2027 Association of Clinical Scientists Annual Scientific Meeting in Houston, TX
The 148th Meeting of the Association will return to the Texas Medical Center in Houston for the fourth time May 8–10, 2027. Previous meetings in Houston were in 1995, 2004, and 2018. The meeting will be hosted by the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital.
“Global Medicine” will be the theme for the Thursday scientific session, and the Abraham J. Gitlitz Memorial Lecture will be delivered by noted author, pediatrician, and vaccinologist Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital. The Friday afternoon activity will most likely involve the Houston Museum of Natural Science or the Houston Zoo.
The banquet speaker will be Bryant Boutwell, Dr.P.H., Texas Medical Center historian and author of “Houston Methodist: The Hospital with a Soul.” The Saturday night musicale will feature Hopera, a performing group of local opera singers.
The members of the Program Committee for the meeting are Roger Bertholf (Chair), Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, Chris Crutchfield, Amitava Dasgupta, John Hicks, Jonathan Hoyne, Peter Hu, Awdhesh Kalia, Sarrah Lahorewala, Nina Tatevian, Neda Zarrin-Khameh, and Charles Hawker (ex officio).