Media/Press Information

Thank you for your interest in covering The American Society of Breast Surgeons 22nd Annual Meeting. We welcome and encourage press to attend our annual meeting. Press releases on research featured during the meeting, as well as a complete listing of all accepted abstracts, may be found on this website on April 29, 2021.

General Information

Designed specifically to meet the educational and practice-enhancing needs of surgeons who treat breast disease, the Society’s 22nd Annual Meeting will convene April 29-May 2nd in a virtual format.

Credentials

Registered press must list their press affiliation on their virtual meeting profile. Only representatives of the following media will be registered as press:

• General circulation newspapers or magazines
• Medical or health-care publications
• Broadcast media or online news services

Additionally, freelancers who present a letter of assignment from a print, online, or broadcast news organization are eligible for press registration.

NOTE: Advertising, marketing, or public relations representatives from publications or commercial firms will not be registered as members of the press, nor will writers and editors intending to highlight the activities of health care manufacturers or who represent industry publications.

Embargo Policy

All scientific abstracts accepted for oral or poster presentation during the Society’s 22nd Annual Meeting, press releases, and the Society’s Official Proceedings are embargoed until 12:00 pm edt, April 29, 2021. The Society strictly enforces its embargo policy, which prohibits the distribution or publication of the contents of abstracts ahead of the embargo time. Embargoed press releases and official proceedings of the meeting will be distributed to registered credentialed press in advance of the meeting.

Failure to abide by the Society’s embargo policy will result in forfeiture of press credentials for this and future annual meetings.

Press Materials

Press releases will be posted on the American Society of Breast Surgeons website on April 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm edt.

Registration

To apply for press access to the general session of the Society’s 22nd Annual Meeting, contact Sharon Grutman at sgrutman@breastsurgeons.org.