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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!


To register for the Dysphagia Research Society 20th Annual Meeting and Post-Graduate Course, click here.  Sunday, January 15, 2012, is the deadline for early-bird registration. After this date, registration fees will increase, as indicated on the registration website.

Meeting Highlights

  • Post Graduate Course on March 7th entitled, Stretching the Limits: Plasticity and Neural Control of Swallowing
  • Panel and plenary sessions on the theme of neuroplasticity during the Annual Meeting
  • Poster viewing sessions and a new poster plenary session
  • Dodds-Donner lecture on the past, present and future of the DRS
  • Meet the Mentors Breakfast covering several preset research topics
  • Technical Session on High Resolution Manometry and Technical Symposium by Sierra Scientific Instruments – A Given Imaging Company and Mui Scientific (limit 15 attendees) 
  • Resident/Trainee Breakfast Forum on Translating Research into Practice
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    View the 20th Annual Meeting and Post-Graduate Course Brochure by clicking here.
     
    Reserve your room now for the Annual Meeting now at The Ritz-Carlton
    Reservations may be made conveniently online by clicking here and using the group code DRSDRSA.  You can also make a reservation by phone at 1-800-542-8680.  When making reservations over the phone, you must say you are affiliated with the "DRS Annual Scientific Meeting" in order to receive the discounted room rate.  Please note that the Ritz-Carlton is currently sold out of Deluxe Rooms for the evening of March 6th.  For accommodation options, please contact the DRS Meetings Department at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 713-965-0566.   Reservations for other conference dates must be received by Febrary 15, 2012 in order to guarantee rate availability. 
    Deluxe Single/Double Room Rate   $225.00 CAD*
    *Rate does not include 13% HST applicable tax
     
    2012 Meet the Mentors Breakfast
     
    This is a great opportunity for mentors to provide information to mentees on the pathway to acheiving scientific success.  The breakfast will allow new investigators the opportunity to speak with senior researchers about their own (new investigator) research ideas in an open and non-judgmental forum.  The panelists will also provide insight on various composnents that take place during research, from how to get funded and how long it takes to complete a project to how to involve other researchers and decide on the right publications for your research.  Click here for a list of the mentors and the topics they will be discussing.
      
    2012 Call for Abstracts

    The DRS 2012 abstract submission site is now closed! The annual meeting will include scientific oral paper sessions and a display of scientific posters. The objective of the scientific sessions is to foster research and to promote and exchange new ideas in the area of swallowing and swallowing disorders.