Mark your calendar!
Dates for conferences in the year 2000
There are many reasons to attend a conference. A few of the benefits that your colleagues have mentioned are networking opportunities, ideas to improve programs, and learning about newly released research outcomes.
Following is a short list of conferences that may be beneficial to patient education managers. Because many were in the planning stages when this issue went to press, the details are not always complete, so please contact the organization directly for further information. Those conferences mentioned in the articles that are not listed will be included in Patient Education Management at a later date.
• American Society on Aging 46th Annual Meeting — March 25-29, San Diego. Cost: $240 before Feb. 25th for ASA members; $375 for nonmembers. For more information, contact: Susan Markey, Director of Marketing, ASA, 833 Market St., Suite 511, San Francisco, CA 94103. Telephone: (415) 974-9615.
• Biennial Symposium on Minorities, The Medically Underserved — Feb. 9-13, Washington, DC. Cost: $400 for physicians; $275 for health care professionals and lay people. Sponsor: Intercultural Cancer Council, Houston. For more information, contact: 7th Biennial Symposium, 1720 Dryden, PMB-C, Houston, TX 77030. Telephone: (713) 798-5383. Fax: (713) 793-3990. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: icc.bcm.tmc.edu/symposium.
• Cancer, Culture and Literacy: Future Directions for Health Education & Promotion — May 4-6, Clearwater Beach, FL. Cost information will be available after Jan. 1 on the conference Web page. Sponsor: H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center and Research Institute Education Program, Tampa, FL. For more information, contact: Susan Easter, Moffit Cancer Center Education Program. Telephone: (813) 632-1775. Fax: (813) 979-3874. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: www.moffitt.usf.edu/Promotions/ ccl.
• Health Care Educators Conference — Oct. 20-22, New Orleans. Cost: $385 for HCEA members before Sept. 1; $475 for nonmembers. Sponsor: Health Care Education Associa tion, Philadelphia. For more information, contact: Beth Miller, HCEA, 1211 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19107. Telephone: (888) 298-3861.
• Health Education by the Sea — Oct. 5-6, Otter Rock, OR. Cost: $135. For more information, contact: Loretta Glaze, North Lincoln Hospital, 3042 NE 28th St., Lincoln City, OR 97367. Telephone: (541) 996-7113. Fax: (541) 996-7219. E-mail: [email protected].
[Editor’s note: If your organization is sponsoring a conference that would benefit patient education managers and you would like to have information on the conference published in Patient Education Management, please send the information three months in advance of the conference to: Susan Cort Johnson, Editor, PEM, 9551 Butterfield Way #42, Sacramento, CA 95827. Telephone: (916) 362-0133. E-mail: [email protected].]
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