American Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2nd Global Summit
Occupational Health Nursing Across Borders: Practice, Protection, and Productivity
May 4-5, 2014 Dallas, Texas
Preconference May 3-5, 2014
Contact
AAOHN National Office
7794 Grow Drive, Pensacola, FL 32514
Phone: (800) 241-8014 | Fax: (850) 484-8762
www.aaohn.org | aaohn@dancyamc.com
Accelerating Translational Neurotechnology: Fourth Annual Aspen Brain Forum
September 18 - 20, 2013 Aspen Meadows Resort
Presented by The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation, Science Translational Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences
Neurotechnology encompasses electrical, chemical, and medical devices and products that can interact with or intervene in the activity of the central nervous system. These technologies include neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, neuroimaging, optogenetics, neuromodulation, and neural stem cell therapies. Translating neurotechnologies from the laboratory into clinical and commercial products has been an arduous process. Yet many of these new tools show great potential to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders including depression, pain, headache, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury.
Through a series of plenary sessions, panel discussions, and interactive breakout groups, this 2.5-day international conference shall explore innovative scientific, clinical, and organizational models for advancing the translation of neuroscience research into technology that can dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease. Participants will also examine the ethical and regulatory challenges in translating neuroscience research, and the potential economic impact of their clinical application.
This conference includes a breakout session. During registration, you will be asked to choose a work group based on your area/disease of interest. Please pick your first and second choices for this session. You may also write in an alternate topic. We will create additional groups if there is sufficient interest. Registrants will receive an email with work group details several weeks prior to the conference.
Choices include: Parkinson's Disease, Major Depression and other Mood Disorders, Chronic Pain, Alzheimer's Disease, or Traumatic Brain Injury.
7th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery
February 20-22, 2014 Singapore
The 7th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery (ICGS), will be held in Singapore, from February 20-22, 2014. Over the last 12 years, the ICGS has become synonymous with the highest caliber scientific meeting in the field of Glaucoma.
We are expecting around 1000, including the virtual who’s who of the world of glaucoma: a multinational cast of key glaucoma leaders, premier guest speakers, and corporate representatives from all glaucoma-related fields. Our target audience includes glaucoma specialists, general ophthalmologists, and related professionals from all over the world.
The world of glaucoma surgery is evolving at a dynamic pace that requires harmonization with research, technological advances, device innovations, and technical refinements in the surgical management of glaucoma. With laser and surgical therapy being the prime focus, the ICGS also endeavors to incorporate all aspects of glaucoma care, including epidemiology, diagnostics and medical therapy in order to be increasingly relevant to the glaucoma practitioner and researcher. This unique scientific meeting generates great enthusiasm and is renowned for garnering wide spread interest and enrolment.
Altered Consciousness in Relation to Popular Culture
16-17 November 2013 Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
This meeting will explore the theme of altered consciousness in relation to popular culture, psychology, philosophy, religion, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980.
Many literary and popular authors and performers during the mid twentieth century represented altered states of consciousness in their work, responding to and participating in research relating to such topics as interplanetary contact, ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind-altering drugs, psychic therapies, spiritualisms, shamanism, erotics, conversion, revivals, somnambulism, precognition, distraction, group mind, multiple personality, hypnotism, lucid dreaming, Vedanta, hysteria and automatism.
What was the continuing legacy of nineteenth-century approaches to mind and spirit? How did work at the fringes of psychiatry and psychology intersect with mind sciences that consolidated their authority during the mid-twentieth century? What are the key interactions between European, North American and non-Western sources? How did investigations cross the borders between arts, sciences, religion, education and the military?
This event is generously supported by: the British Society for the History of Science, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Centre for the History of the Emotions, and the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.
Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury
The IBIA International Scientific Planning Committee and National Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 19 - 22, 2014, San Francisco, California.
The IBIA World Congress is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of physicians, psychologists and neuropsychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury.
The Tenth World Congress program will feature internationally recognized invited speakers, platform lectures, workshops, short oral presentations and poster sessions. The theme of the congress will be Neurotrauma, Technology, and Neurorehabilitation.
The aim of the Tenth World Congress is to provide an opportunity for establishing collegial relationships with international professionals focused on the care and/or service of persons with acquired brain injury and/or the science of brain injury research. State of the art research will be presented dealing with information spanning from basic science to clinical (coma to community) aspects of brain injury.
Finally, the Congress seeks to provide didactic opportunities for clinicians interested in advancing their knowledge in brain injury science, medicine and care. The official language of the Congress is English, and sessions are open to all delegates registering to attend the event.
International Conference on Natural Products and Health--NPH 2013
September 5-7, 2013 School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
NPH 2013 aims to bring together scientists and clinicians from academia, industry, hospitals and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions and therapeutic targets in natural products, drug discovery and medicine. The conference will be taking place on September 5-7, 2013 at the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore.
With its unique focus and format, the conference provides participants updated information on the most recent and exciting developments in the field of natural products and health. It will examine current practices and advances of promising new generation of small molecules, peptides and protein biologics from plants and animals. Their impact on western and eastern medicine and healthcare will also be determined in the conference.
The NPH2013 is designed to stimulate the creation, discussion and exploration of innovative and inspirational research topics in food science, drug discovery, medicine, natural products and health.
Contact us
School of Biological Sciences
Divison of Structural Biology and Biochemistry
SBS-03S-74, Nanyang Technological University,
60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637551
Phone: (65) 6316 7042
Email: nph2013@ntu.edu.sg
Dermatology Nurses' Association 32nd Annual Convention
May 1 - 4, 2014 Orlando, Florida
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners 35th Annual Conference on Pediatric Health Care
The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners is pleased to invite you to the 35th Annual Conference that will be held on March 11-14, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts.
NGS 2013 Manchester: Applications & Bottlenecks
5th – 6th November 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom
The aim of our NGS conferences is to address key issues being faced by laboratories that are implementing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) into their workflows. Whilst NGS is a very powerful technology that holds the promise of unlocking the secrets of DNA sequences on a large scale, its implementation has not been as smooth as anticipated.
Our previous co-organized event in this area – NGS2013 Oxford Workshop & Symposium – focussed on bioinformatics, but with the current NGS conference in Manchester we want to take the theme a step further by broadening the discussion areas
Whether your laboratory is working in the area of clinical genetics, animal, plant or microbial genetics you will be aware that there are common issues that unite researchers in all of these fields when it comes to establishing workflows for NGS. These issues which have become recognized bottlenecks across all areas of NGS based research include but are not limited to Library generation, Data analysis and Data storage. Whilst these issues are now being addressed by start-up as well as established biotech companies, they are being tackled in isolation of the entire NGS workflow.
The NGS 2013 Manchester conference will bring together leading experts from widely diverse backgrounds to tackle these issues by networking, discussing the common bottlenecks and working with biotech companies to try and mitigate these issues. We strive to keep our conferences informal and create a good personal atmosphere so as to facilitate dialogue and networking amongst all participants.
The result is an NGS conference that gather researchers from Pharma, Biotech, Hospitals and Universities who are working in areas and applications that benefit each other when discussed in the context of common NGS bottlenecks. Researchers working in the areas of micro RNA’s, Exome & Genomic sequencing, NGS panels, inherited diseases, expression analysis, viral genomics to name but a few areas can now listen to each other and find effective strategies and partners that will help in ironing out the bottlenecks.
Who should attend:
1. All NGS users, researchers and students
2. Bioinformaticians
3. NHS Labs and private companies, Pharma, Biotech and Agro Companies
Geneticists interested in the latest developments of:
• Bioinformatics
• Biomarkers
• Computational Biology
• Data Analysis
• Data interpretation
• DNA Sequencing
• Genetics/Genomics
• Infectious and inherited Diseases
• Informatics
• Molecular and Cell Biology
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Next Generation Sequencing
Meanings of Madness: Critical and Creative Perspectives
Catherine Mcauley School Of Nursing And Midwifery and School Of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland in association with Critical Voices Network Ireland
13 And 14 November 2013, University College Cork, Ireland
Madness is a word that continues to invite controversy, with some perceiving it to be a derogatory term, others perceiving it as a celebration of human creativity and diversity, whilst others position themselves somewhere in the middle. This year’s conference, now in its 5th year, aims to explore these various positions by focusing on critical perspectives on the meaning of madness as a human experience and on creative responses to such an experience.
The conference offers opportunities to consider:
• Meanings of madness
• Broadening understandings of expressions of madness
• creative approaches to engaging with and responding to madness
The Conference organisers are Harry Gijbels, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.
