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Please note that badges will not be mailed in advance. Be sure to bring your ExpressPass email confirmation with you to the Meeting. Learn more.

Everyone must register for the Meeting, whether you are presenting a poster or paper, attending or exhibiting. While you must pay membership dues to submit an abstract, membership dues do not include Meeting registration. First authors of accepted abstracts must pay the registration fee to attend; a complimentary full-meeting exhibitor badge is not a substitute.

Registration includes:

• Admission to the Annual Meeting’s scientific sessions
• Workshops
• SIGs and exhibits
• Free internet at the Convention Center
• A Program Summary book and Pocket Guide
• A Tote Bag

How to register

ARVO's registration system will provide ExpressPass email confirmations with a custom QR Code to quickly scan and print your badge at kiosks onsite at the convention center all week, and at select hotels on Saturday and Sunday.

Please note that badges will not be mailed in advance.

Learn where and when you can print your badge

_{*Full-time non-member students (undergraduates, graduate students, fellows and residents must provide the name and email address of their supervisor when registering).}

Guest registration procedures

Registrants who wish to have a spouse, domestic partner, significant other or immediate family member attend Annual Meeting sessions for the entire Meeting (Sunday – Thursday) may register them for $225 through April 26; and onsite for $250. There will also be a one day guest pass available onsite for $75.

ARVO members, co-authors on abstracts or individuals having a professional interest may not register as guests.

Guests must be registered by the ARVO attendee through the regular registration process. Eligibility of guests will be verified. Children under 18 are not required to pay, but must pick up a wristband at the Badge Replacement Desk and must be supervised at all times. Guests must be accompanied by the registered ARVO attendee for onsite registration.

Education course registration

ARVO Education Courses are offered on Saturday, May 4. Full-day and half-day courses are available.

Separate registration is required in advance for Education Courses. They are not included with Annual Meeting registration.

Research Grant Administrators Workshop and Luncheon

This full-day program takes place on Tuesday, May 7, for qualified participants. Learn more and register.

Cancellation and refund policy

• The deadline to receive refund requests is Friday, April 26, 2013.
• Annual Meeting registration: Registration fees will be refunded for the amount paid, less a $40 administrative fee ($20 for students).
• Saturday Education Course registration: Registration fees will be refunded for the amount paid, less a $30 administrative fee ($20 for students).
• No refunds will be given for cancellations received in the ARVO office after April 26, 2013.
• All cancellations must be sent in writing to ARVO, 1801 Rockville Pike, Suite 400, Rockville, MD 20852, or by emailing arvo@arvo.org.

Photography Release

By attending the ARVO Annual Meeting, attendees agree to allow their names, likenesses and images either in audio, photographic or video format recorded onsite to be used by ARVO and the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research for educational and promotional purposes.

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