title: The annual ASCI meeting: does nostalgia have a future?
abstract: For many academic physician-scientists, the yearly Tri-Societies meeting of the ASCI, AAP, and AFCR during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s was an annual rite of spring and the focal point of the academic year. In this brief essay, I set down some miscellaneous recollections of these meetings and some thoughts about why they were of such central importance in the careers of those of my generation.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. lefko001@receptor-biol.duke.edu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Lefkowitz
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States