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Second APSA Texas Regional Meeting Recap

Suzanne Chan* and Chirag Patel**, *2006 Texas Regional Meeting Organizing Committee, **APSA Member at Large (MD/PhD, DO/PhD)

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After hosting the first APSA regional meeting in the nation in 2006, Texas hosted the 2nd APSA Texas Regional Meeting in Houston in November 2008. Despite delays from Hurricane Ike, perseverance paid off and the meeting was a success.

A Roundtable Discussion at the 2008 APSA Texas Regional Meeting

The meeting was hosted by the APSA chapter at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (UT-Houston). Suzanne Chan (member of the 2006 TX Meeting's Organizing Committee) and Chirag Patel (APSA Member at Large (MD/PhD, DO/PhD)) co-chaired the meeting, which was held in the Fayez Sarofim Building of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM). Thanks to the generosity of Thomas Caskey, MD (IMM Director), we were able to use the amazing facilities for a second year. Participants included students from MD/PhD, MD, PhD, and undergraduate programs, representing 11 medical schools and universities from around the state of Texas: UT-Houston, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), University of Texas-San Antonio, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M University and College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, Houston Baptist University, UT-Dallas, and Prairie View A&M. We even had an ambitious high school student from Bellaire High School in attendance.