News & Announcements

August 21, 2019

Draft Program for the 2019 Annual Meeting Now Available

Program Committee chairs Daniel Sharfstein and Michelle McKinley have been hard at work generating the program for our upcoming 2019 annual conference, which will take place November 21-24 in Boston, Massachusetts. You can now view a draft of this program.

For additional details about the 2019 annual conference, including information about registration and pre-conference workshops as well as a terrific travel guide prepared by out Local Arrangements Committee, please click here. See you in Boston!

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