AACE 2023 annual meeting to feature new session formats, focus on collaboration
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Key takeaways:
- The AACE 2023 annual meeting will take place from May 4 to May 6 at the Seattle Convention Center Summit building.
- This year’s meeting will feature new participant-centered session formats.
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology 2023 annual meeting kicks off Thursday with a number of new session formats designed to promote conversation and encourage participation from attendees.
This year’s AACE annual meeting will take place from Thursday to Saturday at the Seattle Convention Center Summit building. The conference will have a different feel than in years past, with several unique session formats that are more focused on audience participation and collaboration, according to Adriana G. Ioachimescu, MD, PhD, FACE, chair of the AACE annual meeting scientific committee and professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and molecular medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin.
“Change in how information is delivered has happened across multiple domains the past decade, including medical education,” Ioachimescu told Healio. “Modern pedagogy techniques are supported by research that shows they are more effective and increase learner engagement and satisfaction. Last year, after our San Diego meeting, AACE worked with 360 Live Media to build a strategic event framework centered on learner engagement for the whole endocrine team.”
This year’s program features 3 days of in-person educational programming that includes a variety of session types. In addition to the opening keynote address, three plenary talks and dozens of posters and oral abstract presentations, attendees have an opportunity to partake in new participant-centered learning opportunities, such as the Flipped Classroom sessions. In the Flipped Classroom, attendees will be asked to watch a brief video lecture prior to the meeting. The on-site session focuses on active learning, including group discussions, project-based or problem-based assignments and other engaging exercises.
“The Flipped Classroom is not unfamiliar to us in medical education,” Archana R. Sadhu, MD, FACE, member of the AACE board of directors and board of trustees, chair-elect of the annual meeting program committee, system director for the diabetes program and director of transplant endocrinology at Houston Methodist Hospital, assistant clinical professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and adjunct assistant professor at Texas A&M Health Sciences, told Healio. “A lot more of it is being done in medical school. The material is given ahead of time, the learner is expected to review it and then come to the session with the expert who is going go into a deep dive and offer the opportunity to ask questions. This also allows learners who are at different paces to be prepared and not just try to take all of the material in during that one time slot.”
This year’s meeting also features a group of sessions in a space known as the AACE Talk Show. The talk show sessions include a group of experts who discuss a specific topic, share their perspectives, experiences and insights and respond to questions from the audience.
In another group of sessions, Case-based Conversations, an expert presents attendees with a case study that reflects a real-world situation. Attendees work through the case study with the presenter providing guidance along the way.
“We want this [meeting] to be very interactive and for there to be an exchange of ideas and questions to the experts who are going to speak to the topic, as well as within the audience, because every endocrine team member has different experiences, different skill levels and different types of questions,” Sadhu, who is also an Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member, said.
In addition, several popular session formats return to this year’s conference, including year-in-review sessions for five disease-state networks, a diabetes technology skills workshop and a thyroid ultrasound workshop.
This year’s meeting features several plenary talks, including the following:
On Thursday at 8:30 a.m. PST, the conference kicks off with the keynote address from Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, former U.S. surgeon general and founder and CEO of the Gulf States Health Policy Center in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Benjamin’s keynote focuses on ways to address social determinants of health in practice.
At 3:30 p.m. PST on Thursday, Richard Auchus, MD, PhD, FACE, professor of internal medicine in the division of metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Michigan, presents Advances in Management of the Adrenal Gland Hypertension. Auchus will discuss how to interpret screening and testing for primary aldosteronism, ways to identify people who will benefit from further evaluation and how to characterize low-renin mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist-responsive hypertension.
On Friday at 8:30 a.m. PST, Irl Hirsch, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Washington, reviews the history of insulin and the controversy of glucose control and complications in The Past, Present and Future of Insulin Therapy (And Related Controversies). The session includes a discussion of the AACE Consensus Statement: Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm – 2023 Update.
At 2 p.m. PST on Friday, Elizabeth N. Pearce, MD, MSc, FACE, professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, presents Endocrine Disruptors and Thyroid Health, a session dedicated to environmental thyroid disruption, which people are most vulnerable to these disruptors and ways to minimize or mitigate disruption.
“In Seattle, AACE will bring the most relevant clinical advances in endocrinology and pilot new information delivery formats,” Ioachimescu said. “On a personal level, I’m counting the days until I see colleagues and friends from other institutions. I also want to make new connections. The AACE annual meeting is the environment for participants to do that.
Healio will provide coverage live from AACE 2023, including reports on the sessions, on-site video interviews and more. For more information on the AACE agenda and registration, visit https://pro.aace.com/events/2023/annual-meeting.
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