Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology 1983

              1983 ANNUAL MEETING
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY
HOLIDAY INN - INDEPENDENCE MALL
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
MARCH 22, 1983 - POSTGRADUATE COURSE
MARCH 23, 24, 25, 1983 - SCIENTIFIC SESSION
This vIill be the first announcement for the 1983 A. S .A. Meeting
Hhich will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The hotel. is
adjacent to the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and numerous
historical places. Within 3-5 blocks is the fashionable area known
as Society Hill, with countless restaurants and specialty shops
for dining and browsing.
The postgraduate course will include a morning clinical session
and an afternoon basic science session. The topics in the morning
Ivill cover the immunology of infertility, microsurgery and male
infertility, the use of zona-free hamster eggs in the diagnosis
of male infertility, and the management of varicoceles. The
afternoon topics will cover the use of monoclonal antibodies and
hydridomas, cell culture techniques for the testis and pituitary
gland.
A State-of-the-Art lecture will be given on each day of the
s·tientific sessions. These lectures will be "Sperm 110tility and
Epididymal Storage", Michael Bedford, Ph.D., "The Role of the
H-Y Antigen in Sex Determination", Stephen Wachtel, Ph.D., and
"The Binding of Peptide Hormones To Cellular Target Tis sues II,
Ira Pasten, M. D.
In addition, a workshop is planned for Wednesday evening, March 23,
1983. A panel will cover "The Longterm Consequences of Vasectomy".
A wine and cheese party and a poster session will follow the
Horkshop. An informal get together will open the proceedings
on the evening of March 22, 1983. The banquet is scheduled for
Thursday, March 24, 1983.
The meeting will be sponsored by Cooper Medical Center, Camden,
Ne\y Jersey (A clinical campus hospital of Rutgers Medical School).
Continuing medical education credits will be certified by the
Academy of Medicine of New Jersey. An award will be given for the
best student paper by the West Michigan Reproductive Institute.
Please join us in Philadelphia in 1983. For additional information
contact:
Tu Lin, M. D. - Postgraduate Course
Chairman
Hm.Jennings Bryan Dorn Vet. Hosp.
USC School of Medicine
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 776-4000
Joel L. Marmar, H. D. -
Program Chairman
1301 N. Kings Highway
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
(609) 795-3556