More than 500 people joined us in the Windy City for a world-class program of panels, workshops, field trips and classes planned to improve journalists’ knowledge of today’s hot-button health issues. Attendees tell us they went home with story ideas, had the chance to meet sources, strengthened their reporting skills and attend breaking newsmaker events. There were plenty of opportunities to network with other journalists.

Highlights

• Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, will be this year’s keynote speaker.

Newsmaker briefings with
• Thomas Frieden, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Kathleen Sebelius, secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Jeffrey Shuren, director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration

Freelance PitchFest: Writers meet with editors and pitch story ideas

A series of sessions to help you understand health reform and explain it to your audience.

How-to sessions.