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Just outside your door at the Monterey Beach Hotel
sunset from the balcony
Faculty and Fellows: Please contact your respective societies for instructions…DO NOT REGISTER on the student and resident site, fees are non-refundable.)
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Congratulations on your invitation to present at the Western Regional Meetings in Carmel/Monterey. We are delighted to offer the convenience of on-line registration again this year. All students and residents must pre-register for the conference in order to participate. Have your credit card handy. You will receive an instant, printable receipt. All of the activities listed where a meal is mentioned are included in your registration fee. The Journal of Investigative Medicine is included in your registration fee. Remember to pick one up when you check in with us at the Sunset Center in Carmel.
Note: To the 24 of you who purchsed the JIM when you registered, look for a $25 refund on your credit card statement.
WSMRF and RESIDENTS' FORUM REGISTRATION BEGINS BY CLICKING HERE 2010 MEETING REGISTRATION
UPLOAD YOUR PowerPoint Presentation
At last, here is a cut and paste from the email instructions you should have all received from MedPubInc.
Presentations should be prepared in PowerPoint and will be 15 minutes in duration (10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions).
Talks need to be uploaded by January 19, 2010. Upload your PowerPoint presentation by going to http://www.meetingtomorrow.com/afmr-upload.html and click on Browse and then Upload button. No editing is permitted after January 19.
Be sure to bring your presentation with you on a CD-Rom, DVD data, memory stick / thumb drive.
Important note from Meeting Tomorrow: If your presentation is larger than 10MB, the upload form may not work correctly. If you do not receive a confirmation page, please go to YouSendIt.com to e-mail your presentation (up to 100MB). |
If you need to package videos (or other embedded items) that are a part of their Power Point presentations, compile them all into a .ZIP file so that they're all bundled together. Then upload that single .ZIP file on the upload page. If you do not have a program to do so, it's recommend that you download a free 45-day trial of WinZip, available at this link for a safe
download: http://download.cnet.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html
The student headquarters hotel is the Monterey Beach Hotel. Call (800) 242-8627 ext. 430, ASK FOR LIZ BALA (Reservations Manager), (831) 394-332, or click www.montereybeachresort.com , select GROUP RESERVATIONS, using "WSMRF2010" in all instances to receive the group rate of $110 per room plus applicable taxes for single or double occupancy. Add an additional $15 for a 3rd person per room. To guarantee a room, ALL reservations MUST be received by January 4, 2010. You may also email Liz Bala directly at Liz@montereybeachresort.com. Again, you must mention "WSMRF2010" to receive the discounted rate. The earlier you make a reservation and ask for an ocean-side room, the more likely you are to get one.
If you miss the Jan 4 deadline, There is a small block of rooms available at $135 per night at the Embassy Suites Hotel (very close to the Monterey Beach Hotel). This includes a breakfast buffet each day, free shuttle to/from the Monterey Airport (MRY) and to the Monterey Beach Hotel. YOU MUST CALL Serena (831) 241-9116 and mention Western Student Medical Reseach Forum to get this rate.
If you plan to fly to the meeting, you may wish to check out www.studentuniverse.com for deeply discounted airfares. Ticket purchases on this site are limited to students (residents included), and faculty. The airport code for Monterey is MRY. The airport code for San Jose is SJC. For those of you who will fly into San Jose, it takes about 1 1/2 hours to make the drive to Monterey. Here is a link to a reasonable shuttle service and their schedules http://www.montereyairbus.com/. (The charge is approximately $35 each way and reservations are strongly suggested.) For those of you plan to drive, parking at the Monterey Beach Hotel is free with validation.
Taxis
Carmel: (831) 626-3333
Monterey (831) 375-3155 or (831) 646-8294
The following is a list of conference activities that you are encouraged to attend:
THURSDAY
Joint Plenary Sessions I and II Thursday January 28th 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:45-4:45 p.m., respectively, held in Carmel at the Pacific Repertory Theater, Golden Bough. All participating societies. (Great place to meet faculty from all sponsoring medical societies and hear the best of the best presentations of the Western Meeting.) WSMRF check in will be set up here from 2-5 p.m. on Thursday.
Additionally, the Western Association of Physicians invites interested students and residents to learn about "Evolutionary Pathobiology of Atherosclerosis (Thrombosis, Inflammation and Lipids)" from 2-5 PM on Wednesday, January 27th at the Sunset Center – Carpenter Hall.
FRIDAY
You are invited to select one breakfast in our "Breakfast with the Investigator Series" on Friday, OR Saturday morning. There are four topics each day from which you may select the one you will attend. Please select only one of them on Friday, OR Saturday (when prompted in the registration process below). Seating for each of the eight options is limited to fifteen students or residents only.
WSMRF check in will be set up in the Entry Lobby at the Sunset Center from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Friday.
"Posters, Pizza, and Beer Session," featuring 20 student subspecialty award-winning posters. This will be held on Thursday evening January 28th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Monterey Beach Hotel, La Grande Room. Many faculty members from the various participating medical societies also attend this event. Your guests are welcome to attend this activity at no additional charge.
SATURDAY
WSMRF check in will be set up in the Entry Lobby at the Sunset Center from 8a.m.- 12 p.m. on Saturday.
The Tenth Annual Residents' Luncheon chaired by Dr. Jacob Hogue. Residents will host a Residency Application Panel for Medical Students, Saturday, January 30th, 12:00- 2:30 p.m., Carpenter Hall, Sunset Center in Carmel. Students will have the rare opportunity to meet current residents in the Western Region and get answers to those questions you all have. It is a great pleasure to welcome Dr. Bruce Blumblerg, Director of Graduate Medical Education for Northern California Kaiser Permanente and the Co-Chief of Genetics at the Oakland KP Medical Center, as our luncheon keynote speaker.
Student Awards Banquet Saturday January 30th 6:30-9:00 p.m., Points Ballroom, Monterey Beach Hotel. We are honored to have Dr. Louis Staudt deliver our keynote address. Dr. Staudt is the Head of , Molecular Biology of Lymphoid Malignancies Section and Deputy Branch Chief at the National Cancer Institute. (Please click Dr. Louis Staudt for his biography.)
There will be free shuttle service to/from the Monterey Beach Hotel to the Sunset Center in Carmel. Click on the 2010 Shuttle Schedule icon at the top of this page.
To help you get your bearings, here is a simple map of down town Carmel-by-the Sea. (Please note that Carmel is a small, quaint seaside town. There are no addresses on houses, buildings, or street signs and they like it that way.) Click on map.
We look forward to meeting all of you at the end of January and wish you a peaceful and joyous holiday season.
Fran Kissel and Marcie Buckner, WSMRF Program Co-Directors