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 disseminates information about several clinical education programs per year organized by our Institutional Members.

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

• ASCO's Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (February 2nd-4th, 2012; San Francisco Marriott Marquis)

• ASH's Highlights of ASH (February 3rd-4th, 2012; San Francisco)

• 13th Multidisciplinary Management of Cancers: A Case-based Approach (Stanford Cancer Center, March 9-10th, 2012, Stanford)

• UCSF Radiation Oncology Update: Combined Therapies, Combined Images, Combined Vision (UCSF, The St Regis Hotel, San Francisco, March 16-18th, 2012)

• ASCO/ONS Highlights 2012 (TBA)

Materials from recent clinical eduation meetings:

• SABCS Highlights 2011

• ASCO/ONS Highlights 2011

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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:

• TBA

Materials from recent professional education meetings:

• Oncology Reimbursement 2012

• Managing Medicare for the Practicing Oncologist

• Oncology Reimbursment 2011

• Chemotherapy Safety: Preventing Oncology Medication Errors

• ANCO/MOASC's Business of Oncology 2010 and Beyond

• An Economic Assessment of ANCO Member Practices

• Payer & Patient Payments for Oncology Services

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

• ACCC's Meetings

• ASCO's Meetings

• ASH's Meetings

• The Latest Developments Reported at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, February 8th, 2012)

• Update on the Treatment of Liver Cancer (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, February 9th, 2012)

• Update on the 2011 ASH Annual Meeting (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, February 14th, 2012)

• 32nd Annual Conference: Clinical Hematology & Oncology (Scripps Cancer Center, San Diego, February 18th-21st, 2012)

• Medical Update on Pancreatic Cancer (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, February 29th, 2012)

• 11thh Annual Allison Taylor Holbrooks/Barbara Jo Johnson Breast Cancer Conference (Cancer Prevention Institute of California, San Francisco, March 3rd, 2012)

• Medical Update on Ovarian Cancer (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, March 6th, 2012)

• The Importance of Taking Your Pills on Schedule: Understanding Adherence (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, March 8th, 2012)

• Progress in the Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, March 14th, 2012)

• Advances in the Treatment of Lung Cancer (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, March 16th, 2012)

• Medical Update on Myelofibrosis (CancerCare, Connect Education Workshop, March 28th, 2012)

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