Medical conference strategy & planning
MARS Strategic Conference Partners plans and produces medical conferences for healthcare professionals, from multi-day clinical conferences to virtual programs and expert consensus roundtables. We handle strategy, content, sponsorship, production and logistics so faculty and attendees can focus on the science.
Where we've worked
A complex, multi-day clinical conference in Las Vegas with multiple tracks, an exhibit hall and industry programming.
A destination program in Hawaii that pairs a full scientific agenda with the logistics of a resort setting.
Online programs with professional streaming, moderation and tools that keep remote attendees engaged.
Closed-door expert meetings built around a focused clinical question, with structured discussion and documented outcomes.
Start early
The best venues and dates book 12 to 24 months out. Let's talk now.
About us
MARS Strategic Conference Partners was founded by Ali Scheck and Rakesh Malik to bring strategic thinking and hands-on execution to dermatology and medical conferences. When you work with us, the founders are on your project from first planning call to final reconciliation.
Co-founder · Medical education & attendee experience
Ali has spent more than 20 years in continuing medical education, managing complex conferences and the client and attendee experience around them. Most recently, as Chief Experience Officer at HCEsquared, Ali spent nearly eight years shaping how clinicians experience medical education programs.
Co-founder · Production & content
Rakesh has produced conferences and events for more than 20 years, with deep experience in production, programming and event operations. At Dermsquared he spent over seven years leading production for dermatology conferences.
Why MARS?
MARS is a play on our initials. It also hints at our ambition to take every event intergalactic. We like to have fun, and we don't take ourselves too seriously.
The one thing we do take very seriously is your goals and objectives. Every decision we make on your event starts there.
How we work
We know the medical community, its faculty, its industry partners and the compliance rules that shape medical conferences.
Every program starts with what the conference needs to achieve for attendees, faculty and sponsors. Logistics follow from there.
The people who plan your conference are the people running it on show days.
Services
Bring us in for the whole conference or for the parts your team needs help with. Our work includes large, complex multi-day clinical conferences in destinations such as Las Vegas and Hawaii.
We help shape a conference's purpose and program: which topics to cover, how sessions flow, and how faculty, formats and timing come together into an agenda attendees value.
We build sponsorship programs that deliver real value to industry partners while giving attendees something worth stopping for. The goal is activations that are interactive, not just logos on a wall.
We design and manage the production behind the program, from general session staging to the event technology that keeps attendees engaged, and we keep looking for new tools that make conferences better.
We handle the core planning work every conference depends on, with the care a clinical audience expects.
Conference formats
Large conferences of 300 to 2,000 attendees with multiple tracks, exhibit halls, industry programs and destination logistics.
Webinars and virtual programs with professional streaming, moderation and engagement tools.
Focused expert meetings with structured discussion and documented outcomes.
Contact us
Whether you're planning a multi-day conference, a virtual program or an expert roundtable, we'd like to hear about it. Email us directly or share a few details using the form, and one of our founders will get back to you personally.