings or an experienced planner looking to strengthen your compliance fluency and operational expertise, this program builds the foundational knowledge and applied skills required to reduce risk and deliver effective medical meetings.
Participants who earn the MMP Certificate demonstrate a working understanding of medical meeting terminology, regulatory considerations, planning workflows, and industry best practices, enabling them to support stakeholders, vendors, and healthcare professionals with confidence.
Program Leader
Ella Darby, MMP, Head, Global Event Experience, Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.
Course Details
By completing the MMP Certificate, you will be able to:
- Define what qualifies as a medical meeting and distinguish between promotional, non-promotional, educational, and advisory formats
- Apply the end-to-end planning process for medical meetings, from strategy through execution and reporting
- Execute key planning functions including sourcing, contracting, transportation, food and beverage, speaker management, exhibits, and production
- Build, manage, and reconcile medical meeting budgets, billing structures, and performance analytics
- Plan and deliver compliant in-person, virtual, and hybrid medical meetings
- Integrate sustainability, safety, and duty-of-care considerations into medical meeting design
*Additional fee to participate in this program - It is strongly suggested registrants purchase/pre-read “How to Plan Medical Meetings and Events” in order to attend the course.
Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) Program
Earn your HMCC credentials onsite at Pharma Forum EMEA during this add-on workshop. Open to Pharma Forum EMEA attendees only and at the discounted rate.
Program Overview
Planning healthcare and pharmaceutical meetings is complex work, where any number of crucial components could slip through the cracks. Planners and suppliers equally must balance multiple aspects: event design, navigating frequent changes in global compliance and regulations, and delivering ROI to their companies, attendees and destinations.
All this begs the question: Are your healthcare meetings compliant?
Designed for medical meeting professionals and the partners they work with, MPI’s Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate offers a broad understanding of regulatory topics, laying competency groundwork upon which critical thinking skills are developed, through case studies, business simulation, discussion and active exercises. This intensive, four-hour program provides healthcare meeting compliance stakeholders with the knowledge and experience they need to successfully navigate the increasingly complex pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device regulatory environment.
Program Leader:
Marlize Eckert, Business Unit Lead – Compliance, GCO Global
Course Details
At the completion of the program, you’ll be able to:
- Utilize new healthcare compliance management skills and unique terminologies in the event planning and design process
- Oversee process reporting management across a variety of sectors, regions and countries
- Meet new reporting and submission timelines and understand transfers of values, and what that means for meetings and events
- Apply the who, what, where and how of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Open Payments), and other global compliance initiatives
- Verify your credential with a digital badge to add to your email, social media and more.
*Additional fee to participate in this program