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Seminar At Sea Where Education can be fun

About Us

It all started when we wanted to have a seminar for our continuing education units and get away from it all.

  At Seminar At Sea (SAS) we know the value of networking, exchanging ideas, staying knowledgeable in the medical profession and planning for the future.  Getting together to learn and plan for the future is a lot of work.  Even organizing an event can consume valuable time, money, and energy.  From past experience we've discovered that choosing a cruise ship is the best venue for whatever meeting or seminar you're needing to earn your valuable continuing education units. It is the most cost effective, hassle-free choice.

For a two day land based seminar your hotel bill alone will might often pay for an entire cruise ticket. And, that does not include meals or anything else you might do while in town. See below for a brief comparison.

Due to the past response and demand for inclusion in prior seminars, it is extremely important to register early with a completed application and a deposit.  Seminar At Sea is limited to the number of attendees. Inclusion in each seminar is only possible with the associated cruise package offered by Annie’s Fantasy Cruises & Flights. Friends, family and associates who are not taking seminars are welcomed and encouraged to participate in any offered sailing.

The Travel Agents

Annie & Greg

It all started when we wanted to have a seminar for our continuing education units and get away from it all.
Annie’s Fantasy Cruises & Flights, aka ‘AFC’, began in August 1995, started by Annie Henson, 
a Registered Respiratory Therapist with a B.S. degree and twenty five years experience, 
and assisted by Greg Ebow a mainframe Analyst for over twenty years, it soon became 
time for us to find new challenges for the next stages of our lives.
We went to New Orleans and meet with Carnival Cruise Line and were able to inspect several ships. 
We learned about group cruising and today we are considered by Carnival to be one of their top group agencies. 
In 2002 we coordinated the first University of Texas Medical Branch
 “Seminar at Sea”. Now we are cruising into our fourth annual “Seminar at Sea”. 
AFC’s mission in the Seminars At Sea is to provide the travel and coordination 
of rooms, meeting space, entertainment, and total event coordination for CEU’s being obtained at sea.  
“Transforming Fantasy in to Reality” 

The Seminar Director

Gene Gill, RRT

It all started when we wanted to have a seminar for our continuing education units and get away from it all.
Gene Gill, a Registered Respiratory Therapist, started in 1966 in the 
United States Air Force. As a corpsman in Vietnam he got his 
feet wet caring for battle wounded solders and civilian 
Vietnamese causalities. After serving two more years in 
a hospital at RAF Lakenheath, England, he came back 
to the states and began working in the new profession of  
Inhalation Therapy, later know as Respiratory Care.

After obtaining his degree in Respiratory Care, he worked at the 
bedside in all levels of patient care. Some years later he started 
working as an inservice coordinator for cardio-pulmonary 
departments and then turned to healthcare management. 
Starting out at a 30 bed hospital in Shiner Texas he began 
learning the art of cardio-pulmonary directorship. After a series 
of larger hospitals, he found himself at the University of Texas 
Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), a teaching hospital.

There, as Manager of Support Services & Logistics for the Pulmonary 
Care Department he produced two seminars a year for fifteen 
years, then started doing the Seminar At Sea programs.

While still working at UTMB, his new hobby is producing the 
Seminar At Sea programs on his own time.

“Transforming Fantasy in to Reality”