ASFNR 2020 Conference Announcement

 

After much deliberation, the executive committee of the ASFNR has decided to cancel the 2020 ASFNR conference due to uncertainties due to COVID-19.  As you know, many of our members have been significantly affected by the pandemics and our heart goes out to them along with our best wishes. Some of our members’ healthcare organizations have recently extended their travel bans to the end of the year.  Regardless of the course of the pandemic over the next several months, concern over a second wave in the fall remains strong, and we believe travel to the meeting would be impacted for both our attendees and our sponsors.

 

The leadership feels that there is great value in our coming together in person to connect, learn, collaborate, and form and strengthen the strong bonds that join us as a society, and that this experience could simply not be replicated using a virtual format.  We were successful in negotiating with the hotel to reschedule our booking and are happy to announce that ASFNR 2021 will occur between September 18-21, 2021 at the ElDorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Please save these dates on your calendar now!  The planning committee will continue their fantastic work putting together an extra special ASFNR in-person meeting!

 

In the meantime and in order to continue our established tradition of offering excellent education material to our members, the ASFNR has committed to a series of live, on-line webinars titled “ASFNR Presents…” that will cover a range of topics of interest to the membership.  The schedule and organizers are listed below.  While this can in no way replace the value of the ASFNR meeting, we hope that is serves as a way of connecting to the society as we negotiate these very challenging times and overcome this pandemic.

 

Please all stay well and healthy!

 

Greg Zaharchuk

President Elect, ASFNR