Report of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, TORONTO – JUNE 2-5, 2007

However, the overall approach for ENDO this year will break with recent tradition by moving away from a central meeting theme and offering a broader array of topics for attendees. Among other innovative features of ENDO 07 are: “The Year In” presentations, which will review important articles published over the preceding 12 months; Endocrine Debates, which will offer two sides of compelling subjects with audience participation in the form of electronic voting; an expanded poster session program, adding a fourth day (totaling 2369 posters); conversations with basic researchers, which are designed to introduce basic science researchers to leaders in their field. These new features complement a strong slate of established programs, such as 16 plenary presentations, Out-of-the Box Lectures, New Technology Lectures, a greatly expanded Meet the Professor program (92 sessions), 77 symposia (3 speakers each) divided in basic, basic/clinical, translational and clinical, Oral Presentations (total 335) and other educational sessions. Moreover, the Exhibit Floor offered approximately 200 booths with diverse materials of interest for more than 8800 attendees. The web site of the Endocrine Society is “www.endo-society.org“.