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2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Photos

  |  Issue: February 2016  |  

Orange Photography/Amanda Harris and Katelyn Tucker/ Guner Gulyesil:shutterstock

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Orange Photography/Amanda Harris and Katelyn Tucker/ Guner Gulyesil:shutterstock

San Francisco, Nov. 6–11, 2015

The 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in San Francisco was the most well attended in the College’s history. With the poster hall, exhibit hall, concurrent scheduling of multiple tracks and hundreds of scientific sessions presented during the event, the odds are good that even attendees missed a lot of what they might have wanted to see or listen to, and if you missed the Annual Meeting altogether, you won’t want to miss the session summaries in this special section.

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