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2008 ARM Highlights
- Attendance --- 2,305
- First Timers --- 34 percent
- Members --- 67 percent
- Students --- 16 percent
- International --- 4 percent
- Speakers --- 592 or 26 percent
- Sessions --- 155 (includes 3 poster sessions and 2 plenaries)
- Balance of breakout sessions
- 52 percent peer reviewed sessions
- 20 percent theme related (invited papers and policy roundtables)
- 28 percent other sessions (methods workshops, skill and career development workshops, federal research updates and resources, and special sessions)
- Abstract Submissions --- 1,597
- Abstracts acceptance rate:
- Papers = 24 percent
- Panels = 36 percent
- Posters --- 858 presented
- Exhibitors --- 62
- PowerPoint Presentations on Web --- over 400
- Adjunct Meetings --- over 60, including 15 AcademyHealth Interest Groups and 5 Methods Seminars
- Evaluation Response --- 32 percent
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