AACC has scheduled a plethora of session types during this year's AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo. Detailed descriptions for each professional education session are included here.

 

Speakers with different perspectives on the future of healthcare are featured. Plenary speakers are nationally recognized leaders from clinical practice, research, business, and policy.

 

Presented by experts actively involved in the field. The educational mode is lecture and rooms are large and arranged theater style.

 

Intensive treatment of a particular subject. While the teaching method is traditional didactic lecture, these sessions are presented to smaller audiences of approximately 50 to 100 participants.

 

These sessions promote active participant involvement in the learning process. Expect frequent exchanges of information between speakers and the audience. Intensive treatment of a subject is presented in a context of dialogue and discussion.

 

Small discussion groups, early morning or during lunchtime, that provide an opportunity for intimate and active exchange among participants and noted experts in the field. Expect lively discussion, dialogue and debate, as well as frequent Q&A.

 

An opportunity to join a small group of interested colleagues for intense discussions with plenary speakers and other invited experts.

 

The Chair of the Meeting Organizing Committee created this special session of particular importance to annual meeting attendees.

Attend Sunday Interactive Workshops and/or Short Courses without paying the general registration fee for the Annual Meeting. This is ideal if the rest of your week is filled with nonconference activities such as the expo or committee meetings.