NESHCo Conferences

Conference Schedule

Monday 5/16 11 am Pre conference golf outing & spa sessions
 
Monday 5/16 3-4:30 pm Special Add On Senior Seminar: What Senior Healthcare Practitioners Will Be Confronting in the Next Three Years, Stacey Smith & Gail Winslow-Pine, Jackson Jackson & Wagner
 
Monday 5/16 4-6 pm Registration
 
Monday 5/16 6-10 pm Opening Reception & Boat Cruise with Clambake
 
Tuesday 5/17 7:30 am Breakfast
     
Tuesday 5/17 8:15 am Opening Remarks
 
Tuesday 5/17 8:30 am Keynote Session: When to Say "That's Not Right" A Guide to Marketing Ethics in Hospital Advertising, Larry Margolis, SPM
 
Tuesday 5/17 10 am Coffee Break with Exhibitors
 
Tuesday 5/17 10:30 am Panel Discussion on Physician Relations in the Marketing Mix
 
Tuesday 5/17 12-1 pm Lunch with Exhibitors
 
Tuesday 5/17 1:15 pm Concurrent Breakout Sessions:
1. How to reach patients, consumers and doctors in the future, Paul Griffiths, MedTouch
2. New Era in Healthcare Stresses Need for Integrated Communications, Brad Dodge, Dodge Communications
 
Tuesday 5/17 2:30 pm Break with Exhibitors
 
Tuesday 5/17 3 pm Concurrent Breakout Workshops:
1. Grassroots Marketing: Walk out of the weeds of slashed budgets and back onto the playing field, Deborah Chiaravalloti, Anna Jaques Hospital
2. Beyond Smiling Patients: How to create and sell in breakthrough healthcare advertising, Alex Murray, Cow in Trees
 
Tuesday 5/17 4:15 pm Break
 
Tuesday 5/17 6-7 pm Lamplighter Reception Sponsored
 
Tuesday 5/17 7-9 pm Lamplighter & Evans Houghton Awards Gala Sponsored by Market Street Research
 
Tuesday 5/17 9:30-11 pm MedTouch Hospitality Event & Dessert Bar
 
Wednesday 5/18 6 am Morning Constitutional Guided Walk
 
Wednesday 5/18 7:30 am Breakfast 
 
Wednesday 5/18 8 am Workshop: From Paper to Pixels: Creating a Smart, All Purpose Interactive Annual Report Online, Susan Burton & Patricia Gagnon, Baystate Health
 
Wednesday 5/18 9 am

Concurrent Breakout Sessions:
1. BEYOND BRANDING:  Re-energizing pride by connecting the recruitment and hospital brand, Noreen Biehl and Erin Flanigan, Wentworth Douglass Hospital & Sean Tracey, Sean Tracey Associates
2. Getting Buy In For Your Social Media Program, Stephen Moegling, Franklin Street Marketing

 
Wednesday 5/18 10:15 am Checkout and Coffee Break with Exhibitors
 
Wednesday 5/18 11 am Closing Session: Beyond Traditional Consumer Marketing: Successful Marketing in a Healthcare Reform Era, Deborah Gordon, Network Health
 
Wednesday 5/18 12:30 pm Adjourn and enjoy a box lunch for the ride home!

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Wednesday, May 16

2 pm-4 pm............................ Afternoon Sightseeing Event

5 pm-11 pm......................... "The Green Monster" Fenway Park Tour & Dinner Event

 

Thursday, May 17

7:30 am................................ Breakfast

8:15 am................................ Opening Remarks

8:30-10 am.......................... Keynote: Revolutionary Change is Here: Knowing Your Strategic Value When
                                           Partners and Players Change,
Scott Cullen, MD, Kaufman Hall

10-10:30 am........................ Break with Exhibitors

10:30-11:30 am.................. Musical Chairs in Healthcare:  Communicating About Mergers, Affiliations, and                 
                                           Acquisitions,
Michal Regunberg, Solomon McCown & Co

11:30-12 pm........................ Q&A with Dr. Cullen & Michal Regunberg

12-1 pm................................ Lunch with Exhibitors

1:15-2:30 pm....................... Breakout Sessions

                                           1. Winning Over the Emerging Male Consumer

                                           Stephen Moegling, Franklin Street Marketing

                                           2. OMG, LOL - You’ve Got 5 Seconds to Convince Gen Z, Now What?                             
                                           Heidi Wurpel, Crescendo Consulting 

2:30-3 pm............................. Break with Exhibitors

3-4:15 pm............................. Breakout Sessions

                                           1. Engaging Females Through Blogs and Social Media Channels
                                           Brooke Tyson Hynes, Tufts Medical Center, and Dan Dunlop, Jennings                    
                                           2.
Baby Boomers and Beyond: Communicating Their Way
                                           Erika Copes, Hartford Healthcare & Helayne Lightstone, Hospital of Central Connecticut
6 pm...................................... Reception
7 pm...................................... Lamplighter Awards Dinner
9:30 pm................................ Hospitality Event/Dessert Bar

Friday, May 18

7:30 am................................ Breakfast

8-9 am.................................. Breakfast Workshop: America's New Healthcare Consumer

                                           Beth Austin, Crescendo Consulting
9-10:15 am.......................... Breakouts Sessions
                                           1. Why 500,000 Facebook Fans Are Not Enough
                                           Matthew Cyr, Children's Hospital
                                           2. Yes, You Can Make an App for That— But Should You?
                                          Jim Rattray, Southcoast Health System
10:15-11 am........................ Break with exhibitors & Check out
11am-12:30 pm.................. Building a New Brigade: Capitalizing on New Media To Make Physicians Eager to

                                           Join You, Dan Dunlop, Jennings
12:30 pm.............................. Adjourn with a boxed lunch