Title: 2004 Advance Program Information
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Section/SPIG: Medical Care
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Greetings members of the Medical Care Section:
I am happy to share with you the Advance Program information for Scientific Sessions and Business Meetings that will be sponsored by the Medical Care Section at the 2004 APHA Annual Meeting (see attached file). More detailed information is available on the APHA Web site at <www.apha.org/meetings>. Please note that Medical Care Section-sponsored sessions will all be located in the Convention Center. Please check the printed or online program at the meeting for the exact room locations.
While the listing of Scientific Sessions is pretty straightforward, and we do have a very exciting program of scientific sessions, let me highlight one particular session which is a little different.
That session is the Medical Care Section Committees Roundtable Session, scheduled for Tuesday evening from 8:30 to 10 p.m., right after the "Viseltear Award and Evening With" session. There are a great many opportunities for networking and involvement through the Committees. This session is designed so that interested members of the Section can gather together to meet existing Committee leaders and members to get involved. The Committees of the Medical Care Section are: Drug Policy and Pharmacy Services; Ethnic and Racial Disparities; Health Economics; Health Services Research; History; Jail and Prison Health; Quality Improvement; Rural Health; Social Sciences in Health; Urban Health; Veterans' Health; and Women's Health. Committee members review contributed abstracts, and can help organize scientific sessions for the Annual Meeting, as well as network with each other in their area of interest throughout the year. Let me note that we do plan to have some food and beverages available for this evening session to offer you sustenance at the end of a long day.
In addition, please allow me to offer some explanations for the Business Meeting listing. There are two major categories of Committee Meetings in the Business Meeting schedule that are each named similarly, plus a couple of others that are named differently.
(1) On Sunday, there are eight Study Groups sponsored by the Committee on Health Services Research. These are listed in sequential number with the same generic name for the purposes of this preliminary program. These Study Groups are officially classified as Business Meetings, and we use them as roundtable sessions on work in progress to distinguish them from Scientific Sessions. As yet, the specific topics have not been announced because they are still being finalized.
(2) Each day during the Annual Meeting, there is a Medical Care Section Council Business Meeting, so these are also listed in sequential number with the same generic name. On Saturday and Sunday they occur in the early evening, while on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday they occur in the early morning. The agenda for each day's meeting is different based on working our way through standing reports and also based on preparing for specific events during the meeting, such as Governing Council, election of officers, and policy resolutions. The chair of the Medical Care Section (John B. Wayne, <jbwayne@ualr.edu>) sets the agendas for these meetings, and they are usually finalized shortly before the Annual Meeting in November. All active members of the Section are invited to participate in these daily Section Council Business meetings.
Finally, please note that I am recruiting for a new chair (or co-chairs) of the Committee on Health Services Research. The responsibilities include: (1) organizing reviews of contributed abstracts in the category of Health Services Research; (2) organizing scientific sessions for the presentation of contributed abstracts that are accepted; (3) organizing the "Update on Health Services Research" solicited scientific session; and (4) organizing the Sunday Study Groups. Anyone interested in getting involved in some or all of these activities, please send me an e-mail at <bruce.davidson@cshs.org> or call me. I have done this all before myself, and I will be available to assist you in "learning the ropes." Also, I'm very open to the idea of co-chairs in order to divide up the responsibilities. It's a great opportunity to both have a finger on the pulse of what's happening in the field, as well as make a much-needed and much-appreciated contribution to the Section and to APHA.
I look forward to greeting as many of you as possible during the Annual Meeting.
Best regards,
Bruce Davidson
Bruce N. Davidson, PhD, MPH
Program Chair, Medical Care Section
Acting Chair, Committee on Health Services Research, Medical Care Section
American Public Health Association
Director, Resource and Outcomes Management
Cedars-Sinai Health System
8700 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 2227
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(310) 423-6203 (voice)
bruce.davidson@cshs.org
Related Files:
APHA_MC_2004_program.pdf