This was the excellent program. Thanks to Kathleen McDonough.

Here are some of the highlights.

Presidents "turnover"

Carol Wells and David Hoyt

Posters in the desert

Many new members in the Society

David Brackett

celebrating birthday at the meeting.

Hank Simmons and Carol Wells presenting Travel and Young Investigator Awards

HongKuan Fan, PhD - The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, (Paper 72)
Kinga Powers, MD - University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Paper 73)
Zhihong Hu, MD - Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, Il (Paper 76)
Preya Ananthakrishnan, MD - UMDJN-New Jersey Medical School, Newark NJ (Paper 12)
Katherine Barness, MD - University of Colorado, Denver, CO (Paper 39)
Konstantin Umanskiy, MD - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (Paper 47)
Dirk Henrich, Dr. phil.nat. - JW-Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, (Paper 52)
Octavia Peck - The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (Paper 67)
Xiaoxuan Cui, MD,PhD - North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Manhasset, NY (Paper 99)
Rongqian Wu, MD, PhD - North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Manhasset NY (Paper 126)
David Cohen, MD - New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ (Paper 138)
Claudio Lagoa, DVM - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Paper 150)
David Santone - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (Paper 162)
Alia Shah - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Galveston, TX (Paper 163)
Albert Swafford - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA (Paper 167)
Hiroyuki Tanaka, PhD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Paper 168)
Hiroyuki Tanaka, PhD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Paper 168)
Niamh Choileain - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Paper 179)
Jennifer Rietfors - University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA (Paper 191)
Forest Sheppard, MD - UCHSC and DHMC, Denver, CO (Paper 192)
Bashir Attuwaybi, MD - University of Texas, Houston, TX (Paper 194)
Joanne Lomas - University of Rhode Island/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence RI (Paper 197)
John Cha, MD - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO, (Paper 233)
Mark Lehnert, MD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (Paper 81)

with the winner Kinga Powers

Scientific Achievement Award for Arthur Bane

together with his "boys".

"Speciality" Awards

e.g. for "guiding" the runners

Jureta Horton

at the Fun Run

led by Mark Clemens

with the help of the Marshalls.

Some with experience

but all runners full of energy.

Afterwards water was well accepted

and sufficient ice available

except on the golf course.