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Calendar
HRSA-sponsored
Conferences and Meetings / HRSA
Exhibits
HRSA-sponsored
Conferences and Meetings
United States-Mexico
Border Binational Health Week: Families in Action for Health, October
11-17
HRSA, along
with the HHS Office of Global Health Affairs, Mexico Secretariat
of Health and the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, is co-sponsoring
a week of health-related events along the U.S.-Mexico border. The
goal is to encourage and create sustainable behavioral practices,
organizational relationships, and community structures to improve
health status and reduce health disparities. Contact: Elizabeth
Rezaizadeh, 301-443-4107.
“Targeted
HIV Outreach and Intervention Model Development and Evaluation for
Underserved HIV-Positive Populations Not-in-Care Initiative” Grantee
Meeting, October 18-20
HRSA's HIV/AIDS
Bureau will host this Baltimore, Md., event on data collection and
analytic issues, programmatic implementation experiences, multi-site
dissemination strategies, and findings from Phase I of the Initiative.
Contact: Melinda Tinsley, 301-443-3496.
Advisory
Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, October
21-22
HRSA's Bureau
of Health Professions will host this Bethesda, Md., meeting of the
advisory committee to discuss how to measure outcomes of Public
Health Service Act Title VII, Section 747 grant programs. Contact:
Jerilyn Glass, 301-443-6190.
HRSA Activity
in the Pacific Basin, October 25
HRSA's Bureau
of Health Professions’ Division of Medicine and Dentistry (DMD)
will host this meeting in Rockville, Md., to focus on the cooperative
agreement to plan, develop, implement, and operate a continuing
clinical education program in the Pacific Basin. Contact: Anne Patterson,
301-443-6190.
Closing
the Gap on Access and Integration: Primary and Behavioral Health
Care Summit, October 26
HRSA and the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration are co-sponsoring
this summit in Washington, D.C., to explore ways to expand access
to and integrate quality mental health and substance abuse services
with primary care, and to create strategies to enhance the infrastructure
to support behavioral health in community-based settings. Contact:
Valerie DeVonish, 301-594-4474.
National
Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice Meeting, November
3-5
HRSA Administrator
Dr. Betty Duke is expected to speak on November 3 at this Washington,
D.C., meeting, organized by HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions
and its Division of Nursing. Contact: Elaine Cohen, 301-443-5688.
Advisory
Committee on Organ Transplantation Meeting, November 4-5
HRSA’s Healthcare
Systems Bureau will sponsor this Washington, D.C., meeting of the
advisory committee, which counsels HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson
on all aspects of organ donation, procurement, transplantation,
and ways to maximize Federal efforts to increase living and deceased
donation nationally. Contact: Sherry Whipple, 301-443-2764.
“Clinical
Demonstration Sites on Prevention with HIV-Infected Persons Seen
in Primary Care Settings Initiative” Grantee Meeting, November 4-5
HRSA's HIV/AIDS
Bureau will host this Washington, D.C., grantee meeting focusing
on the initiative’s goal to implement and evaluate prevention interventions
with HIV-infected individuals seen in primary care settings. Grantees
will convene to discuss progress on the implementation of their
interventions, address barriers, examine lessons learned, explore
refinements, and discuss data collection and evaluation of their
models. Contact: Faye Malitz, 301-443-3259.
HRSA and
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Conference, November
8-9
This Rockville,
Md., conference, co-sponsored by HRSA and the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, will address practitioner monitoring roles,
responsibilities of physician practice groups and managed care organizations,
under-reporting by health plans to HRSA’s National Practitioner
Data Bank, and the negative impact this has on patient safety. Contact:
Catherine Kuchinsky, 301-443-0703.
Rural Health
Quality Leadership Summit, November 8-9
HRSA's Office
of Rural Health Policy, with assistance from the Rural Health Resource
Center, is sponsoring this second annual event in Arlington, Va.,
to discuss quality improvements in service delivery and the role
of rural health leaders. Contact: Forrest Calico, 301-443-0614.
Public Health
Training Center (PHTC) All-Grantee Meeting, November 10
HRSA's Bureau
of Health Professions is the sponsor of this Washington, D.C., meeting
of 14 PHTC grantees, who are charged with improving the nation’s
public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific,
managerial, and leadership competence of the current and future
public health workforce. Contact: John Kress, 301-443-1648.
National
Advisory Council on Migrant Health Meeting, November 17-18
HRSA’s Bureau
of Primary Health Care will host this event in Denver, held in conjunction
with the Nov. 18-20 Midwest Migrant Stream Forum. The Council meets
three times a year to develop annual recommendations for the Secretary
on issues impacting migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.
Contact: Gladys Cate, 301, 594-0367.
“Models
of Peer Support for Caribbeans Living in the United States Initiative”
Grantee Meeting, November 18-19
HRSA's HIV/AIDS
Bureau will host this Miami, Fla., grantee meeting in Miami to report
on the initial implementation of peer model interventions targeting
HIV-positive Caribbeans living in the United States. Grantees will
report on baseline enrollment and data collection, and plan for
future multi-site evaluation activities. Contact: Kathleen Handley,
301-443-8109.
Midwest
Migrant Stream Forum, November 18-20
The National
Center for Farmworker Health will conduct this Denver, Colo., event
funded in part by HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Health Care. The forum
will focus on cultural competence of migrant health providers and
creating networking and collaboration opportunities. Contact: Gladys
Cate, 301-594-0367.
2004
HRSA Exhibit Plan
Congress
on Healthcare Management
March 1-4
Chicago
Contact: www.ache.org
National
Farmworker Health Conference
April 30 - May 1
Miami
Contact: http://www.nachc.org/ela/listing.asp
National
Women's Health Week Events
May 10-14
Rockville, Md.
National
Rural Health Association Annual Meeting
May 27-29
San Diego
Contact: http://www.nrharural.org/pagefile/NRHAconf.htm
Health Services
Research Meeting
June 6-8
San Diego
Contact: http://www.academyhealth.org/conferences/arm.htm
American
Academy of Nurse Practitioners Conference
June 11-16
New Orleans
Contact: http://www.aanp.org/default.asp
Association
of Organ Procurement Organizations Meeting
June 16-18
Chicago
Contact: http://www.aopo.org/aopo/
HRSA Health
Care for the Homeless Conference
June 17-19
New Orleans
Contact: http://bphc.hrsa.gov/hchirc/conference/default.asp
American
Nurses Association Convention
June 26-29
Minneapolis
Contact: http://www.ana.org/convention/
National
Council of LaRaza Conference
June 26-29
Phoenix
Contact: http://phoenix2004.wms.cdgsolutions.com/
National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
July 10-15
Philadelphia
Contact: www.naacp.org
XV International
AIDS Conference
July 11-16
Bangkok, Thailand
Contact: www.aids2004.org
American
Academy of Family Physicians
July 28-31
Kansas City
Contact: http://www.aafp.org/x16341.xml
National
Medical Association Convention and Scientific Assembly
July 31-Aug. 5
San Diego
Contact: http://www.nmanet.org/Conferences_National.htm
Ryan White
CARE Act Grantee Meeting
Aug. 23-26
Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://hab.hrsa.gov/
National
Association of Community Health Centers Convention and Community
Health Institute
Sept. 19-21
San Francisco
Contact: http://www.nachc.org/ela/listing.asp
American
Dental Association Conference
Oct. 1-3
Orlando, FL
Contact: www.ada.org
National
Congress of American Indians
Oct. 10-15
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Contact: www.ncai.org
American
Academy of Pediatrics Conference
Oct. 9-13
San Francisco
Contact: http://aap.org
American
College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly
Oct. 17-20
San Francisco
Contact: http://www.acep.org/1,4620,0.html
U.S. Conference
on AIDS
Oct. 21-24
Philadelphia
Contact: www.nmac.org
American
Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Nov. 6-10
Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.apha.org/meetings
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