MEETINGS

The SSCI co-sponsors the annual Southern Regional Meeting along with the SAFMR, SSPR, SSGIM, and APA. Beginning in 2007, the North American Chapter of the International Academy for Cardiovascular Sciences has joined the meeting.  For the next three years, the meeting will be held in February at the Inter-Continental Hotel in downtown New Orleans (several blocks from the French Quarter).

SUMMARY

The February, 2007 Southern Regional Meeting had over 450 participants, including medical students, residents, fellows, and academic faculty in pediatrics, general internal medicine, internal medicine, and all medicine subspecialties. This number does not include the over 200 attendees of the SSGIM portion of the meeting.  The three-day meeting includes workshops, symposia, a poster session, oral abstract sessions, awards ceremonies, business meetings, and social events including a Jazz Luncheon, SSCI New Member’s reception, and subspecialty dinner-symposia. Joan Kemp, Executive Director of the SSCI, deserves credit for organizing and running smooth meetings year after year.