The American Medical Informatics Association 2008 Annual Symposium will be held in Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008. "The symposium brings together an amazing network of informatics experts that span the spectrum of foundations and applications of informatics," according to the AMIA Web site. "AMIA 2008 will gather professionals from an array of occupational settings—academic institutions, community-based organizations, government and military, health systems and hospitals, industry, nonprofit organizations, and private practice—which makes it the most exciting meeting in biomedical and health informatics each year."