The American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (A4M) has inked a five-year contract to bring its annual educational world conference to Las Vegas through 2016.
A4M has held its annual conference in Las Vegas since 2002 and chose to continue to hold its annual conference there for the next several years due to its commitment to advancing medical and wellness tourism as a key growth market. A4M plans to bring its education curriculum to local, national and international healthcare practitioners to understand the key advances in medicine and raise awareness of medical tourism.
A4M will be working with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), which recently hired medical and wellness-tourism manager Cheryl Smith to drive its medical-tourism initiatives.
“The same reasons that make Las Vegas a world-renowned business and leisure destination are the same reasons Las Vegas can be the premier place for continuing medical wellness and education,” said Smith. “Our focus is to attract more medical-focused conferences like A4M so they too can see the value that so many other meeting planners see in Las Vegas.”
Las Vegas ranked at the top of the 2011 “Top 20 Healthcare Meeting Destinations” by the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association.
“Las Vegas sensed the pulse of medical tourism and began to structure itself to create and drive this business vehicle,” said Doreen Brown, CEO, A4M. “Our company gladly supports Las Vegas and its medical community and we look forward to educating the various doctors that arrive at our conference.”
In addition to education, A4M has more than 300 exhibitors in different facets promoting the latest products in anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Doctors will be able to research products and implement them in their respective practices.
As an incentive for Nevada doctors to attend, A4M is giving members of the Southern Nevada Medical Industry Coalition a discount to A4M’s 20th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine scheduled Dec. 13-15.
“Doctors, nurses, and healthcare practitioners are the staple of our community, working feverishly to ensure our well-being. We want to assure they obtain the best quality of education that can be offered at their convenience,” said Brown.
A4M’s membership is comprised of more than 26,000 worldwide members spanning more than 110 nations.
A4M is a nonprofit medical society dedicated to the advancement of technology to detect, prevent and treat aging-related disease and to promote research into methods to retard and optimize the human aging process. A4M also is dedicated to educating physicians, scientists and the public on biomedical sciences, breaking technologies and anti-aging issues. A4M believes the disabilities associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunction, which in many cases is ameliorable to medical treatment so that the human lifespan can be increased and the quality of one’s life enhanced as one grows older.
A4M seeks to disseminate information concerning innovative science and research as well as treatment modalities designed to prolong the human lifespan. Anti-aging medicine is based on the scientific principles of responsible medical care consistent with those of other healthcare specialties. Although A4M seeks to disseminate information on many types of medical treatments, it does not promote or endorse any specific treatment nor does it sell or endorse any commercial products.
