Though it's more than two years away, a national medical convention's return to downtown has Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau leaders high-fiving now, Sherri Welch reports at Crain's Detroit Business.
The 2015 annual conference of the National Medical Association is on its way to Detroit . . . [and] is expected to generate about $2.7 million in economic impact. But its ripple effect could be even bigger.
"Where NMA goes, many other [medical groups] follow," said Robert Riney, Henry Ford Health System president and COO, who was elected to his second term as chairman of the Detroit-based visitors bureau at its annual meeting Monday.
Crain's doesn't say how many NMA visitors are expected, and the group's media contact didn't respond to a Deadline Detroit inquiry.
Doctors, nurses and health administrators in the African American medical group will return to a city that hosted their group's convention four times between 1927 and 1979, according to its website. NMA members met in New Orleans last summer, will gather in Toronto this July and meet in Honolulu next year.
