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Kerry Weinger Advises How to Enable Employee Mobility

With over 30 years of international experience, Kerry Weinger advises multinational employers on the tax, social security. He advises employers and management in a variety of international human resources matters such as implementing global stock plans.

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August 27, 2012

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Improve the Healthcare Experience - Love Your Patients

Presented by the author of the book, the session Love Your Patients: Improving Patient Satisfaction with Essential Behaviors. It will focus on the importance of love in healthcare as it is comprised of compassion, respect and humility.

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August 22, 2012

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Jeffrey Chen Explains How to Manage a Benefit Program with the Challenges and Trends in China

Aging population, funding of social security, tax treatment, rising labor cost are all challenges of the benefit market in China. In a changing society, to design and manage a benefit program can be a very challenging task.

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August 20, 2012

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Carolyn Nye Emphasizes the Importance of Personalized Marketing

Carolyn Nye will lead the session Persuading Through Caring: Connecting with Patients on a Personal Level. She will be explaining the magnitude of Triggers & Targeting marketing to receive the best outcomes and genuine interest from prospective clients.‍

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August 17, 2012

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Learn How to Persuade Through Caring, Empathy and Emotion from Kate O'Neill

Kate O'Neill, Founder and Creator of meta marketer will lead the session Persuading Through Caring: Connecting with Patients on a Personal Level. She will be explaining the importance of creating a relationship with the patient/customer so they can have good faith in your services or products.

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August 16, 2012

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Learn About the Benefits in the Andean, Central American and Caribbean (AnCeCa) from Robert DiCianni

Robert DiCianni will be leading the session Benefits in the AnCeCa Region at the 5th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress. He is responsible for driving growth in the corporation through the design and implementation of strategies and policies.

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August 13, 2012

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Dr. Paata Ratiani Educates How to Understand the Russian Speaking Patient

A pioneer in medical tourism in Georgia Dr. Ratiani works in Berlin providing consultation regarding the Russian consumer markets. He has been successful in the last seven years developing medical tourism and is one of the most advanced medical tourism player in Eastern Europe.

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August 10, 2012

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Dr. Mona Khanna Leads the Medical Tourism Media & Press Training Workshop

P. Mona Khanna is a triple board-certified physician and Emmy award-winning medical journalist serves as the Medical Contributor. After completing three medical specialty residencies, she worked her way up as a medical reporter.

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August 9, 2012

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Breckon Jones - Keynote Speaker for the World Medical Tourism Congress & the Global Benefits Conference

American Express Healthy Living & Wider Benefits Program has won several European and International awards. The MTA is elated to announce that Breckon Jones will be a keynote speaker at the 5th World Medical Tourism Congress.

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August 8, 2012

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Peter W. Carmel - Keynote Speaker at the 5th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress

The MTA is proud to announce that Dr. Peter Carmel will be a keynote speaker at the 5th World Medical Tourism Congress. The event is a platform for healthcare leaders, governments, employers, providers and academics to network and work together.

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August 2, 2012

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Medical Tourism Association's Featured Member - Medical Tours Costa Rica

MTCR specializes in providing individuals, medical travel facilitators and corporate clients with medical care coordination and travel support services. Brad and Bill Cook founded MTCR to create and manage Hospital Clinica Biblica's International Patient Department.

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July 11, 2012

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Medical Tourism Association's Featured Member - UC San Diego Health System

UC San Diego Health System is the only academic health system, providing excellent and compassionate patient care. It comprises UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, and UC San Diego Thornton Hospital, Moores Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Center and many more.

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June 26, 2012

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Wellmed (Wellness and Medical Nicaragua) - Nicaraguan Based Facilitating Services

Wellmed is the first Medical Tourism facilitator working from Nicaragua with presence in the United States. Wellmed provides solutions both to patients looking for quality procedures/services at affordable prices and to doctors and hospitals looking to improve their market.

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June 18, 2012

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Med Tourism & Consulting Facilitating services to the Caribbean

Med Tourism & Consulting, Inc. (MTC) is a corporation created to facilitate health tourism services in the Caribbean. To serve as a liaison and coordinator between customers and the most qualified providers in health tourism.

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June 11, 2012

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Is globalization responsible for ruining ethnic features and increasing plastic surgery?

Turkish television reaches bordering countries and people from the Middle East are taking measures to look like those actors. I was watching a television series on plastic surgery, one patient really caught my attention, she was a young Asian-American woman.

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May 15, 2012

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Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit (CHRIS)- May 7th-8th - Miami, Florida.

The Medical Tourism Association is excited to participate in the upcoming Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit (CHRIS). The opportunity in the Caribbean is growing therefore CHRIS is inviting owners, lenders, developers, hotel chain/management company.

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May 3, 2012

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Could This Make Us Another Step Closer to Curing Cancer?

A new study funded by Cancer Research UK found that breast cells could be categorized in about 10 different types of diseases.‍ Depending whether the cells mutated, became inactive or became overactive, a different treatment would be recommended.‍

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April 19, 2012

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The Gastric Balloon- A new weight loss tool or a waste of time?

Gastric Balloon implantation is fairly new procedure that was first introduced in Canada in 2006. The procedure involves a liquid filled balloon placed into the stomach of the patient through the esophagus for the duration of approximately six months.

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April 12, 2012

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Outsourcing a Womb

For couples that are struggling to conceive a baby, in-vitro fertilization can be their saving grace. One of the major debates of traveling abroad for this service is many believe this is a way of exploiting the poor.

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April 5, 2012

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Turkish Airlines offers special discount for medical tourism patients

Turkish Airlines is offering special package rates to support those traveling to Turkey for medical treatment. The most popular reasons for treatment are dental, laser eye surgery, in vitro fertilization and various plastic surgery procedures.‍

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March 29, 2012

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Minimal Scar Hair Transplantation

Many people are interested in minimal scar procedures from tummy tucks to breast augmentation, but how about hair restoration? Hair transplantation could be a great option as a medical tourism procedure because the recovery time is very minimal.

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March 22, 2012