Individual Session Information
Information for Bring Your Own Patient Session Speakers:
What is a Bring Your Own Patient Session?
Delegates will have the opportunity to submit cases from their own practices for discussion. The session leaders will collect all the submitted cases and select three to five cases for discussion. It is hoped that this format will personalize the meeting for the delegates.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You will also be responsible for reviewing the submitted cases and selecting three to five cases for discussion. You are also responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts, and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, students/ trainees and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You will be presenting case studies and leading discussions with the group. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Danielle Krenz at (414) 272-6071 or dkrenz@aaaai.org
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Information for Course Moderators and Speakers
What is a Course?
A course is designed as a teaching instrument to begin or refresh knowledge of the broad area of allergy and immunology. A course covers fundamental subject matter not covered in symposia, workshops or seminars, and it prepares the audience to be better able to participate in these other learning experiences.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You are also responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements and handouts is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Krista Perkins at (414) 272-6071 or kperkins@aaaai.org
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Information for Dinner Symposium Moderators and Speakers
What is a Dinner Symposium?
Dinner symposia are didactic sessions that are programmed by the AAAAI and funded by industry sponsors. Attendance is limited to 300 attendees per session. These sessions begin with a 30 minute dinner, followed by 90 minutes of education. Handout books will be distributed to audience members at dinner symposia.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance for the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Although handouts will be available for attendees at dinner symposia, making these materials available before the meeting is helpful for Annual Meeting delegates. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Krista Perkins at (414) 272-6071 or kperkins@aaaai.org.
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Information for Interest Section Forum Moderators and Speakers
What is an Interest Section Forum?
Each Interest Section has a two-hour activity on Sunday that will include education and Interest Section Business.
Interest Sections are as follows:
ADT (Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment)
BCI (Basic and Clinical Immunology)
EORD (Environmental and Occupational Respiratory Diseases)
FADDA (Food allergy, Anaphylaxis, Dermatology and Drug Allergy)
HCEDQ (Health Care Education, Delivery and Quality)
MAAI (Mechanisms of Asthma and Allergic Inflammation)
RSOD (Rhinitis, Sinusitis and Ocular Diseases)
As moderator, you are responsible for...
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You are also responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements and handouts is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time, and to moderate any panel or Q&A discussion that your session includes.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Krista Perkins at (414) 272-6071 or kperkins@aaaai.org.
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Information for Plenary Session Speakers:
What is a Plenary Session?
The premier educational sessions of the meeting; topics are presented in didactic format to the Annual Meeting attendance as a whole.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives and that there is a minimum of overlapping information within the presentations. You will also be responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts, and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Danielle Krenz at (414) 272-6071 or dkrenz@aaaai.org.
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Information for Pro/Con Debate Moderators and Speakers:
What is a Pro/Con Debate?
A one-hour session in which two debaters provide opposing views on a controversial topic. The moderator gives a 5 minute introduction to the topic and explains why it is controversial. Each debater will then have 15 minutes to present his or her view. At that point, the moderator will announce that each debater has 5 minutes for rebuttal. The remaining 10-15 minutes of the session will be reserved for questions from the audience.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You will also be responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts, and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, students/trainees and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias.
Attendance for the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Erick Hage at (414) 272-6071 or ehage@aaaai.org.
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Information for Seminar Discussion Leaders
What is a Seminar?
Seminars are discussion-based sessions in which presenters lead a small group of participants in a discussion about a defined topic. In order to facilitate an atmosphere that is conducive to discussion, the Seminars Subcommittee has generated a list of guidelines for presenters to follow:
- 1. Do not plan your session around any piece of audio/visual equipment. Only a flipchart will be provided. At the start of your session, ask participants for questions they have about your topic. Write those questions down on the flipchart and use it as your agenda.
- Encourage participation by all. Do not let one participant do all the talking.
- Prepare a handout that lists references for the important literature related to your session's topic.
- Participants can be contacted prior to the meeting to determine their learning needs so that the topics can be customized accordingly. Contact the Seminars Subcommittee staff liaison if you wish to contact the participants.
- If there is a co-presenter, be sure to keep in communication with him or her prior to the session.
- Consider using relevant cases as a way to spark discussion.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias.
Attendance for the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please check in at the speaker resource room on-site - so that we will know you have arrived and can give you your speaker packet. We ask that you check-in 24 hours prior to your talk.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Erick Hage at (414) 272-6071 or ehage@aaaai.org.
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Information for State-of-the-Art Session Moderators and Speakers
What is a State-of-the-Art Session?
Each Interest Section hosts a one-hour session on Saturday to review a topic that is of broad interest to members of the Interest Section.
Interest Sections are as follows:
ADT (Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment)
BCI (Basic and Clinical Immunology)
EORD (Environmental and Occupational Respiratory Diseases)
FADDA (Food allergy, Anaphylaxis, Dermatology and Drug Allergy)
HCEDQ (Health Care Education, Delivery and Quality)
MAAI (Mechanisms of Asthma and Allergic Inflammation)
RSOD (Rhinitis, Sinusitis and Ocular Diseases)
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You are also responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements and handouts is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Krista Perkins at (414) 272-6071 or kperkins@aaaai.org.
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Information for Symposium Moderators and Speakers
What is a Symposium?
Symposia are didactic in nature, with limited time reserved for questions and answers. There will be an LCD projector available for every symposia presenter.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias
Attendance for the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all speakers will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
If you have further questions, please contact Erick Hage at (414) 272-6071 or ehage@aaaai.org
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Information for Workshop Speakers, Panelists and Instructors
What is a Workshop?
Every workshop is required to incorporate an element of interactivity. As a result, there are no "didactic" or lecture style workshops. Each session should fall under one of these categories of interactive formats:
Q&A: A moderator and up to three speakers will speak for up to 15 minutes each. Since all workshops are 75 minutes in length, this will allow the moderator to conduct a 30-minute question and answer segment at the end of the session with questions from the audience.
Panel Discussion: A moderator and up to three panelists. The panelists do not give presentations; instead, the moderator asks them probing questions in a series of pre-defined topics and allows them to respond in turn. Once each panelist has addressed each question, the moderator will ask a person from the audience to provide commentary as well.
Audience Response: A moderator and up to three speakers, each of whom will offer a presentation constructed solely of clinical case situations. Each case will be presented to the audience, who will respond via audience response keypads, and the results will be shown on the screen. The speaker will then tailor his or her comments depending on those results. Allowing five minutes for each case will mean each speaker can present six cases.
Hands-On: Sessions in which participants have the opportunity to actively manipulate devices or otherwise practice procedures in a supervised setting.
Pro/Con Debate: Two presenters provide opposing views on a controversial topic.
As moderator, you are responsible for…
Working with confirmed speakers to develop specific session content. Once they are all confirmed, you will be notified via e-mail. You should contact the speakers well before the meeting to ensure that their presentations fit the learning objectives. You will also be responsible for reviewing the submitted cases and selecting three to five cases for discussion. You are also responsible for verifying that the session content is free of commercial bias. Your staff liaison can organize a conference call for the session participants if you would like.
Assisting the staff liaison assigned to your session with the collection of necessary materials from your speakers. The timely collection of disclosure statements, handouts, and audio-visual presentations is essential to the overall success of your session and your assistance in this area is greatly appreciated.
Please note: Delegates will be required to print their handouts before arriving at the Annual Meeting. Please refer to the "General Speaker Information" page for the details of the handouts submission process. Timely submission of handouts by all presenters will allow for a positive meeting experience by all attendees.
On-site management of your session. It will be your job to make introductory announcements, to introduce your speakers, and to ensure that they and your session begin and end on time.
As a speaker, please note…
Panelists do NOT need to provide individual handouts. The session moderator will be providing one handout containing session overview and topics.
If you are a speaker participating in a session utilizing the Audience Response System, you will be asked to submit several cases or questions to which the audience will respond via keypads. Instructions for submission will be forthcoming.
If you have further questions, please contact Danielle Krenz at (414) 272-6071 or dkrenz@aaaai.org.
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