Conference on Healthcare Justice

AADMD INFO BLAST - FOR AADMD MEMBERS

This is an excellent conference and an excellent opportunity for AADMD members to present on the critical aspects of healthcare justice as it relates to our population. I have presented here in the past and they are a very receptive group. They do indeed need to be reminded of our efforts on behalf of our population.
Rick Rader MD, AADMD Past President

Call for Abstracts and Oral Presentations

Deadline: April 9, 2010

Make a Commitment to Healthcare Justice!

The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice, September 23-35, 2010 in Washington, DC is a one-of-a-kind event sponsored by many of the major safety-net clinician organizations across the United States. This two day event is a chance for clinicians who advocate healthcare justice to celebrate, acknowledge and highlight the work frontline clinicians do to serve disenfranchised populations in need of basic health care in our country. This conference gives clinicians theopportunity to join together and have a collective voice to make quality health care for the underserved a reality.

We are looking for abstracts for posters and 15 minute oral presentations that explore the nexus of clinical care and health justice from a clinician’s perspective. We are looking for good ideas, solutions, and outcomes that address programs, research and policies for the uninsured, underinsured, and marginalized populations in the following areas:

Clinical Practice:

·         Achieving optimal care in chronic disease management (asthma, diabetes, heart disease, HIV-AIDS, depression, etc.)

·         Breakthroughs and Breakdowns in Clinical Practice

·         Cost-effective Treatment Strategies for the Uninsured

·         Teaching Self-Management and Positive Health Behaviors

·         Compassion Fatigue and Self Care

·         Achieving Optimal and Equitable Birth Outcomes in High-Disparity Settings Infectious Diseases of Poverty – TB, Parasites

·         Providing Culturally-Relevant Care in Diverse Settings

·         Breaking Through Stigma in Behavioral Health care

Community Health:

·         Grand Rounds: Case Histories of Justice and Injustice from the Field

·         Promoting alliances between public health and primary care to improve health care outcomes.

·         Using available data to measure community health outcomes and equity

·         Building Teams: Community health Workers or Promotores

·         Grassroots community engagement to address environmental health issues (air quality, asthma, pesticides, water quality,etc.)

State and National Health Policy:

·         Radical New Ideas for Health System Reform

·         Challenges and Opportunities in Medicaid Expansion

·         When the Stimulus Dollars Run Dry . . .

·         Human Rights in Health care

·         Environmental Justice and Health care

·         Improving Incentives and Eliminating the Disincentives for Training the Health Professional Workforce we Really Need

Submission of an abstract implies a commitment to make the presentation and to register for the conference. Poster presentations will be displayed as part of 2 hour evening poster reception. The oral presentations will be grouped in panels with a discussant. All authors will be notified via email of abstract status by Friday, May 21st, 2010. Please make sure your email address is correct.

Abstracts must be limited to 250 words. Please develop your abstract off-line before accessing the online submission form. Use the spell check and word count features of your word processor to check the text of the abstract before submitting it. Learning objectives must be described (Learning objectives WILL NOT be included in the abstract text word count). Each contributed paper must be categorized under one of the topics or areas of interest described in the call for abstracts. Deadline for submitting abstracts is April 9th, 2010. Contact information for submission is as follows:

Jillian Hopewell, MPA, MA
Migrant Clinicians Network
344 Flume Street, Suite C
Chico, CA 95928
530-345-4806
jhopewell@migrantclinician.org