http://www.iddst.com/iddst2008/
In the past five years, as a leading meeting place for drug discovery in Pacific Rim Region, IDDST, initiated by BIT Life Sciences, has attracted more than 700 world renowned speakers with participants over 40,000 professionals from all over the world, including world leading scientists including 18 Nobel Prize Laureates., senior executives, entrepreneurs, investors and regulatory policy makers.

Posted: March 20th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.execcouncil.org/ExecutiveCouncil/Events/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=90
It now appears certain that healthcare reform will be high on the political agenda next year. The upcoming Presidential and Congressional elections promise to focus public and business leaders? attention on proposals to heal our ailing healthcare system. This requires more than force of will or mere innovation. Everyone would agree that the current system is unsustainable. What is the best way to change the system? Full market-based? Governmental-run system?

For New York, the stakes could not be higher.

At this private forum, you will get answers to key issues:

How much can we rely on Marketplace Forces?

What to do about Universal Coverage, Rising Health Care Costs, Gaps in Quality of Care?

What impact could Reform have on our large Academic Health Centers and Medical Schools? The Life Sciences Community? Small Businesses? Wall Street?

What Role should State and Federal Government Play in Addressing these Problems?

How could Reform Impact State and City Medicaid and other Health Expenditures?
Executive Council Members: $ 95

Non Members: $ 195

Posted: March 19th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.adaa.org
The ADAA 28th Annual Conference is the only continuing-education event dedicated exclusively to professionals interested in anxiety and comorbid disorders treatment and research. More than 700 clinicians and scientists will talk and learn about hot topics in research and clinical treatments. Choose from more than 50 seminars, symposia, and workshops offered.

The conference is open to psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, counselors, academic researchers, physicians, nurses, and others affiliated with mental health care, from students to established professionals.

In addition, there will be a three-hour education seminar for the public on Saturday, March 8.
Register online at www.adaa.org.

Posted: March 18th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.vantagemedifest.com
Third International exhibition on Medical, Healthcare, Dental, Pharmaceutical, Diagnostics, Rehabilitative Products, Hospital Equipment, Laboratory Products, Scientific Instruments, Health & Fitness, Herbal & Ayurvedics, Biotechnology and Beauty & Cosmetics being organized in Indian capital, New Delhi, bringing high level business opportunities in South and Central Asian region. This trade event will solve most of your strategic needs, as the region has huge requirements of healthcare related products and services. Medifest is a unique event offering a significant mileage to healthcare industry. The key features of the expo include Seminar & Conferences organized on the most upcoming issues in the industry. Being first in its kind, Medifest emerging as South East Asia biggest and best ever buyer-seller meet.

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Posted: March 17th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.pca.sg
This Healthcare Transformation conference with a primary care focus will be a first in Singapore, which provides a platform for international and local speakers to share their expertise, experiences and challenges in healthcare transformation in their countries. This will be especially impactful and relevant as countries around the world are reviewing their healthcare systems to make them more efficient and cost-effective.
Online registration is available at www.pca.sg
6 Commonwealth Lane, #06-01, GMTI Building, Singapore 149547

Posted: March 17th, 2001 under Health.
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http://worldrg.com/showConference.cfm?confCode=HW08024
Our goal is to show you exactly how to maximize the role of the physician advisor in your hospital through case studies, strategy sessions, panels and interactive workshops. Join us this March for the only annual event with 100% new content designed to improve your physician advisor?s role in managing denials, documentation, and physician behavior. This event offers a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits? for physicians and 19.5 contact hours for nurses.

Maximizing the role of the physician advisor is a collaborative project. That?s why we have gathered highly experienced Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, Physician Advisors, and Case Management leaders to show you how they work together to create successful programs at their organizations. During the sessions and networking activities, you will have many opportunities to meet the speakers as well as the other participants. We brag that our conferences help each participant to build new relationships that last well beyond the closing session.

Every session, panel, networking break, and workshop has been designed to optimize the networking experience for you. We believe very strongly that networking begins as soon as you arrive at the conference, and we do every thing that we can to help you create new relationships with everyone ? from featured speakers to other colleagues from hospitals across the country.

Fresh New Content For 2008!

+11 sessions, 2 panels, and 2 workshops led by 15 experts to provide you with the information you need to really capitalize on your physician advisor
+Identify the role that a physician advisor should play in your hospital to improve productivity, efficiency and leadership with examples from hospitals of varying sizes and geographic types
+Create a needs assessment, selection methodology and recruiting process to select the best physician advisors for your hospital
+Measure ROI to justify the role of the physician advisor in improving quality, bottom-line results and clinical collaboration
+Improve hospital-physician relationships by leveraging a physician advisor to facilitate strong communication and collaboration among all clinical and operational functions
+Identify, take action and establish accountability against disruptive physicians by leveraging strong leadership and effective policies and procedures to overcome situations
+Leverage the physician advisor to concurrently and retrospectively appeal denials, evaluate the efficiency of medical services rendered with respect to the revenue cycle continuum
+Dramatically reduce length of stay by ensuring physician advisors round with staff, review care that is ordered, communicate constantly with other attending physicians, and participate actively in discharge planning
+Leverage the physician advisor to develop and implement an educational program for changes that impact the delivery of patient care, compliance, and reimbursement
+Understand and comply with the updated JCAHO credentialing and privileging standards for 2008

2 New Workshops!

Establish Clinical Transformation: How Physician Advisors Can Manage Change While Deploying Health IT
+Presented by BearingPoint, Inc.

Improve the ROI for Physician Advisors: Ensure Complete Understanding of the Complexity of the Revenue Cycle
+Presented by McBee Associates

This conference is designed to deliver high-quality content and networking opportunities for the exchange of ideas and best practices. Your experience is our number one priority. That?s why we pledge that you will bring back home the following:
+New strategies based on the case studies presented
+New contacts made during the activities and breaks
+New strategic partners and clients developed

16 East 40th Street 5th floor

Posted: March 16th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.hsj-productivity.co.uk/homepage.asp
Two essential conferences focusing on NHS productivity

Health Service Journal brings you two one-day [#%0#2]conferences[/#%0#2] that focus on achieving productivity in the NHS. Tackling two key service areas - theatres and wards, where streamlining of services and new ways of working are all-important to improve patient flow, deliver quality care and meet waiting targets.

Posted: March 16th, 2001 under Health.
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http://iransafety.org
Dear Colleagues and Friends:

On behalf of the executive committee, I would like to invite you to participate in the first International Conference on” Industry Safety ,Occupational Health and Environment in organizations ( IOE ) which will be held on May 7-8, 2008 in Isfahan, Iran.

IOE conference aims to provide a forum for exposing the concepts that have been, or are in the process of being, developed throughout the world in Industry Safety , Occupational Health and Environment .

During the Conference, an industrial exposition will be organized in parallel in order to provide excellent opportunities for related companies to display their latest products, equipment, instruments, soft wares, publication, etc.

It is sincerely hoped that the Conference will serve the interest of the scientific communities, as well as industries and public.

I wish to extend my most sincere welcome to all participants and sponsors of the event.

Looking forward to meeting you in Isfahan in 2008

With best wishes,

Dr. Shahram Hosseinzadeh

Chairman, Executive Committee of IOE-08
TOPICS FOR PAPERS :

Industry Safety / HSE / Crisis Management / Occupational Health

Environment / Protection and Fire Fighting

Industry Safety

1) Industry Safety National and international Standards

2) Safety Policies, Procedure, Practices and Measurement

3) Work Design and Worker Health. .

4) The Human Factor in Safety

5) Safety in Multinational Organizations

6) Static Electricity Control

7) Industry Safety and Project Management

High-Risk Jobs and Populations

9) Maritime and Waterfront Safety

10) Safety and Plant Engineering & Maintenance

11) Safety and the Organizational Performance and Strategies,

12) Safety in Specific Work Sectors-Construction, Manufacturing, Transport and etc

13) The Role of Information Technology in Industry Safety

14) Controlling Dust , Silica , and Noise Exposures in Mining

15) Ergonomics

16) Warehouse & Material Handling Safety

17) Safety and Insurance

HSE

18) HSE Standards and Regulations

19) Aims and Program of HSE

20) HSE Educational & Training Programs

21) HSE Plan

22) MSDS

Crisis Management

23) Evacuation and Human Behavior Statistics, Probability, and Risk Analysis

24) Risk Management and Implementation

25) Disasters & Corporate Responsibility

26) Rescue and Emergency Response Plan and Preparedness

27) Case studies on Accidents, Near misses and Fatalities

28) Crisis Centers and Fire Stations

Occupational Health

29) Safety Executive - Roles and Responsibilities

30) Worker Control and Working Conditions

31) Recognizing Potential Violence in the Workplace

32) Accident Prevention

33) Occupational Health and Safety

34) Psychosocial predictors of occupational health and safety

35) Injury Prevention, Management and Rehabilitation

36) First Aid and Medical Care

37) OSH Information & Communication

38) Safety Educational & Training Programs

Environment

39) Environmental National and international Standards and rules

40) Environmental Accidents and disasters

41) Environmental and Work Environment Protection

42) Industrial and Environmental Hygiene

43) Hazardous Waste Operation and Emergency Response

Protection and Fire Fighting

44) Personal Protection

45) Collective Protection

46) Fabrics for Protective and Work Clothing
47) How fires start

48) Wild Land and Urban Firefighting and Rescue

49) Buildings and Constructions Fire-fighting &Protection

50) Fire Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) Clean up

51) Fireproof and Heat Resistant Materials, Equipments and Storage

52) Public Safety & Fire Protection

53) Fire Chemistry

54) Air Quality and Smoke Control and Management

55) Fames and Fire Dynamics , Ecology and Behavior

56) Fire and Explosion Hazard

57) Fie Prevention, Detection and Test Methods

58) Special Applications (explosions, Industrial Fires, Post-earthquake Fires)

59) Fire Hazard and Architecture and city planning

60) Relationship between Density and other aspects of Construction and Habitation in the Spread of Fires

61) Fire and the Effects of Climate and Seasonal Weather Patterns

62) Management of Fire

63) Impact of War in Fire Management
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Deadlines

Deadline for all abstract submission : January 15, 2008.

Authors should submit, electronically, a one page (max 2 pages) English synopsis of their paper, in MS Word format to info [ at ] iransafety [ dot ] org . For consistency please use A4 sheets, Type your abstract in not more than 300 words, using 10-point Arial font, with single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins.

Notification of acceptance of paper: by February 20, 2008.

Authors of accepted entries must be available to attend the conference and be present to discuss their submission.

Deadline for submission of full papers is March 15, 2008.

Successful abstracts that are not accompanied by the submission of a full paper and a conference registration of at least one of the authors by March 15, 2008, will be removed from the program.
Conference Format

The conference will be held over 2 days and will feature plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, 3 hours workshops and poster sessions. You are asked to indicate your preferred format and topic area of your presentation with your abstract. The Program review committee reserves the right to assign presentation format (oral or poster) at the time of abstract acceptance. Conference proceedings will be posted on the website.
Oral Presentations

Oral presentations from individuals and/or groups will be given in 20-40 minute time slots with time for questions. Presentations will be grouped by the Program Review Committee into appropriate conference themes. Accepted abstracts will require submission of a full paper in the required format by March 15, 2008.
Posters

Posters will be displayed in the Exhibit Hall and offer the opportunity to display research findings, case studies and workplace program outcomes. Any handout materials will be the responsibility of the presenter. Accepted abstracts will require submission of a full paper in the required format by March 15, 2008.
Workshops

Workshops will be Max. 3 hours in length and should focus on interactive sessions with participants, teaching skills as well as application of theory, policy discussion and review of tools and techniques. Topic of the workshop, learner objectives, brief content outline, target audience, and maximum number of participants must be identified in addition to an abstract in the submission.

Conference Language

The working language of the conference is English and Farsi .
No.8 - Building 117 - Divan beigi St.Chahar bagh bala Ave. Esfahan, IRAN

Posted: March 16th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.ietravel.com/workshops/
University of Washington School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education, University of Washington School of Nursing Office of Continuing Nursing Education and University of Washington School of Pharmacy Division of Continuing Pharmacy Education are proud to co-sponsor the Amazon Healthcare Expedition: Pharmacy from the Rainforest, Global Perspectives in Healthcare Conference, March 1-9, 2008, in Peru.

Set in one of most biologically rich and environmentally important regions on Earth, the Amazon Healthcare Expedition Conference will enable participants to learn the links between the natural environment and global health patterns and practice. Participants will begin the conference by examining the medicinal and nutritional properties of plants found in the rainforest and how they benefit the prevention and treatment of disease. The discussion will advance to the role of practicing cross-cultural medicine in resource-limited settings and how culture and environment affect disease contraction and patterns. The worldwide epidemic of malnutrition and obesity will begin to tie how environmental, geopolitical and cultural issues influence specific global health care problems. A lecture on the effects of climate change on global disease patterns will further illustrate the challenges facing health care professionals. A panel discussion linking what participants learn in the Amazon to practice-based application will conclude the program.

In addition to structured continuing education activities, participants will also have the opportunity to tour the jungle floor, to ascend to the top of the rainforest biome for a walk along the longest canopy walkway in the Western Hemisphere and to learn about the life, biodiversity and people of the Amazon through other enriched activities.

Faculty from the University of Washington will present at this conference. They include:
-Dr. Lingtak-Neander Chan, PharmD, BCNSP, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy
- Dr. Jonathan Mayer, PhD, Professor of Geography, Epidemiology and International Health and Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine Divisions of Infectious Disease and Family Medicine and School of Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Health Services
- Dr. John Potter, MD, PhD, Director, International Research, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center and Professor of Epidemiology.

Joining them will be respected ethno-botanist, James Duke, PhD, and a Wisconsin physician who gave up her U.S. practice to start and run a medical clinic in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, Dr. Linnea Smith, MD.

This program is intended for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals who care about delivering quality care to patients. However, interested parties are welcome to register.

Please join us on this amazing educational journey to the Amazon rainforest. International Expeditions, a world leader in nature travel and a pioneer in Amazon program development since 1980, is the operational partner for this program. For further information call 1-800-633-4734 or www.ietravel.com/workshops. A portion of the proceeds from the program registrations go to support the Amazon Medical Clinic.

CREDIT INFORMATION:
Continuing Pharmacy Education
The University of Washington is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACPE #070-999-08-001-L04-P

This program is approved for 11.5 contact hours (11.5 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit. To receive ACPE credit, registrants must sign-in, attend the entire conference, and complete and submit an official course evaluation form at the end of the program to receive credit. No partial ACPE credit is available. Official transcripts will be mailed to participants 2-4 weeks after the conclusion of this conference.

Continuing Medical Education
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Washington School of Medicine and The University of Washington School of Pharmacy. The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits?. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Nursing Education
Nurses: Up to 11.5 contact hours will be awarded.
The University of Washington School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

* Provider approved as a clock hour provider by the Washington State Board of Education.

* Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (#07218) for 11.5 contact hours.

Psychologists: This offering for 11.5 contact/clock hours meets the requirements for continuing education for psychologists in Washington State. The conference is co-provided by the UW School of Nursing which qualifies as a CE program sponsor under administrative code, WAC 246-924-240(1).

Social Workers and Counselors: This offering for 11.5 contact/clock hours is co-provided by the UW School of Nursing which qualifies as a Washington State CE provider sponsor under the Washington State Administrative Code, WC 246-809-610.

Box 354699

Posted: March 14th, 2001 under Health.
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http://www.virtusinternational.com/national_healthcare/index.html
The healthcare sector in the US is continuing to grow at astonishing speed. With the advent of new technologies and new procedures, running a healthcare facility today has become extremely complex.
The National Healthcare Congress aims to shed some light on the issues facing healthcare facilities,by highlighting key topic areas, with targeted think tanks,workshops,case studies and keynote presentations over a 3 day period.

There will also be a showcase of new technologies where delegates can get customized solutions from world class technology suppliers.
Single attendee $995US includes all meals, beverages, cocktails, keynote presentations, speakers, galas/reception, etc (Hotel and airfare not included)
Possibility of Sponsorship package/exhibits, workshop
615 Belmont suite 200

Posted: March 14th, 2001 under Health.
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