You will find important information here about the upcoming APA annual meeting, with updates happening regularly. Please also note the important dates for our California meeting listed below. Add them to your calendar!
Hotel Booking Site Open: Now!
Book your room today at the Loews Coronado in San Diego, California! Use this link to reserve your room.
Registration Site Open: August 2025
Abstract Submission Notifications: August 2025
Hotel Rate Deadline: October 15, 2025
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 14, 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 14, 2024
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 will open soon!
Registration Fees:
Member Early: $350
Member Late (after October 1): $450
Non-Member Early: $450
Member Late (after October 1): $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
FULL PROGRAM (coming soon!)
Wednesday, November 12
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Welcome and Introductions
8:10 AM: Session 1: Diabetes in Benign Exocrine Pancreas Disease
9:15 AM: Session 2: Diabetes in Pancreatic Cancer
10:15 AM: Break
10:30 AM: Session 3: Pancreas Development and Lineage Plasticity: Relevance to Exocrine Pancreas Disease
11:30 AM: Lunch
12:45 PM: Session 4: Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplant
1:30 PM: Session 5: Acinar-Islet Compartment Interactions
2:35 PM: Coffee Break
2:55 PM: Session 6: Exocrine Involvement in T1D and T2D
4:00 PM: Closing Remarks
5:00 PM: Hirshberg Symposium & Welcome
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 1 (Pancreatitis)
10:00 AM: Coffee Break with Exhibitors
10:30 AM: Clinical pancreatitis: What’s now proven, almost there, or has consensus?
11:45 AM: Frank Brooks lecture
12:15 PM: Lunch and Meet with the Authors Posters
2:00 PM: PC Session 1. Basic and Translational Pancreatic Cancer Research
3:00 PM: A Debate on TPIAT for Intractable Pancreatitis
4:00 PM: Coffee Break with Exhibitors
4:25 PM: PDAC Abstracts
7:00 PM: Awards Reception
8:00 PM: Awards Dinner
Friday, November 14
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Young Investigators Abstract Session, PDAC and Pancreatitis
10:00 AM: Coffee Break with Exhibitors
10:25 AM: A Vision for Experimental Pancreatitis over the Next Decade
11:20 AM: Concurrent Pancreatitis & PDAC Sessions: New Technologies and Tools Including AI in Pancreatic Diseases
12:30 PM: Lunch and Posters
2:30 pm Business Meeting
2:45 PM: Paul Webster Lecture
3:15 PM Break
3:45 PM: PDAC and Pancreatitis Concurrent Sessions
5:00 PM: Inclusivity in Training and Patient Care in the Current Environment
6:00 PM: Inclusivity Reception
Saturday, November 15
7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM: Session 4. 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: Coffee Break
10:45 AM: Rapid Fire Abstract Sessions
12:30 PM: Conclude
Call for Abstracts
Submissions Closed – Late-Breaking Abstracts Opening Soon
PRESENTATION TYPES
There is no manuscript submission requirement for any accepted presentation, though submission to the Pancreas Journal is encouraged.
Oral– Podium presentation opportunity. If your abstract is not selected as an Oral presentation, it will automatically be considered for a Poster presentation.
Poster– Non-podium presentation opportunity. Case reports welcome.
FORMAT
- No reference to the authors or the institution should appear within the body of the abstract.
- Author String: for each author, you will need to provide the following information: Name, Credentials, Email address, Department/Division, Institution, City, State (if within the US) or Country (if outside the US)
- Abstract body (300 words or less), segmented as Background,
- Methods, Results and Conclusion.
- Sponsoring Institution
- Tables, figures or references are NOT accepted
- Disclosure Information
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
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