Society for Technology in Anesthesia

1997 Annual Meeting Calendar       Fort Lauderdale, Florida

This page was begun on January 8, 1997.  Further details to follow.  

For additions /corrections to this page, email gordon@anest4.anest.ufl.edu.  Thanks.

NOTE:  Extra hotel rooms are available at:  Jolly Roger Sheraton, 1140 Seabreeze, 954 524 5551.  

Tuesday January 14, 1997

Board of Directors Housekeeping Dinner:  7:00 p.m., Hotel restaurant

Wednesday January 15, 1997

Exhibit Information

• Drayage company setup:  8:00-12:00
• Vendor setup:  12:00-5:00 pm
• Scientific Exhibits and posters can be set up afternoon or early evening, last chance tomorrow morning BEFORE 8:00 a.m.

Board Meetings (Committee Chairs invited)

• Board of Directors Meeting in 2nd Floor Board Room
• Continental Breakfast:  7:30 a.m.
• Board of Directors meeting:  8:00 a.m.

Break-out for meeting with hotel administration:  10:30 a.m.

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Board of Directors meeting (resumed):  

• Adjourned:  3:00 p.m.
• Voting Board meeting:  3:00-4:00 p.m.

6:30-8:30:  Reception:  Exhibit Hall  Be sure to be there!

7:00:  Workshop Team meeting:  Jane Fitch to moderate, Grand Ballroom C

Thursday January 16, 1997  1st day of meeting

7:00 am:  Continental Breakfast

7:00-12:30:  Exhibits Open

8:00-8:10:  Opening Remarks

• Paul Barash, Program Chairman
• Allen K. Ream, President
• Jan Ehrenwerth, President-Elect

8:15 AM  The Engines of Or Ingenuity:  The Process of Invention

• Moderator Jerry Calkins
• Big Brother's Concerns / Partnering with Industry, John B. Leslie MD
• The Route from Ideas to Products, Warren Jewett, Sc.D.
• Let me tell you about my invention...  Charles T. Joyner JD
• I've got this great idea...now what do I do?  Scott Augustine MD
• Business and the Inventive Muse, John Leinhard Ph.D.

10:45:  Coffee Break at Exhibits

11:45 Create a CD-ROM, Tom Engel MD & Keith Ruskin MD

11:45  Scientific Papers, David Wong PharmD, Ph.D.

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Workshop #1:  Do you have your MBA?

3:00 Coffee Break at Exhibits

3:30-5:00 Create a CD-ROM, Tom Engel MD & Keith Ruskin MD

3:30-5:00 Scientific Papers, David Wong, Pharm.D., Ph.D.

Evening committee meetings:

• 6:30  STA Electronic Data Management Committee.  Gordon Gibby  MD moderating.  Open to anyone to join.  Meet in hotel lobby; restaurant to be determined.
• 6:30  JCM Editorial Board Working Dinner:  Hotel restaurant

Friday January 17, 1997  Second day of meeting

Breakfast Committee Meetings:

• STA Planning Committee Meeting:  7:10 AM in Grand Ballroom C.  Discuss upcoming meetings in back of room.  Alan Grogono MD.

7:00 Continenetal Breakfast (Exhibitor area)

7:00 - 12:30  Exhibit area open

8:00 Standards, Promises and Problems

• JS Gravenstein MD, moderator
• Why are strandards introduced?  Peter Carstensen, PhD
• What impact do standards have on product liability?  Paul Stolzer Esq.
• Who introduces standards?  
• What effects do standards have?  Allen Ream MD

10:00 Coffee Break at Exhibits

10:30 Workshop #2:  Dr. Kessler is on the phone...

12:30 Lunch / STA Annual Business Meeting

2:00 FIELD TRIPS -- more specific details to follow

• Bertram Yacht Factory
• Heico Jet Avion
• National Hurricane Center

6:30 - 11 PM  Dinner Cruise on the Paddlewheel Queen along the Intercoastal Waterway

Saturday January 18, 1997  Final day of meeting

Exhibit breakdown:  10:30 a.m.

7:00 Continental Breakfast

7:00 - 10:30 Exhibits open (breakdown at 10:30 AM)

8:00 Technodeath:  The Dark Side of Technology

• Alan W. Grogono MD, Moderator
• Technology and Dying, John Leinhard, Ph.D.
• High Tech Death, Dharles Wetli, MD

10:00 Coffee Break at exhibits

10:30 Workshop #2:  The envelope pelease...

12:00 Adjournment