This year's AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo will be held on July 24-28 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Whether your interest lies in pharmacogenomics, autoimmune disease, toxicology, molecular diagnostics, cancer, microarray technologies, cardiac and vascular disease, interpreting lab data, or many more areas of the clinical lab field, the 2011 AACC Annual Meeting is the place for you.

AACC has been discussing the three pillars of the 2011 AACC Annual Meeting to demonstrate what the annual meeting has to offer all attendees. Those three pillars are the following:

Education: Learn from experts or share your own experiences in interactive sessions in areas such as pharmacogenomics, autoimmune disease, toxicology, molecular diagnostics, cancer, training of clinical lab personnel, microarray technologies, cardiac and vascular disease, interpreting lab data, and much more.

Networking: Find unparalleled opportunities to spend time with your peers from around the world in educational sessions, social events, and special interest group meetings, or over a cup of coffee.

Exposition: See the newest products for clinical laboratory diagnostics, including point-of-care testing, molecular and genetic testing, informatics and middleware, lab automation, as well as a special section devoted to original equipment manufacturers (OEM).

The following is this year's plenary session schedule:

Sunday, July 24, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Fulfilling a Promise of Personalized Genomic Medicine
Speaker:  Mary-Claire King, PhD, University of Washington

Monday, July 25, 8:45-10:15 a.m.
The Obesity Epidemic: Where Are We?
Speaker:  Jeffrey Koplan, MD, MPH, The Emory Global Health Institute

Tuesday, July 26, 8:45-10:15 a.m.
Stem Cells, Decellularization and the Future of Building Organs
Speaker:  Doris Taylor, PhD, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, July 27, 8:45-10:15 a.m.
Creatinine Calibration: an Inconvenient Truth
Speaker:  Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, John Hopkins University

Thursday, July 28, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Pharmacogenetics to Pharmacogenomics
Speaker:  Richard Weinshilboum, MD, Mayo Clinic

For more information about this year's AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo, click here.