102nd National Medical Association Annual Convention to Commence With City-Wide Health Screenings for African Americans, Hispanics

The 102nd National Medical Association (NMA) annual convention and scientific assembly will feature a two-day comprehensive health screening for the San Diego area for African Americans and Hispanics. The two-day comprehensive health screening event will take place in San Diego, and expects to see more than 2,000 residents. The screenings will offer tests for hypertension, glaucoma, diabetes, prostate cancer, high cholesterol and other diseases that disproportionately affect African Americans and Hispanics.

The NMA's Annual Convention, entitled, "Disparities in Healthcare, Obesity, Physician Profiling, Cutting Edge Research, Medical and Scientific Reports and the latest Medical Technologies," will run from July 31 through August 5, 2004 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California,

The convention and scientific assembly will focus on issues such as obesity, the human genome, profiling of African American physicians, disparities in healthcare, spectrum of diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, resurgence of reflux of esophalgitis in African American patients and prostate cancer. Dozens of medical and scientific seminars and lectures scheduled.

Participants scheduled to address the assembly include Mark McClellan, M. D. Director of CMS; Richard Carmona, M.D. US Surgeon General; Lester Crawford, D.V.M. Acting Director of the FDA; Francis Collins, M.D., NIH, Director of the Human Genome Institute; James Gavin, M.D., Diabetes expert and President of Morehouse School of Medicine; David Satcher, M.D, former U.S. Surgeon General; Julian Haywood, M.D. world renown Cardiologist; John Nelson, M.D. President of the AMA; Daniel K. Burns, Senior Vice President, Genetics Research, GSK; U.S. Congressman John Lewis, John Marshall, son of former US Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall; Judge Mablean Ephraim; and Harry Belafonte, actor and health advocate. Diahanne Carroll, noted actress and breast cancer survivor, will address a luncheon of women physicians. Stephanie Mills, Broadway star and recording artist will perform at a benefit concert.

For additional information about the scheduled convention program, please visit www.nmanet.org or call 202-347-1895, extensions 281 and 262.