The American Geriatrics Society - Annual Meetings Page

INTERNET CAFÉ ($15,000)
The AGS offers email stations to attendees in the Exhibit Hall. Your company or product name will appear as a screen saver and signage acknowledging your support will be provided. The Internet Café was a huge success in the past. Although we took a brief hiatus from the Internet Café at the 2009 meeting, we hope to bring it back better than ever at the 2010 meeting due to popular demand!

AGS PRODUCT THEATRES ($10,000)
Take advantage of AGS’ Product Theaters to reach our annual meeting attendees directly in a comfortable setting. We invite you to have your experts share new research findings on key products, conduct product details and demonstrations, or highlight new products, equipment, and services to an audience of geriatric health care professionals. Time slots are limited; don’t miss this opportunity to provide a unique value-added service to your customers in geriatrics! Please note: Continuing education cannot be offered for these programs.

NEW! ANNUAL MEETING E-NEWSLETTER ($5,000 per issue)
Support an issue of the NEW 2010 pre-meeting eNewsletter. The eNewsletters will be sent electronically to all AGS members, meeting pre-registrants, and past attendees. Each newsletter will offer and advertising opportunity for your organization.

JOURNAL ABSTRACT SUPPLEMENT SPONSORSHIP ($ contact for pricing)
Paper and poster presentations offer the latest findings and draw considerable attention from meeting attendees. Each year we publish research abstracts in a supplement to the April issue of the Journal of American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The supplement reaches, not only the nearly 3,000 meeting attendees, but also the 9,598 JAGS subscribers.

JOURNAL ADVERTISEMENT
Advertise in issues of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Annals of Long-Term Care, or Clinical Geriatrics. Extend your impact by reaching all AGS members plus other subscribers to our Journals. To view rates and contact information, click here or on the journal name.

EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

MEAL TIME SYMPOSIA ($35,000 educational grant + costs)
Meal time symposia are among the most highly rated sessions at our meeting, usually drawing 200+ attendees. The AGS provides continuing medical education (CME) for these symposia. If you do not have a preferred medical communications company with whom you work, the Society is pleased to provide you with pricing that includes administrative and program development services provided by the AGS staff.

NEW! PROGRAM SUMMARY with CME ($30,000)
Open to everyone the day following the conference, the program summary will be posted online for one year and offer continuing medical education (CME) credits to those who complete and submit the post-test.

PLENARY SESSIONS ($35,000 + direct costs)
These high-profile sessions feature keynote state-of-the-art addresses by nationally recognized researchers, educators, and policy makers in aging an health. Gain exposure to over 1,000 annual meeting attendees during these unopposed sessions

MEET-THE-EXPERTS SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS ($5,000)
Meet-the-expert sessions and workshops provide attendees with enriching smaller group, interactive sessions where they can discuss, review, and work “hands on” with experts on a variety of geriatrics health care topics.

REGULAR SYMPOSIA ($15,000)
The annual meeting program will feature regular symposia that address a myriad of relevant topics.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

MENTORING PROGRAM ($10,000)
Junior faculty, fellows-in-training, residents and health professional students participate in these valuable one-on-one mentoring sessions with well-known senior faculty members in geriatrics. This successful program matches trainees to mentors for discussions on research activities and funding opportunities, career development, and what it’s like to practice geriatric medicine in today’s health care environment.

Additional benefits of supporting the mentoring program: Added recognition in the advance and final meeting programs, on program registration materials, in the Fellows-in-Training Newsletter, on the AGS website and in all correspondence with trainees and mentors.

PRESIDENTIAL POSTER SESSION (call for details)
This festive occasion kicks off the annual meeting, attracting over 1,500 meeting attendees.

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP or Section Meetings ($3,500)
Take advantage of a unique opportunity to reach highly targeted audiences. Contact for a full list of AGS special interest groups and sections.

SNACK & BEVERAGE BREAKS (call for details)
Coffee, snacks or box lunches can be scheduled during unopposed poster sessions in the Exhibit Hall. These breaks are a great opportunity for your organization to gain high visibility at designated times, in an area where attendees mingle.

Foundation for Health in Aging

An EVENING with FRIENDS ($50,000 – multiple supporters welcome)
Proceeds from an Evening with Friends support awards made from the Student Researcher Fund to students who have been accepted to present at the AGS 2009 Annual Meeting. In previous years, this has been a sold-out event with over 300 meeting attendees joining together for an evening of fun and entertainment in support of a good cause. This year, Evening with Friends will be held at Disney’s Epcot Center!

Student Researcher Fund (call for details)
Your organization may also choose to provide and unrestricted grant in support of the Student Researcher Fund. All contributions to the fund will be used to support FHA Student Research Awards.

EXHIBIT

To exhibit, please click here or contact us.

For more details, please contact Caitlin Connolly at cconnolly@americangeriatrics.org or Dennise McAlpin at dmcalpin@americangeriatrics.org or by calling 212-308-1414.

Thank you.

* All prices and details are subject to change.