Make the most out of your visit to Atlanta, GA during the 2011 AACC Annual Meeting.
Use this online registration system to help create your personal agenda for the Annual
Meeting. Choose your sessions by topic, by program type, or by date and time, or by
speaker.
AACC has many exciting session types to facilitate your education in Atlanta, GA. Below
are detailed descriptions for each type of 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.
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.
Food, for purchase, will be available near these sessions.
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.