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The article focuses on the highlights from the 2024 ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting, showcasing abstracts from the Faculty of Pain Medicine's Best Free Paper Award session, including the advancements in chronic pain management, the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral techniques.

The profession of recreational therapy first established professional membership organizations in the 1940s and 1950s. The most recent national professional membership organization was developed in 1984, when the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) was formed. The National Academy of Recreational Therapists (NART) was established in 2011 as an honor society to recognize the most accomplished practitioners and educators in recreational therapy and to provide a clearinghouse for the exchange of ideas that would ultimately lead to the advancement of the recreational therapy profession. Efforts to establish NART began in 2009 when David Austin and Ray West drafted a conceptualization of the academy and its operations, as well as proposed a set of by-laws. A steering committee was subsequently established to review and approve by-laws for NART and to establish the Founding Fellows of NART. The central purpose of the Academy was the advancement of recreational therapy by recognition, education, research, scholarly activity, advocacy, and the provision of advice to decision makers. Since its inception NART has established and funded a Future Scholars Fund to support outstanding graduate students considering pursuing a terminal degree, as well as the Marcia Carter Scholarly Manuscript Award for the best annual publication in the Therapeutic Recreation Journal. Over its first 10 years, NART made revisions to its bylaws to refine criteria and categories for Fellows, and by 2021 there were 77 elected Fellows. The invited paper summarizes the first 10 years and considers a number of original goals that remain to be realized to support and advance this honor society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to review the perceptions of the Southeast European countries toward the NPT and TPNW and identify the main determinants of their disarmament policies. It analyzes official statements of the Southeast European states during the NPT preparatory meetings and review conferences, and their positions in various stages of the TPNW development, to bring out a position of a certain country toward the NPT and TPNW and then dive into analysis of the determinants of the outcomes. The paper contributes to the deeper understanding of the disarmament policy choices of the Southeast European states, thus also contributing to the assessment of possible changes in their positions regarding the nuclear weapons ban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This meeting was hosted by St George's Hospital, London 13th–15th September 2023 at the Twickenham Conference and Events Centre, London. The full abstracts of the platform presentations are followed by the titles of those submissions accepted as short orals and e-posters. The order of abstracts is that of presentation. Any papers in the programme that were not presented to the society at the meeting have not been published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents updates and announcements from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), as of July 2024. Topics include registration for access to the on-demand educational sessions through the #AGS24 Virtual Annual Meeting Platform, the call for abstracts for presentation as a paper or poster at the AGS 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting, and the search of the AGS for nominations for national awards.

The article focuses on presentations at ACPA's 2024 Annual Meeting, covering diverse topics such as innovative techniques for cleft rhinoplasty, novel methods for nasal aesthetic analysis, and advancements in digital workflow for nasoalveolar molding fabrication. It highlight the importance of improving surgical outcomes, enhancing preoperative planning, and leveraging technology for more effective cleft care interventions.

The article discusses the highlights of the 123rd Annual Meeting held by the Medical Library Association, Inc. in Detroit, Michigan on May 16-19, 2023. It presents the sponsors and exhibitors who have demonstrated their outstanding support for the conference and for the value they see in information professionals, a conference overview, and the annual business meeting and outgoing presidential address.