APHA 2018 starts November 10! Thousands of public health practitioners, students, scholars, and activists will descend on San Diego, CA on Saturday for our annual conference. As in previous years, your faithful co-editors will be there, live-tweeting about sessions! So be sure to follow @MedCareBloggers for real-time updates.
The program is looking great, and we are excited about many of the sessions. Here are just a few of the Medical Care Section events we’re looking forward to this year:
- Student Mentoring: Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m., Sapphire Ballroom OP – Hilton
- Health Equity Now for Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees: A special double panel session co-organized by our Health Equity Committee and the APHA Committee on Health Equity (CHEQ). Tuesday, two sessions back-to-back: 3-4:30 and 5-6:30pm, Aqua 309 – Hilton
- Student Awards: Tuesday, 5-6:30 p.m., Sapphire 410B – Hilton
- Plus panel discussions and poster sessions on healthcare quality, health equity, vulnerable populations, care delivery, utilization, financial incentives, substance abuse, care coordination, jail and prison health, veterans’ health, primary care, geographic variations, pharmaceuticals, methods, prevention, and more!
Our Section Chair, Jim Wohlleb, adds:
“Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now,” the theme of this year’s annual meeting, November 10-14 in San Diego, expresses not only interests of many abstracts submitted to the Medial Care Section and the other components this year, but also the persistent ambition of our Section since its origin 70 years ago. Over those seven decades, founders and members have explored and campaigned for comprehensive and universal, single-payer health insurance.
This will be reflected in a celebratory presentation during our annual Tuesday evening event. This year’s, “An Evening with Paul Y. Song, MD” features remarks by Dr. Song, President of Physicians for a National Health Program California, and by Cynthia Connolly, RN, PhD for her book Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America. The evening will begin with light foods and drinks.
- An Evening with… Paul Y. Song, MD, Tuesday, 6-8:30 p.m., Indigo Ballroom E – Hilton
The guest speaker at the Avedis Donabedian Quality Awards session is Michael Kanter, MD, Chief Quality Officer of The Permanente Federation, who will describe designing and implementing an ongoing management surveillance program at Southern California Kaiser Permanente.
- Donabedian Award for Healthcare Quality – Dr. Michael Kanter and Dr. Gordon Schiff: Monday, 1-2:30 p.m., Sapphire Ballroom AB – Hilton
Business meetings occur in the usual slots—Saturday and Sunday evenings and 7 AM Monday through Wednesday. Please attend as many as you can to learn what our section is doing, particularly our journal’s successes on Tuesday, and discuss future ambitions and activities. Saturday evening affords us an opportunity to get acquainted and welcome interested members with encouragement to eat at a nearby restaurant together afterwards. Sunday evening, we’ll review late news for the annual meeting and candidates for APHA offices.
For the complete program, visit the online schedule or download the mobile app!
We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting! After San Diego, watch for special posts about the meeting from student perspectives. Contact the editors if you’d like to share your thoughts before, during, or after the meeting.