2007 ARM-at-a-Glance

• Attendance --- nearly 2,000
• First Timers --- 35 percent
• Long Timers (have attended more than 5 ARMs) --- 30 percent
• Members --- 69 percent
• Students/Fellows --- 20 percent
• International --- 4 percent
• Speakers --- 30 percent
• New Speakers --- 49 percent of the panelists were speaking at the ARM for the first time!
• Sessions --- 147 (up 4 percent from last year)
• Balance of breakout sessions
• 52 percent peer reviewed sessions (up 6 percent from last year)
• 48 percent invited sessions (methods, skill and career development workshops, federal research updates and resources, invited papers, and policy roundtables)
• Abstract Submissions --- 1,671
• Abstracts acceptance rate:
  Papers = 23 percent
  Panels = 34 percent
• Posters --- 850 presented
• Exhibitors --- 73
• PowerPoint Presentations on Web --- over 400
• Adjunct Meetings --- over 50, including 15 AcademyHealth Interest Groups and 3 Methods Seminars
• Evaluation Response --- 41 percent (up from 30 percent last year)