Nearly 300 people attended the cardiology pre-course. All photos by Kevin Berne
Attendees learned about advances in therapy for hepatitis B.
Convocation saw the recognition of newly minted Fellows and Masters of ACP.
Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, MACP, outgoing president of ACP, greets members at the International
Reception.
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, MACP, delivered the keynote speech at the meeting's opening
ceremony.
A new feature of this year's meeting was PechaKucha™, short talks with speakers
facing the prospect of being gonged if they talked too long.
Female physicians met at a luncheon networking event.
Faheem Beg, MBBS, Cassidy Overpeck, MD, and Antoine Saliba, MD, all ACP Resident/Fellow
Members from the Indiana chapter, compete in Doctor's Dilemma®. The finals were
moderated by Lt. Cmdr. Brent Wallace Lacey, MD, FACP, from Naval Hospital Pensacola
in Florida.
Lt. Cmdr. Brent Wallace Lacey, MD, FACP (left) presents the ACP's Doctor's Dilemma®
trophy to (from left to right) Giovanni Ernesto Davogustto, MD, Raymundo Alain Quintana
Quezada, MD, and Uday Gajjandra Sandhu, MD of the Texas Southern chapter.
The displays at the abstract poster competition highlight medical research.
ACP Resident/Fellow Member Ruaa Y. Al-Ward, MD, presents her abstract poster to the
judges.
The Herbert S. Waxman Clinical Skills Center is a collection of activities offering
physicians hands-on learning and simulation models focusing on office-based procedures,
examination skills, and assessment and interpretation skills.
More than 7,700 people attended courses that were part of the Scientific Program.
Internal Medicine Meeting 2017 was the best attended one ever held in San Diego.
The 2017 meeting was the fourth-best attended Internal Medicine Meeting in ACP's history.