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2008 Attendee Statistics

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2008 Statistics

Exhibiting at the ASH annual meeting puts your organization in front of physicians and others with a specific interest in hematology, ensuring that your products and services will be exposed to a highly targeted audience. As illustrated below, meeting attendees include both clinicians and researchers from all branches of hematology and from all over the world. (For a list of last year’s exhibitors, please see 2008 Exhibitors.)

ASH Annual Meeting Attendance

Year

Location

Attendance

2008 San Francisco, CA 24,032
2007 Atlanta, GA 20,474
2006 Orlando, FL 20,748
2005 Atlanta, GA 18,683

The following figures exclude exhibitors and guests.

Primary Institutional Affiliation

Hospital/Clinical Facility

30%

Medical School

28%

Corporate (Biotech or Pharmaceutical)

19%

Nonprofit Research Institute

7%

Private Practice

6%

Corporate Research Institute

3%

Free-Standing Health-Care Facility

0%

Other

7%


Geographic Breakdown

United States 8,868
International 11,050
Europe 6,442
Asia 1,940
South America,Central America, and Caribbean 1,174
Canada 819
Africa 154
Mexico 267
Australia 254
Total 19,918

Primary Job Responsibilities

Research

33%

Direct or Lab-Based Patient Care

28%

Teaching

17%

Administration

12%

Other

10%


Primary Subspecialty Area

Internal Medicine 56%
Hematology-Oncology 53%
Hematology 32%
Oncology 8%
Transfusion Medicine 1%
Other 6%

Research Scientist 29%
Hematology 29%
Oncology 24%
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology 17%
Immunology/Microbiology 9%
Pharmacology 4%
Cell Biology 7%
Biophysics/Physiology 1%
Other 9%

Pediatrics 10%
Hematology-Oncology 68%
Hematology 21%
Oncology 6%
Other 5%

Pathology 5%
Hematopathology 50%
Laboratory Medicine 30%
Transfusion Medicine 15%
Other 5%

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