Outcomes Research meetings & conferences

39th Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference

Waves of Change: Charting the Course for Gerontology Education

February 28 - March 3, 2013 St. Petersburg, Florida

The AGHE Annual Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference is the premier national forum for discussing ideas and issues in gerontological and geriatric education. Educators, clinicians, administrators, researchers, and students share their experiences, expertise, and innovations regarding teaching and learning about aging and older persons. Plan now to be part of this opportunity for professional growth and development.

Upon completion of the Annual Meeting, participants will be better able to:

Describe educational programs and models addressing gerontology and geriatric content at a variety of higher education and learner levels

Understand key educational public policy issues as they relate to funding for higher education and work force preparedness

Identify factors that facilitate gerontology and geriatric education program growth and sustainability

Utilize educational evaluation methods to document learner outcomes and program value

Compare and apply teaching materials, methods, and tools in a variety of content areas to improve their institution’s educational programs

Develop collaborative opportunities in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with national and international colleagues in the field of aging

Strengthen the learning experiences and mentoring available to students in the field of gerontology and geriatrics education

7th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium

September 6-8, 2012 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Get ready for the 7th International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium (PIFRS), September 6 - 8, 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This three-day course will focus on new discoveries and developments concerning the etiology, pathophysiology, surgical and nonsurgical therapies and outcomes-based research for intestinal failure in children. Focus areas will include the latest in medical therapies for intestinal failure, improving outcomes through multidisciplinary intestinal rehabilitation programs, and the latest in pediatric intestinal transplantation.

Who Should Attend:

The symposium is designed for pediatricians, neonatologists, transplant surgeons, gastroenterologists, pediatric surgeons, family practice physicians, nurses, dietitians, mid-level providers and parents/guardians who care for children with short bowel syndrome and small bowel intestinal transplants. All other health professionals are also welcome.

Questions? Please contact sharon.mastro@chp.edu.

International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference

The ISDS Annual Conference is the premier event dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance. This year’s theme, Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance, will highlight the importance of working together across agencies, sectors, and disciplines to improve surveillance methods and population health outcomes. The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA, December 4-5, 2012, with Pre-Conference Workshops on December 3rd.

The ISDS Conference draws professionals from a broad range of disciplines— epidemiology and computer science to mathematical modeling and health policy—to learn and contribute the latest achievements, methodologies, best practices, conceptual frameworks, and technical innovations in the rapidly evolving field of biosurveillance. This year's conference will provide fertile ground for cultivating new ideas and partnerships with roundtable discussions, panels and other opportunities to collaborate.

The scope of this conference includes all of the components, policies, methods, practices, infrastructure, research and evaluation related to timely surveillance of communicable diseases, chronic diseases and injuries. This includes notifiable conditions, adverse events and emerging/novel threats; biological, chemical, and radiological health threats; plant, animal, and food surveillance; and environmental monitoring.

DiversityRx 2013 Conference--the Eighth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

Achieving Equity in an Era of Innovation and Health System Transformation

March 11-14, 2013, Oakland, California

New partnerships between health care organizations and communities, research into improved ways to deliver care, and changes in health care policy are opening up opportunities to achieve equity and the highest quality health care for culturally diverse populations. In this time of transition, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and advocates for health equity can focus attention on implementation, participation and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities. The 2013 conference will offer participants the opportunity to hear from experts and front-line leaders about how diverse populations are affected by:

state and national reform efforts
changes to the Medicaid program
innovative technology for information management and outreach
social determinants of health
other practice and financing developments.

As always, the conference will continue to feature both established and innovative cultural and linguistic competence and disparity reduction programs and policies from across the country and abroad.

2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology

The American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the American Association of Poison Control Centers are pleased to announce that the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology 2012 and associated pre-meeting functions will be held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas located in Las Vegas, NV; October 1-6, 2012.

This annual conference allows an opportunity for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and scientists from around the world to participate in the sharing of knowledge on a wide variety of clinical toxicology topics and issues. In addition, there will be multiple original research papers presented, a number of symposia, as well as other traditional and novel continuing education sessions.

General Objectives:

-- Identify the acute and/or chronic toxic effects of various drugs, chemicals and biologicals.

-- Utilize research data to determine new approaches to the prevention, assessment, and treatment of poisoning victims.

-- Compare and contrast approaches to the treatment of poisoned patients.

-- Identify the principles of assessing the severity and predicting the outcome of poisonings.

-- Define innovations in the responsibilities and functions of poison centers.

-- Identify the principles involved in the laboratory evaluation of poisonings.

-- Identify the risks and treatment of occupational and environmental hazards to humans.

Dynamics of Preparedness Conference

October 22-24, 2012 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The University of Pittsburgh MIDAS National Center of Excellence, in cooperation with the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard School of Public Health, invite researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows to the Dynamics of Preparedness Conference in Pittsburgh, October 22–24, 2012.

Purpose: The past decade has seen unprecedented investments in research on preparedness from many sectors of government and the private sector. Numerous reports have appeared, evaluating the preparedness status of states and communities. Dynamics of Preparedness will convene researchers from diverse disciplines to present, critique, and consider the future of research on emergency preparedness in public health systems.

Dynamics describes the complex interactivity among numerous governmental, private, and voluntary components of public health systems. Systems must adapt to emergencies and disasters —both as individuals, agencies, and organizations and as system components affecting the populations served—in ways that often produce unexpected, secondary impacts. Preparedness includes prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery relevant to infectious disease outbreaks as well as other emergencies and disasters.

Goals:

Compile research on public health systems that support preparedness, specifically highlighting innovative methods and novel approaches.
Critique the rigor and quality of output from this research arena, noting the findings and insights with implications for public policy and practical application.
Catalogue the issues and problems where the evidence base for preparedness policy and practice remains weak as an agenda for future research and seek solution-focused innovations.

Dynamics of Preparedness will feature sessions in:

Data: resources for, as well as barriers and constraints upon, quantitative and qualitative research

Innovations: methodological challenges and novel multi-disciplinary approaches

Outcomes: demonstrations, observational studies, and comparisons focused on the outcomes of response to public health emergencies

Modeling: use of computational, conceptual, and mathematical modeling to explore legal frameworks, resource deployment, and operational efficiency and effectiveness under resource-constrained conditions

Progress of Research: presentation of studies on the critical themes of system sustainability, communications, workforce capabilities, and criteria and metrics and on the cross-cutting issues of legal infrastructure and special-needs populations

Translation: utility and application of research results for policy making and practice

WCN 2013 XXI World Congress of Neurology

September 21-26, 2013 Vienna, Austria

Join leading neurologists at WCN 2013, the world’s biggest neurology event. The XXI World Congress of Neurology will feature a rich scientific programme, including the latest developments in clinical practice and research, distinguished plenary speakers, teaching courses, workshops, and lectures, all on the increasingly global aspect of our work.

List of Proposed Topics

Epilepsy (Joint WFN & ILAE)
Movement Disorders
Stroke (Joint WSO & WFN)
Neuro-critical care
Dementia
MS & Demyelinating Diseases
Neuromuscular disorders
Headache
Pain
Neurorehabilitation
Neurooncology
CNS infection
Vertigo and balance disorders
Sleep
Leukoencephalopathies & Child neurology
Autoimmune encephalitis
Neurology, Health economics & outcomes
Metabolic and mitochondrial diseases
Neuroepidemiology
Environment, Climate Change
Autonomic nervous system
Neuroophthalmology
Brain & Behavior
Motor neuron disease
Channelopathies
Palliative care
Nutritional disorders & Neurotoxins
Stem cells in Neurology, hopes, uses and abuses
Neurological surgery for the neurologist
Psychiatry for the neurologist
Neuroethics
Interventional Neuroradiology
Advances in Neuroimaging
Advances in Neurophysiology
Therapeutic Neurotoxins
Biomarkers
World History of Neurology
You Tube neurology
Movies and neurology
Sports neurology
Training in neurology around the world
WHO Neurology Initiatives (Noncommunicable disease Initiative, MhGAP Program, ICD-11 revision of neurology codes)
Cases from around the world
Making the Case for Neurology

Contact Us
Please email us at wcn@kenes.com for more information or any queries.
 

2012 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention

November 15–17, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia

The ASHA Convention is the premier annual event for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Join more than 12,000 of your peers for this once-a-year opportunity at the Georgia World Congress Center from November 15–17, 2012 as we celebrate our 2012 theme, Evidence of Excellence: Opportunities and Outcomes!

4th Symposium on Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods--From Efficacy to Effectiveness

June 12-13, 2012

John M. Eisenberg Building
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Conference Center
Rockville, Maryland

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Effective Health Care program, is sponsoring a fourth symposium on original research methods for comparative effectiveness (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). The symposium and webcast will be held on June 12 and 13, 2012 at the AHRQ Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland.

The theme of the 2012 symposium is “From Efficacy to Effectiveness.” Invited experts will give podium presentations on innovative research methods to evaluate mechanisms that contribute to the differences in the results of randomized clinical trials (i.e., efficacy studies) and observational studies conducted in real world settings (i.e., outcomes and effectiveness research). The proceedings of the symposium will be published as a special journal supplement in 2013. Papers presented at past symposia were published in the journal Medical Care and the proceedings of the 2011 symposium are forthcoming soon. These AHRQ methods symposia and the associated journal supplements have become important resources for investigators to use in designing and conducting comparative effectiveness studies.

Contact: Elizabeth Robinson, BA (emrobinson@partners.org),
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD (sschneeweiss@partners.org)
John Seeger, PharmD, DrPH (jdseeger@partners.org) and/or
Scott R. Smith, PhD (scott.smith@ahrq.hhs.gov)

Third Annual International Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference

Sponsored by Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

May 31 - June 1, 2012 Kansas City, Missouri

Meeting Topics

May 31st

Nuts and bolts: Initiation and implementation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP)

June 1st

Stewardship strategies in the outpatient setting
Empiric disease specific antimicrobial utilization
Utilization of microbiology laboratory data to guide ASP decisions
International efforts involving ASPs
Useful Strategies for inpatient antimicrobial stewardship
ASP evaluation and outcome metrics

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course, healthcare professionals will be able to:

Implement and evaluate a pediatric ASP
Understand the importance of Pediatric ASPs on a global scale
Identify strategies to improve outpatient antibiotic use
Design evaluation strategies for your ASP
Identify barriers to and potential stategies to optimize ASP outcomes

Meeting Location

The meeting will occur at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO.

Interested in Meeting

Please contact Jason Newland at jnewland1@cmh.edu or Christy Phillips at cphillips@idsociety.org if you are interested in attending the meeting