2008 APHA Medical Care Section Program
This year's Medical Care Section Program at the APHA Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, Oct. 25-29, 2008, consists of 37 sessions organized by the Medical Care Section and covers such topics as: drug safety and FDA reform; state and local programs to address disparities in colorectal cancer; social medicine as a framework for bridging borders; using California Health Interview Survey data to measure and understand racial and ethnic disparities; health access and the election; public health in 20th century America between inclusion and exclusion; the California Department of Corrections as a case study of whether federal receiverships cure prison healthcare issues; universal access to health insurance; health economics; health services research, health disparities in migrant and immigrant populations; quality improvement and outcomes of care; and rural and frontier health. In addition, the Section is co-sponsoring over 30 other sessions that includes topics such as trade policy, globalization, war and public health, environmental and social justice, cancer epidemiology, tobacco policy, and Social Security and Medicare. All Medical Care Section sessions will be at the San Diego Marriott Marina Hotel.
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Medical Care Section, our speakers for this year’s Evening With (cocktail reception and scientific session) will be Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, and David Himmelstein, MD, both from Harvard Medical School. Their joint talk is entitled, “From Clinicians for the Poor to National Health Insurance Mainstays: A Quarter Century Health Policy Journey. The session will be moderated by Oliver Fein, MD, Cornell Medical College, and David Rosner, Ph.D., MPH, Columbia University. Please join us in celebrating this special anniversary on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in Marriott Hall Salon 5. We will also be presenting the annual Arthur Viseltear Award in Public Health History to Emily Abel, Ph.D., UCLA, for her book on tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion.
Please also join us for the presentation of this year’s Avedis Donabedian Award in Quality Improvement to Robert Brook, Ph.D., UCLA, and director of the Health Sciences Program at RAND. Gordon Schiff, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will have the honor of presenting the award on Tuesday, October 28, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., in the Point Loma room, just prior to the “Evening With” festivities.
The link to the sessions organized and sponsored by the Medical Care Section is:
http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/techprogram/program_850.htm
The link to the Medical Care Section business meetings and social events is:
http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/techprogram/nt_850.html
See you in San Diego,
Kathy
Katherine S. Virgo
Medical Care Section Program Chair