
You will find important information here about the upcoming APA annual meeting, with regular updates. Please also note the important dates for our California meeting listed below. Add them to your calendar!
Hotel Booking Site Open: Book by 10/20 for the reduced rate!
Registration Site Open: Register by 10/15 for the early rate!
Distinguished Annual Award Nominations: Accepting nominations through 10/5!
Loews Coronado Bay Hotel
A Secluded Waterfront Oasis with Genuine Southern California Style
Join APA members, colleagues and industry partners for 2025 Annual Meeting!
Loews Coronado Bay
4000 Coronado Bay Road, Coronado, 92118
Hotel’s Direct Number: 619-424-4000
* The cut-off date to receive the special group rate is October 20, 2025. Reservations made after this date, or after the room block fills, will be based on space and rate availability.
Reservations can be made online at: https://www.loewshotels.com/coronado-bay-resort/group-american-pancreatic-association-2025-meeting or by calling 1-877-872-8559.
Group Rates Available: November 7 through November 20, 2025
Guest Room Rates: starting from $284 plus tax
Group Block Closes: October 20, 2025
Group Details: Nightly Resort Charge has been waived for registered group guests only.
Hotel check-in is at 4:00pm local time, and check-out is at 11:00am local time. Every effort will be made to accommodate both early check-in and late check-out for guests; however, it cannot be guaranteed and is based on the availability of the hotel.
Cancellation:
Hotel cancellation policy requires guests to cancel by 4 pm local time 7 Days before arrival to avoid a penalty fee of 1 night’s room and tax.
** Please note that a credit card is required at the time of booking to guarantee the reservation.
Registration is Now Open!
Registration Fees:
Member Early: $350
Member Late (after October 15): $450
Non-Member Early: $450
Member Late (after October 15): $550
Cancellation Policy
Requests for refunds must be made in writing and received on or before October 1, 2025. A $50 processing fee applies to all refunds and returned checks. Cancellations and registrations postmarked after the deadline date will not be eligible for refunds.
Please submit all written cancellation requests to apa@apapancreas.org
Program-at-a-Glance
Wednesday, November 12
APA PreMeeting Symposium: The Entangled Nature of the Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreas
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Welcome & Remembering Dana Andersen’s Legacy
8:10 AM: Diabetes in Benign Exocrine Pancreas Disease
9:25 AM: Diabetes in Pancreatic Cancer
10:25 AM: Break
10:45 AM: Pancreas Development and Lineage Plasticity: Relevance to Exocrine Pancreas Disease
11:45 AM: Lunch
1:00 PM: Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplant
1:40 PM: Acinar-Islet Compartment Interactions
2:55 PM: Break
3:15 PM: Exocrine Involvement in T1D and T2D
4:15 PM: Closing Remarks
5:00 PM: Hirshberg Symposium: Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia
7:00 PM: President’s Reception
Thursday, November 13
7:00 AM: Breakfast & Training the Next Generation of Pancreatitis Researchers (round-table discussion)
8:00 AM: Abstract Session: Pancreatitis
10:00 AM: Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM: Clinical Pancreatitis: What’s now proven, almost there, or has consensus?
11:45 AM: Frank Brooks Lecture: Mark Lowe
12:15 PM: Lunch and Thursday Posters
12:30 PM: Amgen Product Theater
2:00 PM: Basic and Translational Pancreatic Cancer Research
3:00 PM: A Debate on TPIAT for Intractable Pancreatitis
4:00 PM: Break with Exhibitors
4:25 PM: Abstract Session: Pancreatic Cancer
7:00 PM: Awards Reception
8:00 PM: Awards Dinner
Friday, November 14
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Young Investigators Abstract Session
10:00 AM: Break with Exhibitors
10:25 AM: A Vision for Experimental Pancreatitis over the Next Decade
11:20 AM: Concurrent Sessions: New Technologies and Tools Including AI in Pancreatic Diseases
Pancreatitis Concurrent Session: Pushing the Frontiers of Pancreatology using Digital, AI-driven Tools and Wide Screens
Pancreatic Cancer Concurrent Session: Early Detection, New Technologies, AI, and Imaging in Pancreatic Cancer Research
12:30 PM: Lunch and Friday Posters
2:30 pm Business Meeting
2:45 PM: Paul Webster Lecture: David A Tuveson
3:15 PM Break with Exhibitors
3:45 PM: Pancreatic Cancer and Pancreatitis Concurrent Sessions
Pancreatic Cancer Concurrent Session: Breakthroughs in Clinical Trials, Clinical Management, and Surgical Advancements in Pancreatic Cancer (Towards Improved Outcomes in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: Breakthroughs and Novel Findings)
Concurrent Pancreatitis Session: New Methods and Devices in Endoscopy and Surgery for Pancreatitis Management
5:00 PM: Inclusivity in Training and Patient Care/ Keynote: John M. Carethers
6:00 PM: Inclusivity Reception
Saturday, November 15
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Tumor Immune Microenvironment, Metabolic Reprogramming in Pancreatic Cancer
9:15 AM: Basic/Translational Pancreatitis: What have we Learned over the Last Year about the Biology of Pancreatitis
10:30 AM: Break
10:45 AM: Rapid Fire Abstract Session
12:30 PM: Conclude
Frank Brooks Lecture
Dr Brooks was a renowned GI physiologist and was viewed as one of the founding fathers of the field. To that end, Dr. Brooks started the journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences, serving as its first Editor-in-Chief. Recognized nationally and internationally, Dr. Brooks was President of the American Gastroenterology Association in 1980, and won several awards, including its highest one, the Julius Friedenwald Medal. He trained and mentored a generation of students, residents and GI fellows. As described by Dr. Paul Webster, 1978 APA President, Dr. Frank Brooks was a gentleman of the first order, and an individual who supported young investigators and young academicians, a motivator, an organizer, an inspiration and a clinical leader.
2024 The Future is Here! Forecasting the Major Disruptors in Pancreatic Diseases Symposium
2023 Dafna Bar-Sagi PhD | Disruption of Immune Homeostasis Circuits in Pancreatic Cancer
2022 Anna Gukovskaya PhD | Unraveling Pancreatitis Puzzles
2021 Miklos Sahin-Toth MD | Hereditary Pancreatitis: 25 Years of an Evolving Paradigm
2020 Julia Mayerle MD | Immune Mechanisms and Their Role in Influencing the Outcomes in Pancreatitis: Cytokine Storm, SIRS-CARS
2019 Half Century of Pancreatic Cell Biology and Beyond Symposium
2018 Timothy Wang, MD | The Role of Nerves and Inflammation in Pancreatic Cancer
2017 Ronald M. Evans, PhD | Controlling Stroma to Corral Pancreatic Cancer
2016 Craig Logsdon, PhD | The Stressed Acinar Cell: Adapt, Die or Disaster
2015 Matthias Hebrok, PhD | Defining Progenitor Cells for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
2014 Anil Rustgi, MD | A New Perspective on IPMN, PanIN and PDAC Pathogenesis
2013 Steven D. Leach, MD | Ending the Beginning: Targeting PanIN Initiation and Progression
2012 Minoti Apte, MBBS, MMedSci, PhD | A Journey To, and With, the Stars of the Pancreas : Pivotal Roles of Pancreatic Stellate Cells in Health and Disease
2011 Michael Karin, PhD | Obesity, Autophagy & Infl ammation: Common Features in the Pathogenesis and Etiology of Liver and Pancreatic Cancers
2010 Jean Morisset, PhD | The Implication of CCK Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Development: a Myth or a Neglected Possibility?
2009 Anirban Maitra, MBBS | Pancreatic Cancer in the Post-Genomics Era: Are we ready to take the road less traveled?
2008 John A. Williams, MD, PhD | Mechanisms of Pancreatic Growth Regulation by CCK and Nutrients
2007 J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD | G Protein-regulated Signaling Networks and Cancer: What Have We Learned?
2006 Jonathan Cohn, MD | Mutations in CFTR and Pancreatic Disease
2005 Markus M. Lerch, MD | The Innocent First Minutes of Disaster-How Pancreatitis Begins
Paul Webster Lecture
2024 Analyzing the Past and Predicting the Future of Pancreatic Diseases Symposium
2023 Markus Büchler MD | Pancreatic Cancer: The Particular Role of Surgery in the Era of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment
2022 Darwin L. Conwell MD, MSc | Biomarker Development in Chronic Pancreatitis: An Update from PROCEED
2021 Vijay P. Singh MBBS | What I Learned from Pancreatitis
2020 Eileen M. O’Reilly MD | Genomics Era in Pancreas Cancer: Truth or Fiction?
2019 Half Century of Progress in Pancreatic Surgery and Beyond
2018 Nageshwar Reddy, MD | Five Decades of the Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy – The Changing Scenario
2017 Markus M. Lerch MD | The Shifting Landscape of Pancreatitis
2016 David Patrick Ryan, MD | Pancreatic Cancer in 2017: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?
2015 Pramod Garg, MD | Why Have We Failed in Developing a Therapy For Pancreatitis?
2014 Andrew L. Warshaw, MD | Appropriate Health Care: A Surgeon’s View of the Patient with Pancreatic Disease
- All presenters must submit a financial disclosure form.
- All presenters are required to register for the Annual Meeting.
- Oral Presentation Instructions
- Oral presenters must upload their presentations by November 10, and updated presentations must be submitted no later than 5 pm the day before your presentation at the speaker’s ready table outside the session room.
- Poster Presentation Instructions
Previous Programs
Past APA Final Programs
Consensus Conferences
A pre-meeting symposium has been a great way to gather experts in a particular field and publish guidelines for patient care.
History:
(2014) Acute Pancreatitis: Progress & Challenges
(2014) APA/Kenner Family Research Fund: Early Detection of Sporadic Pancreatic Cancer Summit Conference
(2013) State of the Science in Idiopathic Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis
(2012) Evidence-based Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis
(2011) Practice Guidelines in Chronic Pancreatitis
(2010) Interventions in Pancreatic Necrosis