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APSA 2008 Annual Meeting Report

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Kofi Mensah, APSA Newsletter Co-Editor and New APSA Public Relations Committee Vice-Chair

"It was great to get a vision for what our futures might be." That is how Brian Fuehrlein, one of the four founding members of APSA and institutional representative from the University of Florida described the recently concluded APSA Fourth Annual Meeting. As has become tradition, the meeting was held in Chicago at the end of April in conjunction with the annual joint meeting of the American Association of Physicians (AAP) and the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), which celebrated its centennial anniversary. This year, there were over 200 attendees, and 60-70% of them attended for the first time. This compares with about 140 attendees last year - a testament to the rapid and wide-spread growth of APSA since its inception in 2004. The fourth annual meeting was marked by several firsts for APSA as well as milestones in our burgeoning organization.