CONFERENCE LISTING
Summer Conference List
JULY 2008
NEW!Call for proposals for NACHRI and NACH “Creating Connections Conference”. Deadline July 25th.
Please see Children's Hospitals website.
NEW!AMCHP call for proposals: Launching Maternal & Child Health - Opportunities for a New Era. On line submission due by July 25, 2008.
Please see http://www.designingeventsonline.com/amchp/Abstracts/default.asp
Please send Calls for Papers and Presentations to Trish Thomas, Partnership Coordinator, at tthomas@familyvoices.org
JULY 2008
NEW! Genetic Alliance Annual Conference: Transformational Leadership July 11-13, 2008, Washington, DC.
See http://www.geneticalliance.org
NEW! Georgetown University Training Institutes New Directions to Improve Outcomes Nashville, TN. July 16-20. This conference offers an opportunity to obtain in-depth, practical information on how to develop and operate comprehensive, coordinated, community-based systems of care and how to provide high-quality, effective, clinical interventions and supports. See http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/programs/ta_center/TrainingInstitutes/TI2008/newdirections.html
NEW! Diabetes and Obesity Disparities in Healthcare Systems June 30 - July 1, 2008. NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD.
See http://www3.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/healthcaredisparities2008/
LOOKING AHEAD. . .
NEW! August 12-14 The Native American Training Institute training on “Extending our Families through Unity” Mystic Lake Hotel, Minneapolis, MN.
See www.nativeinstitute.org
August 25-28 Indian Health Service Annual Research Conference. Portland, OR
See www.ihs.gov/medicalprograms/ .
NEW! October 1-3 2008 Southwest Conference on Disability. Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
See http://cdd.unm.edu/sw_conf.
October 5-8 Seventh North American Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome (Traumatic Brain Injury). Vancouver BC. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (USA) invites you and your colleagues to become involved with our upcoming conference at the Westin Bayshore in beautiful Vancouver, BC. The conference program is designed to foster communication between the professionals and families affected by shaken baby syndrome.
See www.dontshake.org.
October 25-29 APHA (American Public Health Association) Annual Conference: Public Health without Borders.
San Diego, California
http://www.apha.org/meetings/pastfuture
November 10-11 Opening Doors-a state of the Science Conference on accessing services for CYSHCN from traditionally underserved communities
See http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/Opening%20Doors%20Conference%20Invitation.pdf.
December 5-7 23rd National Training Institute Connecting Science, Policy and Practice: Improving Outcomes for Infants and Toddlers. Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA December 5-7, 2008
See www.zerotothree.org
September 20-23 2008 CityMatCH conference, “A Life Course Perspective: Pathways for Improving Practice in Urban Maternal and Child Health (MCH)". ,Albuquerque, NM. CityMatCH Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference The CityMatCH is a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments’ maternal and child health programs and leaders representing urban communities in the US.
See www.citymatch.org
OTHER CONFERENCES OF INTEREST
International Symposium - "Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf", Date: 23 - 26 June 2008 Rochester, New York, USA, National Technical Institute for the Deaf PEN- International
http://www.mpi.nl/world/SignLang/WEB-FINAL/workshopapril07/workshopjan07.htm
http://www.abilitiesexpo.com/IAEBrandManager/v42/index.cvn
If you know of a conference that needs to be included in this list, please feel free to send it electronically to Trish Thomas, Partnership Coordinator at tthomas@familyvoices.org. Conference brochures and Calls for Papers may be mailed to the Family Voices National Office, Attn: Trish Thomas, Partnership Coordinator.
Updated 06/27/08 PLT
