Ascend Media, established in 2000 and headquartered in Overland Park, Ohio, is a diversified business media organization. It owns and operates professional magazines and journals, organizes trade shows, conferences and educational programs, and maintains online properties and database serving the medical, health care and professional service industries. In the medical and allied health care industries, the company publishes more than 30 journals and magazines and serves over 40 medical associations with daily newspapers, directories and marketing programs. Additionally, the company organizes continuing medical education programs and symposiums. Ascend Media also operates a diversified professional services group, focused on providing event-related publishing, in partnership with leading trade associations. It delivers more than 20 publications and events for the food, beverage, packaging, trade show, professional audio and video and gaming industries. Ascend Media is financially backed by two leading private equity firms, J.P. Morgan Partners and Veronis Suhler Stevenson.