You can participate in several annual meeting symposia without leaving home!

Three symposia scheduled for September 30, 2010 have been selected for a live Web broadcast from the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. If you can't be there in person, then plan to participate via the webcast.

The following sessions will be available:

9:45 am-11:45 am (CDT)
Symposium on Mandibular Trauma
This session will provide current mandibular fracture management with specific approaches and potential for associated morbidity.

1:15 pm-3:15 pm (CDT)
Morbidity and Mortality Conference on Anesthesia
Closed case files will be reviewed for teaching experiences. A panel of practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeons will discuss the management of these cases and how other approaches may have yielded different results.

3:45 pm-5:45 pm (CDT)
Symposium on Oral Pathology CPC
Practicing oral maxillofacial surgeons are frequently asked to see patients with pathologic lesions for diagnosis and treatment. This session will discuss three common presentations of lesions. The diagnostic work up, histopathology, treatment strategies and modalities will be discussed.

Detailed session descriptions are available at aaoms.org and in the annual meeting program.

Fee: $40 per session
Credit: 2 hours CDFlCME per session

Access is easy! Just visit aaoms.org/AMwebcasts.

Recommended system requirements for participating in the webcasts:
Operating System: Windows XP/2000/98 or Mac OS 10 or above
Memory: 512MB of RA (or above)
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 (or above)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (or higher), Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (or higher), Safari 1.0 (or above), or Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 (or above)

You are invited to submit a speaker application for the Surgical Mini-Lecture and Clinic sessions to be held during the 2011 AAOMS Annual Meeting.

Surgical Clinics are ticketed, limited attendance sessions (25 attendees), two hours long, devoted to scientific or clinical content.

Surgical Mini-Lectures are ticketed, limited attendance sessions (100 attendees), two hours long, devoted to scientific or clinical content.

The deadline to submit an application is October 4, 2010 at 11:59pm. Applications and instructions are available online.

Questions? Please contact Ms. Samantha Jones or call the AAOMS Continuing Education Department at 800-822-6637.

For up-to-date information on upcoming meetings, speaker applications, and other helpful speaker tools, please visit our Speaker Information page.

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