How to Register:
- Registration Fees and Deadlines
- What Registration Includes
- Registration Confirmation
- Registration Cancellation Policy
- Transfer of Registration
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Registration Fees:
| Regular Rate
(until April 28, 2012) | On-site*
(May 6 - 9, 2012) | One-day rate
(Monday or Tuesday) |
General Registration | $375 | $500 | $187 |
Press Registration* | No Fee | No Fee | No Fee |
* Based upon availability.
What Registration Includes:
- Admittance to the plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and exhibit hall
- Attendance at special events that might be planned during the conference
- Meals (see agenda for details)
Registration Payment:
- Payment can be made by check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit cards.
- Mailed checks must be payable to ASTPHND (Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors)
Mail payments to:
ASTPHND
Attn: WON Registration
PO Box 1001
Johnstown, PA 15907-1001
- Submit payment with a copy of your online registration form.
- Please use the Check Payment option if you would like to print your registration form for later payment.
All credit card payments must be processed through the event website. Registration forms with credit card information will NOT be accepted via fax or mail. Acceptable mailed payments include check and purchase orders only.
Registration Confirmation:
If you register online and pay by credit card, you will receive an immediate confirmation via e-mail indicating that your registration and payment have been processed.
If you register online indicating payment via check, purchase order, or money order, you will receive a notification via e-mail indicating that your registration is pending until full payment is received.
If you register via fax or US mail and provide an e-mail address, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of your registration and payment within 15 business days of receipt of payment at our offices.
If you do not provide an e-mail address, you will receive your registration confirmation by fax (if you provided a fax number) or by mail.
Carefully review your registration confirmation to ensure that all information is accurate.
Your registration confirmation will serve as your receipt. Please bring your registration confirmation with you to the registration desk to help reduce delays in case verification of your payment is needed.
*Journalists or members of the press must meet the following criteria to have the conference registration fee waived:
- Reporters, writers, producers and editors with staff credentials from newspapers, magazines, online news services, wire services, radio or television networks and stations that produce daily or weekly health/medical/science news. Applications from credentialed news media who produce materials for bi-monthly, monthly, or quarterly publications or programs will be considered on a case by case basis.
- Freelancers with approved credentials and/or an assignment letter from an approved media outlet. (Freelancers are required to provide three by-lined articles/clip links written for media outlets (criteria above) within the past six months.)
- Editors, writers of newsletters created and distributed by universities and hospitals for the public/patients/students.
- Online news services or online outlets that provide daily or weekly coverage of health/medical/science news.
- Bloggers who are associated with traditional media outlets or those who report on breaking health news on a daily/weekly basis.
- Journalists must complete the press registration form, upload or mail a copy of their press credentials.
- Journalists are required to provide for their own meals
Registration Cancellation Policy:
After April 15, 2012, there will be no refunds. NO EXCEPTIONS. Registration cancellation requests received before April 15, 2012, will be refunded minus a $35.00 processing fee.
Send written instruction to cancel your registration by mail, e-mail, or fax to:
Mail: DESA, Inc., Attn: Registrar, WON, PO Box 6805, Columbia, SC 29260
E-mail: weightofthenation@desainc.com
Fax: 803.743.1160
Transfer of Registration Policy:
Requests to transfer registration must be received by April 15, 2012.
Send written instructions to transfer your registration by mail, e-mail, or fax to:
Mail DESA, Inc., Attn: Registrar, WON, PO Box 6805, Columbia, SC 29260
E-mail weightofthenation@desainc.com
Fax 803.743.1160
For transfers requested before April 15, 2012, please tell replacements that if they do not receive mail by May 1, 2012, confirming the registration transfer, they are to report to the “Onsite Registration/Transferred Registration” desk at the conference. They may bring your registration or name when they arrive at the desk.
Online registration closes Saturday, April 28, 2012.
