PAS
Educational/Program Grants
The Pediatric Academic
Societies encourage and invite support
for the State of the Art Plenary, Topic Symposia, Hot
Topics,
Mini Courses, Educational Workshops and APA Special Interest
Groups.
The PAS Annual Meeting provides continuing
medical education (CME) for the basic and clinician
researcher and the teaching and general practitioner
community. Sponsorship is being sought to support CME
activities and special events during the meeting. Sponsors
of CME activities can receive session exclusivity or partial
sponsorship. Education program topics and session content
organized for this year will be posted on this website in a daily
format and by subspecialty/track in the near future.
State of the Art
Science
These programs are the
highlight sessions for the PAS Annual Meeting. Sponsorship
recognition includes signage on-site and recognition in the
printed programs.
- State of the Art Plenary are
a means of updating and solidifying understanding
interdisciplinary areas of pediatric medicine. These
sessions are also commonly forums for the
presentation of new developments and seminal advances in
biomedical research.
The focus of these sessions, which are spread
throughout the meeting, will be on bench to bedside
translations and the application of new science.
They consist of invited lectures from
international leaders in the field and are designed to
be of interest to a very broad range of attendees.
($12,000 exclusive; $3,000 partial)
- Topic
Symposia are programs
that address issues and controversies around topics of
interest to a particular audience.
As such, they are generally focused on a more
specific topic than the State of the Art Plenary and
allow time for active audience discussion.
Topic Symposium run concurrent with original
science platform sessions, poster symposium and
workshops. ($12,000
exclusive; $3,000 partial)
- Hot
Topics focus
on areas of rapid clinical discovery and excitement and
should address “Hot Topics”, controversial issues
and seek to stimulate new areas of research or
interactions for participants. Time
is scheduled for active audience participation. ($6,000
exclusive; $3,000 partial)
- Mini Courses are
programs that address important, relevant topics of
interest to all attendees from trainees to junior
faculty to more senior faculty.
Usually targeted to new, broad-based clinical
strategies or techniques, which are not specific for any
specific discipline or subset of participants.
The emphasis is on practical and useful
information for the practicing physician or provider of
care. These programs are designed to be highly
interactive. ($6,000
exclusive; $3,000 partial)
Educational
Workshops — $3,000.00 per session; $30,000 full
sponsorship (80 topics)
Workshops are selected using a peer review process; the format of
the workshops usually includes a combination of didactic
presentations, interactive discussions, and hands-on
techniques depending on the topic presented. Some workshops
address practical topics of concern for trainees and junior
scholars, while others focus on issues for the more senior
practitioner, investigator or academic leader.
Attendance is limited to make the sessions highly
interactive, seating is first come, first served.
APA Special Interest Groups — $3,000.00
per session
APA
Special Interest Groups are informal sessions organized
around specific areas of interest to academic and community
pediatricians. Each session ranges in format from informal discussions to
guest speakers to research presentations.
Promotional
Sponsorship Opportunities
Abstracts
on DiskTM
$50,000
(Tentatively funded)
Scientific abstracts and other program details from the PAS
Annual Meeting on CD ROM.
The sponsor is recognized on the disk, on-site at the
meeting, in all mentions of the Abstracts on DiskTM
in dated materials and in the program.
Calling
Cards: $12,000
Telephone calling cards can be provided to
attendees to call home during their stay in San Francisco.
The sponsor is recognized on the card, in the
message, in printed materials and in the program.
Sponsor can distribute these at their booth.
Child
Care Service: $12,000
Child Care for PAS attendees can be
sponsored. The
sponsor is recognized on-site at the meeting, in printed
materials and in the program.
Internet
Cafe
Exclusive: $10,000
The PAS Annual Meeting offers an
electronic message center which provides an easy way for the
4,000-5,000 attendees and exhibitors to leave and retrieve
messages from other attendees.
The sponsor is recognized on signage posted on-site
at the message center, in all mentions of the Message Center
in dated materials and in the program.
Tote Bags Exclusive: $20,000
Registration bags are given to PAS
registrants. The
meeting logo and name appears on the bag. The sponsor may
provide one piece of printed material to include in each
bag. (Expense would be greater if complicated or
multi-colored design is required).
Reception
Lounges: $8,000
per lounge per day
Be the first to sponsor one or all three
daily Reception Lounges.
Sponsorship for each lounge is $8,000 per lounge, per
exhibit session. Exclusive
sponsorship for each day (3 lounges) is $24,000 and includes
a premier booth location adjacent to a reception station.
The Opening Reception on Saturday will be sponsored
by the PAS and is not available for sponsorship.
Massage Station
Exclusive:
$10,000
We are offering exclusive sponsorship of the
extremely popular Seated Massage Station at the upcoming
2004 PAS Annual Meeting. Team certified, professional massage therapists wearing the
sponsor’s logo apparel will be located in the exhibit hall
during all show hours.
If you have seen this sponsorship in action at one of
hundreds of conferences each year, you know how incredibly
popular it is and the tremendous amount of traffic it will
bring. The
sponsor is recognized on the disk, on-site at the meeting,
in all mentions of the Seated Massage Station in dated
materials and in the program.
Meeting
Shuttle Service Exclusive:
$25,000
The PAS will provide shuttle buses to
transport attendees between meeting hotels and the
convention center. The
shuttle buses provide sponsors with an opportunity for
exposure on signs displayed on the bus, in all mentions of
the shuttle in dated materials and schedules and in the
program.
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For more information on
any or all the
2004 sponsorship opportunities, contact:
Kathy Cannon, PAS Associate Meeting Director at 281-419-0052 or by email
to kathyc@aps-spr.org.
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