The Committee is trying to working with all APS section and committee chairs, and sectional program committee representatives to ask them to consider summer conference planning on their agenda and include announcements in their sectional newsletters.
I have spoken with several individuals from other societies about the possibility of cross-Society conferences. Both the US and British Microcirculatory societies have expressed some interest in the possibility of a joint program.
The Committee has been contacted by Wolfgang Kuebler, chair of the Respiration Section, regarding the possibility of having a joint conference with the Respiration Section, the Cardiovascular Section and the Microcirculatory Society. The Committee continues to discuss this possibility. Barbara Goodman, chair of the Teaching Section, has also contacted the Committee regarding a Teaching Section task force working on development of a recurring conference on professional development. The Committee is also discussing this idea.
The following are the upcoming conferences.
Physiology of Cardiovascular Disease: Gender Disparities
October 12-14, 2011
University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
2012 APS Intersociety Meeting: Integrative Biology of Exercise
October 10-13, 2012
Westiminster, Colorado