See You in Seaside: Why the ASAN Allergy Nurses Conference Is Worth Your Weekend
This September, the American Society of Allergy Nurses (ASAN) brings its 39th Annual Conference to the Seaside Convention Center on the Oregon Coast, September 18 through 20, 2026. Vital Care of Portland will be there, and if you are a nurse, medical assistant, or clinic manager working in allergy, asthma, or immunology anywhere in the Northwest, we hope you will be too.
We know how hard it is to step away from a busy clinic for a weekend, even a weekend at the beach. So here is our honest case for making the trip: the top five things a conference like ASAN gives you that a normal work week never will.
1. Learning About New Treatments Before They Show Up in Your Clinic
The allergy and immunology treatment landscape is moving fast. Biologics for asthma and chronic urticaria, new approaches to food allergy, and an expanding set of immunoglobulin therapies for immunodeficiency are all changing what care looks like at the clinic level. Conference sessions put you a step ahead, so when a provider writes the order or a patient asks a question, you have already heard the evidence, the dosing logic, and the practical administration tips from nurses who are doing it every day.
2. Earning Continuing Education Credits in One Trip
Keeping up with license renewal requirements one webinar at a time is a grind. The ASAN conference offers 12.5 nursing contact hours across the workshop and conference sessions, which means you can bank a meaningful share of your continuing education for the cycle in a single weekend, learning from national faculty rather than a recorded slideshow.
3. Networking with Nurses Who Get It
Allergy and immunology nursing is specialized work, and in many clinics there are only a handful of people who truly understand your day. Spending a weekend with hundreds of colleagues who run the same immunotherapy schedules, manage the same reaction protocols, and field the same patient questions is energizing in a way that is hard to replicate. The connections you make become the people you call the next time you face something new.
4. Brainstorming on Processes and Protocols
Some of the most valuable conference takeaways never appear on a slide. They come from the hallway conversation about how another clinic structures its shot room flow, screens for biologic reactions, or documents home therapy training. Bring your stickiest operational problem to Seaside and ask five other nurses how they handle it. You will come home with ideas your clinic can implement the following week.
5. Meeting Infusion Partners Like Vital Care of Portland
Conferences are also where clinics discover the partners who make their referrals easier. Vital Care of Portland is a locally owned, ACHC-accredited infusion pharmacy serving the Portland metro area and beyond, with home infusion and a private infusion suite in Happy Valley. For allergy and immunology practices, we dispense IVIG and SCIG for primary immunodeficiency and CVID, biologics, and other specialty therapies, and we handle benefits investigation, prior authorization, and patient assistance enrollment end to end. If your clinic has patients who need immunoglobulin therapy and you want a partner who communicates proactively, come find us at the conference. We would love to talk through how we can support your patients.
Make the Trip
The ASAN 39th Annual Conference runs September 18 through 20, 2026 at the Seaside Convention Center in Seaside, Oregon. Registration details are available at allergynurses.org. And if you cannot make it to Seaside but want to learn more about partnering with a local infusion pharmacy, reach out anytime:
Phone: 971-484-4940
Visit: vitalcareofportland.com
