Colleen Fitzgerald, M.D., medical director, Women's Health Rehabilitation program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., deputy director, Office of Research on Women's Health, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
This panel will focus on a new 10-year plan for women’s health research being prepared by the government: what it might include, where the process stands, why it’s important and implications for clinical practice. It will look at the state of women’s health and women’s health research for America’s largest minority – Latinos/Hispanics – and examine an often overlooked population, women with disabilities. Women's health research agenda: The coming decade Shuren, recently named director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, will discuss his strategic agenda for 2010.
Kathleen Sebelius, M.P.A., secretary, U.S. Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., director, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionĦ:15 p.m.
Learn more about the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture's computer application that enables clinicians to enter, review and continuously update all information connected with any patient.įinding untold health story ideas in data and maps Attendees also will visit Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, one of the most active in the Department of Veterans Affairs, and learn about the approach to veterans recently returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. You'll leave with a wealth of new information.įield trip 1 includes a mini-med school in a state-of-the art, hands-on simulation center at the Feinberg School of Medicine a visit to the Renee Schine Crown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Northwestern Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital a lunch discussion with leaders of the NUGene Project, a biobank of genetic samples and electronic health records from more than 10,000 volunteers and a trip to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's world-renowned Center for Bionic Medicine.įield trip 2 will feature a behind-the-scenes tour of its Mobile Examination Center for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with embargoed data about hypertension and diabetes. and Using data to depict the health of your local population from 3:10-5 p.m. Please join us for the Thursday afternoon sessions Tools for tracking health care costs from 1-2:50 p.m. Rooms that begin with "CC" are at the convention center.
Note: Some sessions will be held at the conference hotel, others will be at the adjoining convention center. Health Journalism 2010 will be packed with panels, classes and workshops providing story ideas, new resources and insight into the latest health issues journalists have to cover. Home > Calendar Health Journalism 2010: Detailed Schedule