International Conference Planning Committee

Responsibilities

• Executes the International Conference, including the creation of conference agenda and structure including determining session topic selection, recruitment of speakers and moderators, scheduling of sessions, strategic planning of educational content, and conference structure (including any pre-meeting or post-meeting workshops).
• Reviews conference evaluation feedback to help create strategy for the following year’s International Conference.
• Administers the Call for Abstracts and review & select abstracts for poster or oral presentations.

Committee Resources

Meeting Cadence

The International Conference Planning Committee meets regularly for approximately nine months leading up to the International Conference in March.

Get Involved

Committee members are appointed by the committee co-chairs. For more information on this committee or to submit a question for the committee, please email AmSECT at amsect@amsect.org.

Committee Members

• Dafne Andrea Chianella, Co-Chair, CCP, FPP
• Donald S. Likosky, Co-Chair, PhD
• Mark Martin, Co-Chair, CCP
• Ed Harman, MS, CCP, FPP, MBA
• Juan Blanco Morillo, PhD
• Kim De La Cruz, CCP
• Karim Jabr, CCP, LP, CSSBB 
• Susana Stripling, MPS, CCP, LP
• Donald Likosky, PhD
• Lars Saemann, PhD
• David Fitzgerald, DHA, MPH, CCP
• Dorothy Holt, Board Advocate BS, CCP, FPP
• Sarah Ewald, Executive Director (Staff)
• Houa Vang, Event Manager (Staff)
• Kelsey Olson, Event Coordinator (Staff)
• Blake Finger, Director of Sales (Staff)