AACC has many exciting session types to facilitate your education during this year's AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta, GA.  Below are detailed descriptions for each professional education session.

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

Online Plenary Sessions
Although you may not be able to attend the entire annual meeting, please sign up for the live streaming video of Dr. Doris Taylor’s presentation on Stem Cells, Decellularization and the Future of Building Organs. This presentation is free of charge but you must register in advance. This session will be streamed live on Tuesday, July 26 from 8:45 a.m. until 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Interactive Workshops
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.

Brown Bag Sessions
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.

Meet the Experts
An opportunity for you to join a small group of interested colleagues for intense discussions with Plenary speakers and other invited experts. These sessions provide the change for in-depth, interactive discussion.

Chairs Invited Sessions
The Chair of the 2011 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee created this special session of particular importance to annual meeting attendees.

AACC University
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 non-conference activities such as the Expo or committee meetings.

For more information about the conference program during the annual meeting, click here.