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The Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting brings together more than 3,500 of the brightest minds in the field of aging. This meeting is the premier gathering of gerontologists from both the United States and around the world. They participate in over 400 scientific sessions including symposia, paper, and poster presentations.

The 2012 Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes relating to Aging and Society. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations.

More than 11,000 attendees are expected at this years ASTRO meeting, which will be held in Boston the week of Halloween. Presenters include oncologists, biologists, radiation therapists, physicists, oncology nurses and other cancer researchers. 

ASBMR 2012 includes lectures, roundtables and plenary presentations from leading researchers and clinicians in the field of bone and mineral science. The meeting will be held in mid-October in Minneapolis.

The health care reform law institutes changes, beginning Oct. 1, to standardize billing and requires health plans to begin implementing rules for the secure, confidential, electronic exchange of health information.

The 2012 RDC Annual Conference will showcase research from the nationwide network of RDCs – including research using demographic, business, and linked employee-employer data from the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as health data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The National Adult Day Services Conference will be held in Pittsburgh through September 20-22, 2012. The conference brings people from around the country together to discuss innovative community based care practices.

The Annual Meeting & OTO Expo will be held this fall in the nation's capitol. It is the world's largest conference of otolaryngologists -- head and neck surgeons -- and researchers, educators and clinicians in head and neck medicine. This year marks the Academy's 116th meeting.

The Union for International Cancer Control partners with Fondation québécoise du cancer, McGill University and Université de Montréal to host its bienniel 2012 World Cancer Congress this August. The conference's theme this year is "Connecting for Global Impact" and focuses on ways cancer researchers and clinicians can unite to treat and prevent cancer.

Pioneer Network's highly anticipated national conference is the nation's largest and most successful conference of its kind. The three-day conference is a showcase for innovative thought and transformative practices in the long-term care culture change movement — as well as an opportunity to facilitate communication among people interested in propelling this important work. 

In early August, the American Psychological Association will host its 120th annual meeting in Orlando. The conference will feature poster sessions, exhibitors and more than 80 workshops related to psychological health and psychology research. APA is the world's largest organization of psychologists with more than 137,000 members.

AAIC will be held this year from July 14 - 19 in downtown Vancouver. Symposia will highlight research and practice that surrounds alzheimer's disease, dementia and related diseases.

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2012 will be held in Vancouver, Canada through July 14-19. The conference will let the world's leading dementia scientists share the latest thoughts and theories in the field. AAIC 2012 will offer a new conference track focused on social, behavioral and care research and practice, designed for dementia care researchers and practitioners.

The 2012 AOSSM Annual Meeting will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center from June 12 - 15. This conference will highlight the latest advances in sports medicine research and practice.

Nutrition is an important factor in aging and cognitive functions. The meeting will focus on maintaining function with age: physical, cognitive, nutrition, brain and muscle function, prevention of frailty with advancing age.

The n4a 37th Annual Conference & Tradeshow will be held in Denver, Colorado from July 7-11, 2012 to showcase the most innovative policies, programs and services that assist older adults, persons with disabilities and their caregivers.

The AMQoL conference will be held at University of Michigan, June 24-26th, 2012. The conference  will focus on meeting the transport/mobility needs of older adults so as to improve their access to the various activities and services that underlie health, well-being, and quality of life.

This year's conference marks the 94th meeting of the Endocrine Society. Attendees can look forward to more than 200 sessions focused on endocrinology and 350 presentations from expert endocrinologists.

This year's SLEEP meeting will happen in Boston over five days in early June. It will feature scientific sessions and an exhibition hall that deliver information about sleep research and sleep medicine.

The American Diabetes Association holds its 72nd Scientific Sessions this June at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. More than 13,000 diabetes experts are expected to attend.

The EULAR Congress 2012 in Berlin will offer professional training and panels on clinical innovations, clinical translational and basic science related to rheumatism and arthritis. There will be discussions led by people with arthritis as well as by clinical health professionals and by those affiliated with the health care industry. EULAR 2012 will also host guests from the Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) in a joint congres.

The Health Data Initiative was launched in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as the Community Health Data Initiative. It is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark community action to improve health.

The year's ASCO meeting's theme is "Collaborating to Conquer Cancer" and is hosted in Chicago at the McCormick Place conference center. Panels, symposia and research sessions focus around clinical and scientific issues surrounding cancer.

The 41st annual American Aging Association (AGE) meeting will be held in Fort Worth, TX on June 1–4, 2012. The meeting is designed to explore emerging areas in the biology of aging and also to update and reconsider previous advances in understanding and mitigating aging and related diseases. A highlight of this year’s meeting will be the exploration of the interaction of biological age and effectiveness of health-promoting interventions. The annual AGE meeting is the preeminent forum for advancing the field of biogerontology through critical discussion and presentation of novel findings.

The 7th Annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium Symposium, Novel Approaches and Therapy Development for Pain Management, will be held in conjunction with a Food and Drug Administration workshop, Assessment of Analgesic Treatment of Chronic Pain at NIH campus. The NIH Pain Consortium Symposium will focus on research advances related to therapy development of novel opioid analgesic formulations and approaches, novel nonopioid analgesic development and testing, and nonpharmacological strategies as adjuncts to pain management.

This conference of sports medicine professionals includes symposia, posters, panels and more. This year also marks the third annual world congress on "exercise is medicine" and hosts speakers and attendees from more than 70 specializations within sports medicine.

The AACE Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress aims to provide practical training and information for practicing clinical endocrinologists. The meeting will include general sessions, workshops, meetings with clinical experts and satellite symposia. Further, more than 70 exhibitors will be present.

Digestive Disease Week is the world's largest conference of gastrointestinal specialists and researchers who specialize in gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. Last year, roughly 300 companies from the pharmaceutical, nutrition, technology and noprofit industries exhibited their products and services at 1,000 booths. There will also be myriad presentations on healthcare technologies and gastrointestinal health products. Digestive Disease Week also hosts press releases and has its own newsroom for media benefit.

The world's largest conference of urologists, which meets this year in Atlanta, offers than 100 courses and 2,000 presentations on urologic medicine. It provides access to new urology research, medical guidelines and advances.

The 27th annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension will convene in New York City on May 19, 2012. The conference aims to promote treatments, diagnoses and research related to hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

This conference of pulmonologists, critical care specialists and sleep specialists will gather in San Francisco in late May 2012.

The John A. Hartford Foundation will hold a briefing about its first national survey, which exposes large and troubling gaps in the primary care that many older adults receive.

The 2012 annual conference of the American Society on Aging will examine the future of entitlement programs, health reform, and the Older Americans Act, among many other subjects.

To help understand and reduce persistent health disparities, the health reform law requires, beginning in March 2012, any ongoing or new federal health program to collect and report racial, ethnic, and language data.