MDRS is a by-invitation-only professional society dedicated to the study of memory. Members are engaged in basic and clinical research into how memory works and why it fails.
Philadelphia - 2022
Virtual - 2021
New York - 2019
Toronto - 2018
Chicago - 2017
Princeton - 2016
Cambridge, UK - 2015
Austin - 2014
Toronto - 2013
Davis - 2012
Barcelona - 2011
Evanston - 2010
Durham - 2009
St. Louis - 2008
Cambridge, UK - 2007
Toronto - 2006
Tucson - 2005
New York - 2004
Chicago - 2003
San Francisco - 2002
Boston - 2001
Toronto - 2000
Tucson - 1999
Cambridge, MA - 1998
San Francisco - 1997
Cambridge, MA - 1996
Cambridge, UK - 1995
Cambridge, MA - 1994
Boston - 1993
Boston - 1992
Boston - 1991
Boston - 1990
Boston - 1989
The society meets annually.
Founded by Dr. Laird Cermak, the inaugural meeting of MDRS was held in Boston in 1989.The society has met every year since. The venue of the annual meeting rotates, with a three-day meeting in autumn that is organized by a volunteer group of MDRS members from the host locale.