Training & Events

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Calendar

Ongoing

Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference

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.

Hospice / Palliative Care Month

This observance focuses on raising awareness about care for the 1.5 million patients each year who receive care from hospices in the United States.

Covering the ACA: Researching Consumer Stories, Finding New Ideas & Securing Real World Examples

This interactive webinar for journalists will feature Kaiser Health News’ Sarah Varney and Michelle Andrews, discussing approaches to covering the story by incorporating individual examples; provide tips and techniques for digging into the details of the law to describe how its provisions play out in real life; and suggest new angles and under-reported story ideas.

Clinical Trials Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease

The 6th annual CtaD conference will relate experiences from international teams covering every stage of clinical trials in Alzheimer’s Disease. From animal models to human trials, CtaD 2013 provides an opportunity to learn about the latest results on new therapies in development, advances in fundamental research, biomarker validation, PET imaging and cognitive assessments.

Keynotes and symposia will also cover internet screening of cognition to recruit for clinical trials, designing drug trials taking into account neuropsychiatric symptoms of AD, Down syndrome and AD as well as ethical issues and methodological considerations.

Reporting Sex Trafficking: Local Problem with Global Dimensions

This free workshop is designed for professional journalists from all fields of the media to learn more about this increasingly important problem and to provide the tools and approaches necessary to recognize, understand and report sex trafficking in their communities.

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