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 (locations, dates) are:

• ANCO's ASCO Highlights 2018 (August 25, 2018; The Claremont Resort, Oakland)

• 3Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Update (September 15, Stanford Park Hotel, Palo Alto)

• 4Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Update (November 17, San Francisco Hyatt Regency)

• 19th Multidisciplinary Management of Cancers: A Case-based Approach (March 15-17, Napa)

Materials from recent clinical education meetings:

• ANCO's 2Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Gabriel Mannis, M.D., ANCO Hematologic Malignancies Update: Acute Leukemia

Joseph Tuscano, M.D., An Update in the Treatment of Lymphoma
Jeffrey Wolf, M.D., Myeloma: Closer to a Cure than Ever Before

Nseem Esteghamat, M.D., ANCO Hematologic Malignancies Updates: Leukemias, Lymphomas, and Myeloma

• 18th Multidisciplinary Management of Cancers: A Case-based Approach
Tumor Board Cases

• Best of SABCS San Francisco

Sara Hurvitz, M.D., Updates in Treatment of  HER2+ Disease

Jo Chien, M.D., Optimal Treatment of Hormone Receptor Positive Disease

Hope S. Rugo, M.D., Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer

Melinda L. Telli, M.D., Novel Therapeutics for Advanced Breast Cancer

Michael D. Alvarado, M.D., Advances in Approaches to Local-Regional Disease

Virginia Kaklamani, M.D., SABCS 2017 Breast Cancer Updates: Survivorship

Laura J van't Veer, Ph.D., New Directions in Translational Research, Prognostic Markers, and Resistance Mechanisms

Instructions for attendees on how to claim their CME credits

• ANCO's 4Q2017 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Mehrdad Abedi's Updates in Hematology: ANCO 2017

Sandy Wong's Updates on the Treatments of Multiple Myeloma and Light-Chain Amyloidosis

Leena Rahmat's Clinical Case Studies

• ANCO's 3Q2017 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Babis Andreadis's ANCO Update in Lymphomas 2017

Bruno C. Medeiros's Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Progress at last

Brian Sworder's Clinical Case Vignettes

• Margaret Tempero & Wes Kidder's The State of Cancer Care

• California's End of Life Option Act Webinar and Additional Resources
Listen/watch to the webinar (apologies for the truncated beginning of this recording)

Download the slides and Act

California Hospital Association's Guidance

Califormia Medical Association's Guidance

POLST and Death with Dignity Statutes

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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:

• ANCO's 2018 Professional Education Meeting (September 19, 2018; The Claremont Resort, Oakland)

Materials from recent professional education meetings:

• ANCO's Medicare Reimbursement for Oncology 2018

Bobbi Buell's Hot Topics in Reimbursement 2018

Bobbi Buell's Revenue Cycle State of the State

• ANCO's 2017 Professional Education Meeting
Elaine Towle's The MACRA Quality Payment Program: It's not too late to participate in 2017!

Stephanie Kriston's USP 797/800 for California Oncology Practices

Nicette Short's Legislative/Regulatory Update

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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

• Highlights from the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting (Part I of Your Guide to the Latest Cancer Research; Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, August 23)

• Highlights from the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting (Part II of Your Guide to the Latest Cancer Research; Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, August 28)

• ASH Meeting on Hematologic Malignancies (Chicago, September 7-8)

• The Emerging Role of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Lymphoma (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, September 13)

• ASCO Advocacy Summit (Washington, D.C., September 25-26)

• The Benefits of Clinical Trials for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, September 26)

• Oncology Practice Conference: The Business of Cancer Care (ASCO, Phoenix, September 27)

• Quality Care Symposium (ASCO, Phoenix, September 28-29)

• 35th National Oncology Conference (ACCC), Phoenix, October 17-19)

• Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, October 18)

• Coping with Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, October 23)

• Genomic Testing and Current Trends in the Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, November 13)

• Update on CAR-T Cell Therapy for People Living with Lymphoma (Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, November 16)

• Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium (ASCO, San Diego, November 16-17)

• Best of World Conference on Lung Cancer (International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, San Francisco, November 17)

• What's New in the Treatment of Lung Cancer (Part I of Living with Lung Cancer; Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, November 20)

• For Caregivers: Practical Tips for Coping with Your Loved One's Lung Cancer (Part II of Living with Lung Cancer; Cancer Care Connect Education Workshop, November 27)

• 60th Annual Meeting (ASH, San Diego, December 1-4)

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