2008 ASA Legislative Conference

 Key Legislative Issues  Key Issues
 2008 Tentative Agenda  Find Your Legislators Here
 

2008 Registration Information  
2008 ASA Legislative Conference
Audio of Selected Sessions

 2008 List of

Members of Congress, health legislative assistants and schedulers—for arranging Capitol Hill visits  

Legislative Conference Wrap-up
 

About the ASA Legislative Conference

The ASA Legislative Conference is scheduled for the

spring of each year at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC.  The Conference is the medical specialty of

anesthesiology’s largest meeting focusing on state and federal legislative, regulatory and political issues impacting ASA

and the specialty.  

Attendees of the Conference can expect to hear from a range of outstanding speakers discussing key

issues impacting anesthesiology.  Invited speakers typically include key health care policymakers and political leaders

from the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Administration and outside of the U.S. government.  Past conferences

have featured the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Honorable Michael Leavitt; U.S.

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY); the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman William Thomas (R-CA); and

senior officials from the White House.

Attendees will also hear policy briefings from members of the ASA lobbying staff and

physician leadership.  These briefings will prepare attendees for the “Hill Day” portion of the Conference during which

attendees conduct lobbying visits with their individual Member of Congress and Senators on key issues impacting

anesthesiology.

Registration for the Legislative Conference is conducted through each individual State Component. 

Interested anesthesiologists are encouraged to contact their component President or staff to determine how and when the

state selects its delegation to the Legislative Conference.

Please feel free to contact Manuel Bonilla in the Washington

office of the ASA at (202)289-2222 if you have any additional questions.

 2007 Legislative Conference photos