20th Anniversary - INSAR Annual Meeting: 2020 - 2010
INSAR Annual Meeting: Celebrating 20 Years
2020 - 2010

INSAR 2021 marks the 20th Anniversary of the INSAR Annual Meeting (formally named IMFAR). To celebrate this milestone, video interviews and written reflections were collected from past INSAR Board & Committee Members, Lifetime Achievement Awardees, and INSAR Fellows.

 



INSAR 20th Anniversary - Interviews

 

Sven Bölte, PhD

 
 
 

INSAR 2020 Virtual

The INSAR 2020 Annual Meeting, which was scheduled to be held in Seattle, WA, USA, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The INSAR Board of Directors, along with the 2020 Scientific Program Chairs, held a webinar with the invited 2020 Keynote Speakers on June 3, 2020, which was free and open to the public. Additionally, all accepted abstracts from the cancelled meeting were converted to ePosters that were published on the INSAR website.

INSAR Committee events that were scheduled for Seattle, such as Meet-the-Experts and Special Interest Group Sessions, were also held virtually, June - August 2020.  

Click Here to View the INSAR 2020 Virtual Archive Page

 

2019 Annual Meeting Program

The 2019 Annual Meeting was held in Montreal. 2,503 researchers, students, and stakeholders attended this meeting, making it INSAR's largest meeting at that time.

 

2018 Annual Meeting

In 2018, INSAR went to Rotterdam for the Annual Meeting. Here, 1,775 attendees came to the four-day event.

 
 
 

Geri Dawson, PhD

2017 Annual Meeting

In 2017, the INSAR Annual Meeting hosted over 2,300 attendees. This was the largest group until the record-breaking meeting in 2019.

 
 
   

 Matthew Lerner, PhD

2015 Annual Meeting

In 2015, the INSAR Annual Meeting was held in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this year, more than 1,400 abstracts were presented, marking a big increase that would continue in INSAR's future.

 
 

Patricia Howlin, PhD  

 
   

2011 Annual Meeting

The 2011 Annual Meeting was the 10th Anniversary. Researchers, students, and stakeholders met in San Diego, the same site as the very first meeting in 2001.

 

Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD

 
 

 Hilde Geurts, PhD

Sally Rogers, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

 

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