History of the Conference
All previous conferences have been extremely successful in fostering relationships between academics, students, and practitioners from fields such as, general business administration, healthcare administration, finance, management, marketing, information management, medicine, nursing, occupational/ physical therapy, pharmacy, dentistry, and education. Participants from many countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Columbia, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Slovakia, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S. have attended previous conferences.
This conference was started by the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, Texas, USA, under the leadership of Dr. Paul T. Bruder. Delegates attending the first conference in May 2000 came from U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, Slovakia, Spain, and Columbia. Over twenty-five different institutions from the United States were represented at this conference. The collegial environment, the overall cost of attending the conference, as well as the quality of the conference encouraged Baskent University in Turkey to propose hosting the second international conference in Ankara, Turkey in 2002. By this time a strong group of dedicated individuals from numerous institutions had already started talking about a succession plan for the conference.
At the 2002 conference, delegates from Marshall University, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Medical University of Slovakia indicated interest in hosting the conference. During the conference, the delegates also determined that this conference should be help every two years and on the last day of the conference, it was announced that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th conferences would be held in Charleston, WV (2004), Bratislava, Slovakia (2006), and Milwaukee, WI (2008) respectively. The sixth conference was hosted by Zirve University in Gaziantep, Turkey in October 2010. In January 2013 Jaipur University in Jaipur, India hosted the seventh conference. The eighth conference was in June 2014 at Harlaxton, followed by a return to Jaipur in 2015. The January 2017 conference was at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies in Pune, India. The eleventh conference was hosted by IMS Unison University, Dehradun, India, January 2 – 3, 2018.
The locations and dates of these conferences are summarized below.
|
Conf. # |
Primary Sponsoring Host Institution(s) |
Conf. Location |
Date
|
Approx. # of Attendees |
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1 |
Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico, andthe University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, Texas, USA | Queretaro, Mexico | May 2000 | 75 |
|
2 |
Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey | Ankara, Turkey | July 2002 | 100 |
|
3 |
Marshall University, Charleston, West Virginia, USA | Charleston, West Virginia, USA | October 2004 | 250 |
|
4 |
Medical University of Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia, and,University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA | Bratislava, Slovakia | July 2006 | 75 |
|
5 |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | October 2008 | 175 |
|
6 |
Zirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey | Gaziantep, Turkey | October 2010 | 150 |
|
7 |
Jaipur National University | Jaipur, India | January2013 | 160 |
|
8 |
Harlaxton College, University of Evansville, Indiana, USA, Study Abroad Location in UK | Grantham, UK | June 2014 | 75 |
|
9 |
Jaipur National University | Jaipur, India | January 2015 | 150 |
|
10 |
Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies | Pune, India | January 2017 | 100 |
|
11 |
IMS Unison University | Dehradun, India | January 2018 | 100 |
A brief listing of some of the institutions that were represented at past six conferences:
| University of Houston-Victoria, Texas | USA |
| Tulane University, Louisiana | USA |
| Jaipur National University | INDIA |
| European University of Lefke | Turkish Republic of North Cypress |
| Trinity University, Texas | USA |
| Trnava University, Slovakia | SLOVAKIA |
| Monmouth University, New Jersey | USA |
| University of Evansville, Indiana | USA |
| University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas | USA |
| Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania | USA |
| Baskent University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| Creighton University, Nebraska | USA |
| Devi Ahilya University, India | INDIA |
| Gazi University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| The Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico | INDIA |
| University of Gaziantep, Turkey | TURKEY |
| University of Scranton, Pennsylvania | USA |
| University of the Pacific, California | USA |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin | USA |
| West Virginia State University, West Virginia | USA |
| Zirve University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| Gazi University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| Clayton State University, Georgia | USA |
| Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, India | INDIA |
| Baskent, University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| International Neurotrauma Research Institute | AUSTRIA |
| The Autonomous University of Queretaro | MEXICO |
| University of Florida, Florida | USA |
| Washington State University, Washington | USA |
| Marshall University, West Virginia | USA |
| University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas | USA |
| Ankara University, Turkey | TURKEY |
| The University of Technology, Sydney | AUSTRALIA |