he ASA 2007 Annual Meeting on October13-17 in San Francisco will incorporate 10 learning tracks as the Annual Meeting is planned and organized according to educational content.

The 2007 tracks are:

• ambulatory anesthesia,

• cardiac anesthesia,

• critical care medicine,

• fundamentals of anesthesiology,

• neuroanesthesia,

• obstetric anesthesia,

• pain medicine,

• pediatric anesthesia,

• professional issues, and

• regional anesthesia and acute pain.

A track is a concentrated curriculum on a focused area presented throughout the meeting. A key concept of the track system is to highlight aspects of subspecialty care that interest a broad audience. The track format is intended to foster the integration of subspecialty anesthesiologists with the needs of the membership as a whole. Track content will be spread across the entire five days of the meeting and will consist of a variety of learning formats: Refresher Courses, workshops, panels, luncheon panels, point-counterpoint sessions, Problem-Based Learning Discussions and Breakfast Panels. Tracks will not be assigned to specific days.

Sessions will be held at the Moscone Center. The Committee on Annual Meeting Oversight has standardized sessions by type and starting times.
All exhibits will be located at the Moscone Center. Medically Challenging Cases, introduced last year in the exhibit hall to provide an opportunity to discuss particularly interesting cases, will be featured adjacent to the Scientific and Educational Exhibits.

Co-headquarters hotels will be the San Francisco Hilton and the San Francisco Marriott Downtown. House of Delegates activities will be scheduled at the Marriott.

Special sessions will include a Tuesday plenary lecture on translational research given by Sten G. Lindahl, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Karolinska Institutet and Chief of Research and Education at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. A future NEWSLETTER article will provide additional information about Dr. Lindahl.