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:

• Best of ASCO (The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, July 16-17, 2010; watch for an ANCO event at ASCO's Best of ASCO)

Materials from recent clinical education meetings:

• San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Highlights 2009

• ASCO/ONS 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:

• TBA

Materials from recent professional education meetings:

• 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

• Caring for Your Bones When You Have Prostate Cancer (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, March 25th, 2010)

• Caring for Your Bones When You Have Breast Cancer (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, March 26th, 2010)

• Innovations in Urologic Oncology: Bladder Cancer--What's New, What's Needed, What's Next (UCSF, San Francisco, April 9th, 2010)

• The Eighth Annual Cancer Survivorship Series: Living With, Through, and Beyond Cancer,
Part I--Trouble Sleeping, Sleep Better to Feel Better, and Tips You Can Use (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, April 13th, 2010)

• Brain Tumors: Current Treatments and Hope for the Future (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, April 15th, 2010)

• Advances in the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, April 16th, 2010)

• 2010 Oncology/Hematology Practice Management Conference (Medical Group Management Association; Indianapolis; April 18-20th, 2010)

• Breast Cancer and Africa-American Women (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, April 28th, 2010)

• Advances in Bone Health for People Living with Cancer (CancerCare, Telephone Education Workshop, April 30th, 2010)

• Radiation Oncology Update: Management of Recurrent Disease (UCSF, San Francisco, April 30th-May 2nd, 2010)

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