Whether you’re on site or you couldn’t make it to San Diego this year, the electronic ASA Daily offers the news and information you need to stay informed on what’s happening at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2015 annual meeting.

During the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2015 annual meeting, ASA members will have a unique opportunity to take action to protect safe VA care – the first time members have been offered the opportunity to participate in a top advocacy initiative on site. As leaders in patient safety, ASA members will be asked to act on behalf of their patients and specialty by preparing comments in anticipation of the release of the proposed VHA Nursing Handbook.

J.P. Abenstein, M.S.E.E., M.D., 2015 ASA President, talked with the ASA Daily News about what he learned from his term, how the ACA and MACRA will affect health care, and where he sees the specialty headed in a rapidly changing health care system.

At the ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2015 annual meeting this year, you won’t have to travel far to make a world of difference to ASA’s Charitable Foundation and its global humanitarian outreach efforts.

The largest anesthesia-related educational event in the world is going to feel pretty small when you’re in the new and improved ASA Connection Center. With so many sessions and events demanding your time, we’ve redesigned the Connection Center so you can maximize your experience with the minimum amount of time and effort.

They say you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. During exhibit hall hours, you’ll have the opportunity to take a big step toward a good first impression by having a professional portrait taken for free at Booth #4842 in the Connection Center.

A quality education isn’t supposed to be easy, but ASA’s new Self-Study Station program takes a lot of the inconvenience out of traditional learning formats and lets you focus on what matters most: advancing your knowledge.

Don’t know what the ABA MOCA Minute™ is? If you can spare an hour on Sunday afternoon, you’ll learn that and so much more at two American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) open forums in Hall H.

Anesthesiology, the publication with the highest impact factor among all anesthesiology journals (5.879), has a jam-packed agenda worthy of its reputation at the ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2015 annual meeting.

ASA continues to strengthen its relationships with its affiliated subspecialties, as evidenced by the robust presence of these organizations assembled at the Affiliated Subspecialty Society Pavilion – which returns for its second straight year.