The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.

The Annual Meeting & OTO Expo will be held this fall in the nation’s capitol. It is the world’s largest conference of otolaryngologists — head and neck surgeons — and researchers, educators and clinicians in head and neck medicine. This year marks the Academy’s 116th meeting.

The systems to detect and respond to infectious disease outbreaks have suffered decades of underfunding and neglect in the United States and other countries, and the global financial crisis has worsened the problem. The Institute of Medicine is hosting a two-day workshop to explore how to maintain effective infectious disease surveillance and response capacity in an age of austerity.