The Vienna Academy of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research is Austria's most traditional conference & association management institution in the health care field, providing leadership, organizational guidance, headquarters facilities and staff resources to around 30 medical conferences per year and 21 medical associations. It was founded in 1924 - managed for years by the Nobel laureate Julius Wagner-Jauregg. The PCO is a nonprofit organization and our board consists only of faculty members of the Vienna University School of Medicine. This Institution always has been, and continues to be, a conference and association management organization dedicated to serving the needs of the medical nonprofit community.

We continue to expand the services available to our clients because of the talented people we retain, our combined professional experience, our focus on excellent service and our ongoing investment in office facilities and information technology. We have a strong commitment to quality, service and value which is hard to match by other conference management organizations in the health care field.

In addition to the services you probably know from other PCOs, we can provide your conference with a new online-abstract-submission software (developed by Goldbook®), that permits not only convenient and user friendly submission for the participants, but also online reviewing and scoring by the jury. Online author notification is also possible. Printing costs are being minimized, as all abstracts are being stored in a ready-to-print database.

World Wide Web-presence hosted by the Vienna Medical Academy server offers multiple opportunities like online registration, credit card payment, abstract submission, program- and abstract-viewing as well as discussion fora. Additional services, like a message system, the personal.itinary.finder® that guides you through the conference and the supplier.finder® (used exclusively in Europe by the VMA) linked to the commercial exhibition, can be provided on site.

The Vienna Medical Academy offers a cost-effective infrastructure that would minimize your investment but maximize the flexibility in terms of staffing and program development. Within the framework of our services, various administrative tasks are efficiently addressed by specialized staff: Accounting, Convention & Trade Show Management, Human Resources, Information Services, Office Services and Public Relations. The PCO is specialized in the needs of the health care field and manages conferences with total operating budgets ranging from EURO 50,000 to EURO 2 millions. In the past 40 years, we have provided professional services to more than 800 national and international conferences.

We enjoy an excellent reputation among national and international health care professionals, medical societies, business partners, conference centers, major hotel companies and convention bureaus.