The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.

The AANS conference will present the latest research in neurosurgery through panels, seminars, and practical clinics. This year’s theme is “We are Neurosurgery.” Scientific  guest speakers include National Medal of Science Laureate and Cushing Orator J. Craig Venter, the first person to decode the human genome, Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, and MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, a recipient of Time magazine’s best inventions award.

A media briefing on comparative effectiveness research will be held on April 17 in Washington, D.C. The media briefing will discuss major issue of comparative effectiveness research, which includes the comparison of treatments to determine which carry the greatest benefits and harms for which patients, with results assisting patients and physicians in making more informed health care decisions.