ANCO organizes an ambitious annual clinical and professional education meeting schedule consisting of several Highlights programs, practice administrator meetings, and occasional special meetings. We also keep our members informed of other meetings of interest (in California and beyond), including ACCC's meetings, ASCO's Annual Meeting and Symposia & Workshops, and ASH's meetings.

The ANCO Education Committee and Board of Directors clinical education strategy (adopted in 2004) is as follows:

1. ANCO has very successfully organized several annual Highlights programs over the past several years. These have been our best attended, supported, and received programs to date. ANCO will expand (i.e., add time, national faculty, locations, delivery systems) to our existing offerings (i.e., San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ASH, ASCO) and add additional Highlights programs.
2. In light of a need for additional nursing continuing medical education and the PhRMA and OIG guidelines, ANCO will seek accreditation for ANCO clinical education meetings via our Institutional Members, other academic centers, ASCO, and possibly through IMQ/CMA.
3. ANCO will only consider proposals for single-sponsor, evening clinical education dinner meetings that feature the highest quality speakers (i.e., thought leaders) on the most important clinical topics.

ANCO's clinical education meetings, including Highlights meetings of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ASH Annual Meeting, and ASCO Annual Meeting present distinguished speakers on pertinent clinical topics in oncology. Participants not only learn at these meetings, but they enjoy a social dinner atmosphere with their colleagues. In addition, ANCO helps organize Stanford’s annual Northern California Tumor Board at Silverado, and disseminates information about several clinical education programs per year organized by our Institutional Members.

Upcoming clinical education meetings (speakers, locations, dates) are:

• MOASC's ONS Chemotherapy Certification Course (Courtyard Marriott, Pasadena; October 1st-2nd, 2010)

• ASCO's 2010 Breast Cancer Symposium (Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, MD; October 1st-3rd, 2010)

• 6th Annual Oncology Congress (The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, October 15-17th, 2010)

• ASH's 52nd Annual Meeting and Exposition (Orlando; December 4-7th, 2010)

Materials from recent clinical education meetings:

• San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Highlights 2009

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ANCO's professional education meetings present speakers on topics about the management of office-based medical practices and oncology reimbursement techniques. Participants not only learn at these meetings, but they also form a network of resources to turn to when billing and reimbursement and management issues arise.

Upcoming professional education meetings (speakers, locations, dates) are:

• ACCC's 27th National Oncology Economics Conference (St. Louis; September 29th-October 2nd, 2010)

Materials from recent professional education meetings:

• Washington Update: Legislative/Regulatory Impact on Oncology Practice

• An Economic Assessment of ANCO Member Practices

• Oncology Reimbursement 2010

• Payer & Patient Payments for Oncology Services (Brad Duke & Michelle Weiss)

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Other forthcoming meetings of potential interest to ANCO members are listed here.

• ACCC's Meetings

• ASCO's Annual Meeting and Symposia & Workshops

• ASH's Meetings

• Caregiving, Caregivers, & Cancer Conference (Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Stanford, September 11th, 2010)

• Treatment Update on Soft Tissue Sarcoma (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, September 21st, 2010)

• Oncology Nursing Care: Meeting Today's Challenges (Reed Medical Education, Las Vegas, September 23rd-25th, 2010)

• The Important Role of Clinical Trials (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, September 24th, 2010)

• 15th Annual North American Educational Forum on Lymphoma (Lymphoma Research Foundation, San Francisco, September 24-26th, 2010)

• Medical Update on T-Cell Lymphomas: Part I--Update on Perpheral T-Cell Lymphoma (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, September 29th, 2010)

• 21st Century Solid Tumor Treatment--State-of-the-Art (Oncology Care Live, Webcast September 29-30th, 2010).

• Mind-Body Medicine 2010 (Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington, D.C., October 2-6th, 2010)

• Annual Conference (California Hospice & Palliative Care Association, Las Vegas, October 4-6th, 2010)

• The Importance of Taking Your Pills Everyday on Schedule: Understanding Adherence (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, October 5th, 2010)

• Update on Metastatic Breast Cancer: What's New (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, October 14th, 2010)

• Medical Update on T-Cell Lymphomas: Part II--Update on Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, October 20th, 2010)

• Mastery of Myeloma Course (MediCom Worldwide, San Diego, October 23rd, 2010)

• Update on Lymphoma Treatment from the 2010 ASH Annual Meeting (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, December 15th, 2010)

• MACToberfest (Palmetto/J1MAC, Palm Springs, October 27-29th, 2010)

• The Latest Developments Reported at the 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, December 17th, 2010)

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