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Organising a Meeting

• Introduction 
• Initiating a scientific meeting 
• Format of meetings 
• Registration and other costs 
• Meetings expenses
• Liaison with BIRAs
• Meetings venues 
• Pharmaceutical company support 
• Publicity for meetings 
• Meetings reports 
• Meetings checklist 

Initiating a scientific meeting

It is the responsibility of the Association's Committee to select a programme of scientific meetings that will attempt to cover the broad field of inflammation research with the emphases appropriate to the interests of the members. In order to allow booking of lecture halls, etc., the Committee elected by the AGM one year (e.g. Autumn 1996) is responsible for the meetings planned for the calendar year following their term of office (e.g. the 1998 programme).

While Committee members may identify areas of research warranting a meeting, and contact potential local organizers to ask them to arrange a suitable meeting, individual members of the Association are strongly encouraged to suggest ideas for meetings, to volunteer to organize or to contribute to the organization of meetings, or to suggest the names of speakers. Such suggestions should be relayed to any member of the Committee, at any time of the year.

It is helpful if at least one of the meeting organizers is a member of the academic department or institution, or the pharmaceutical company site, at which the meeting will be held, as this greatly facilitates some of the more mundane but critical tasks involved in setting up a meeting.