Sent on behalf of the Arthritis Alliance of Canada (ACC)
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Dear AAC Members,
We are delighted to invite you to register for the Arthritis Alliance of Canada (AAC) 5th Annual Meeting, October 26-27, 2017, at the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia. Please register by September 26, 2017 if you are interested in attending the meeting.
Come and meet Canada’s leading experts in arthritis care and research; specialists, health care providers, researchers, consumers, trainees, industry partners and government affiliates!
This year’s program, entitled “Change is Good: Implementing Arthritis Models of Care”, includes the following:
AAC Workshops:
- Patient Experiences and Perspectives of Inflammatory Arthritis Models of Care: Gaps, Solutions and Pushing for Implementation
- Cost Consequence Analysis of Inflammatory Arthritis Models of Care
- Change is Good: Implementing Inflammatory Arthritis Models of Care: How Do You Do It and What Does Success Look Like?
- Models of Care in Action: Implementing the OA Tool in Family Practice
- Setting up a Model of Care in Practice at the Start of Your Career
Networking Reception:
- Poster Viewing Session: Come and join us for a poster-viewing session with The Arthritis Society Trainees and AAC Arthritis Consumer Organizations!
- AAC remarks and AAC Research Awards announcement
- The Qualman-Davies Arthritis Consumer (Patient) Community Award
- The Arthritis Society Trainee Awards
The DRAFT Annual Meeting program and a flyer is attached here, for your information.
Meeting Registration
- All participants MUST register here: http://arthritisalliance.ca/conference2017/. Please note that the AAC working committees are still working on their workshop programs and a finalized program will be available in a week.
Accommodation
§ AAC team has secured a room block for their members and The Arthritis Society trainees to attend the Trainee Workshop Program, at a rate of $189/night at Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, for the nights of Wednesday, October 25th and Thursday, October 26th. Please note that you will be sharing a room with one of your colleagues.
This information is also available on the registration page.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver next month!
Sincerely,
Sakina Rizvi
Research Assistant
The Arthritis Society
393 University Avenue, Suite 1700, Toronto, ON. M5G 1E6
Office: 416.979.7228 x 3552
Fax: 416.979.7130
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