5. The Learner (redux): the late career person who no longer has to play hard at the game and is at the meeting for the science and to have awesome dinners with friends.

Making it to this stage is the aspirational goal.

4. The Leader: the mid to late career person who mostly goes to meet with other key Leaders to plan grants, policies, and initiatives. Only catches a few educational sessions. Comes late and leaves early.

3. The Organizer: the midcareer person involved in planning sessions, moderating, leading symposia, getting people to meet who need to meet. Lucky to make it to half the educational stuff they aren’t involved in.

2. The Presenter: the trainee or early career person who has a poster or oral presentation, still learns and absorbs most of the meeting, but the presentation is the focus.

the day that AI can do schedule-making better than me is the day my work is done as a PD…it’s gonna be a while

Calling it a showdown would be vastly overstating it. Fun article that notes differences in cocci presentations in CA vs AZ that we think are driven by inherent population and care pattern differences and not anything inherent to immitis vs posadasii

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