Purpose: Designs the overall program for the Annual Meeting, including the identification of speakers, the development of the session schedule, and the selection of abstracts submitted through the scientific sections.
Tasks:
- Determine the theme and focus of the annual meeting
- Determine the basic schedule for the main conference events, working within the constraints of the facility and ASCPT’s budget
- Identify, select, solicit and invite the Featured Speakers, as well as the speakers for the State-of-the Art Lectures, and the Oral Presentations
- Select symposia and workshops
- Select and invite the annual Presidential Trainee Award Winners from the pool of trainees who submitted the top-rated abstracts for the conference
- Review and select the abstracts
- Coordinate the on-site introduction of the speakers at their sessions
- Participate, as needed by staff, in conference events on site, review conference evaluations and offer suggestions for future conferences accordingly
Time commitment: 12 hours in meetings; 10-15 hours outside of meetings.
Typical schedule: 3 conference calls (May, July, September)
1 face-to-face meeting (October)
Other considerations: Committee members are required to review abstracts and proposals for symposia and workshops. SPC members cannot review abstracts for their section.
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