The meeting has played an important role in building our community of providers for adults with congenital heart disease.  It traces its roots to David Sahn and Gary Webb who established this rotating educational forum.  The venue has been host to Joe Perloff and Jane Sommerville and subsequent generations of ACHD providers like us that have followed. 

Skamania has been a place for building relationships with others in the field, and we want to keep that tradition going.  Therefore, the meeting objectives are to not only address knowledge gaps, but also network gaps, collaboration gaps, and friendship gaps.   We will highlight emerging research, discuss contemporary topics in ACHD in some unique ways, and importantly, build the ACHD community worldwide, not only across institutions but across hemispheres.  The objectives also mean the meeting is meant to be relaxed, fun, and interactive.  We encourage participants to mix around the sessions and also at social and recreational events that will be built into the program.  

Please note that, as in years past, we fully expect the venue will fill to capacity, and alternative lodging in the area is limited.  We have worked with the lodge to provide the maximum number of rooms for meeting attendees.  Therefore, reservations will need to be done through the meeting registration link.   Apart from the Lodge, there are limited accommodation options in the area, specifically the Best Western Plus Columbia River Inn located across the bridge in Cascade Locks, Oregon, or limited local homes for rent in either Stevenson or Carson, WA.  Hood River, Oregon is the closest city with additional lodging.