BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20030406T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20031026T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20040404T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20041031T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20050403T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20051030T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20040716T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T163514Z CREATED:20231025T161620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163514Z UID:24011-1089939600-1405558800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference DESCRIPTION: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. Instead of marketing almost exclusively to employers\, the ACA has forced insurers to focus on enrolling consumers. The conference is sponsored by Employee Benefit News. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/private-healthcare-exchanges-conference/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140514T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160026Z CREATED:20231025T161452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160026Z UID:23979-1400029200-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Inequalities Research Network Conference DESCRIPTION:The conference is a part of the ESRC/NIH funded US-UK Comparison of Discrimination & Disparities in Health & Health Service Use study and will feature Dr. David Williams as the keynote speaker. \nHERON is an international network founded in 2010. It aims to develop and promote the interaction of health practitioners and researchers with community members and representatives to enable a more collaborative approach to action and research in inequalities in health and health service use at national and community levels. \nHERON Conference 2014\nTickets are free but there are a limited number of admissions available. \nPresentations are expected on themes within health inequalities research: \n• Comparing community/local data with national disparities \n• Public involvement/engagement in research \n• Cross-country comparative studies \n• Life-course epidemiology \n• Physical and mental health co-morbidity \n• Neighborhood contexts \n• Structural discrimination and health \n• Minority stress and health \n• Young people’s health \n• Migrant health \n• Health service use URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-inequalities-research-network-conference/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140514T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160025Z CREATED:20231025T161527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160025Z UID:23994-1400029200-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:National Minority Research Symposium on Tobacco & Addictions DESCRIPTION:This symposium serves as a platform for the exchange of best practices\, knowledge and resources regarding the prevention of tobacco use and other addictive substances within minority communities. It aims to bring together a broad range of participants. Abstracts from research and/or practice-orientated projects from community members or organizations are welcome. \nTopics will relate to reduction of tobacco and other addictive substances within minority communities\, including: \n\n\nCollaborative partnerships for addressing tobacco prevention among youth \n\n\nThe use of social media and/or technology to promote tobacco cessation \n\n\nInterventions in which specific strategies for promoting tobacco use cessation\, preventing tobacco use initiation\, and eliminating exposure to second-hand smoke among minority males are especially encouraged \n\n\nInterventions that address tobacco-related disparities among population groups through community-based participatory research \n\n\nPolicy changes that impact laws\, ordinances\, resolutions\, mandates\, regulations\, or rules (both formal and informal) \n\n\nTobacco\, alcohol and/or substance use reduction programs tailored for underserved\, marginalized\, and vulnerable populations \n\n\nEnvironmental approaches for reducing tobacco related health disparities \n\n\nSurveillance of smoking \n\n\nThe impact of smoking and chronic and/or infectious diseases \n\n\nVisit the Minority Research Center on Tobacco & Addictions for more information. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/national-minority-research-symposium-on-tobacco-addictions/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140514T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140516T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160024Z CREATED:20231025T161542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160024Z UID:24000-1400029200-1400202000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:National Health Insurance Exchange Summit DESCRIPTION:The  The National Health Insurance Exchange Summit will take place May 14-16 in Washington\, D.C. \nKeynote speakers include: \n\nHenry J. Aaron\, senior fellow\, Economic Studies; Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair at the Brookings Institution \nJonathon Gruber\, Ph.D.\, professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research\n\nThe event will be broadcast live and the presentations will be available online for six months following the event. \nYou may request a press pass by emailing registration@hcconferences.com or calling 800-503-9528.  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/national-health-insurance-exchange-summit/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140514T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140516T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160023Z CREATED:20231025T161621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160023Z UID:24013-1400029200-1400202000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Heritage & Healthy Societies DESCRIPTION:The conference will explore the relationship between heritage and three interrelated aspects of sustainability and wellbeing. They include: \n\nHeritage and environment: How can heritage be brought to bear on the problems of environmental sustainability\, including changing ecosystems\, food security\, and dwindling energy resources?\n\n\nHeritage and resilience: How does the past affect issues of social sustainability\, including community adaptability\, cohesion and identity?\n\n\nHeritage and wellness: How do cases of historical trauma and the processes of continuity and memory relate to physical and mental health of individuals and society?\n\nVisit the University of Massachusetts website for details and registration. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/heritage-healthy-societies/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160022Z CREATED:20231103T154858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160022Z UID:25954-1400115600-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Getting dental care to elders in nursing homes DESCRIPTION:Archived recording\nSee a recording of this webcast. \nSpeakers’ presentations\nJudith Jones\, D.D.S. \nGregory J. Folse\, D.D.S. \nBeth Truett \nResources\nState of Decay: A national report card on the oral health of elders from Oral Health America \nTooth Wisdom: Oral health resources for seniors from Oral Health America \nSpecial Care Dentistry Association \nADA resource covers use of incurred medical expense option to cover dental care costs \nOral Health: Resources in AHCJ’s core topic area \n\nNoon ET\, May 15Although more national research is needed to understand the full extent of the problem\, studies show that seniors in nursing homes often go without dental care. \nThe lack of care can take a devastating toll on health and quality of life and impacts seniors who have their natural teeth as well as those who don’t. Our panel of experts will take a look at the need for oral health services in nursing homes and some steps that are being taken to get this care to patients. \nThe speakers \n\n\nAs president of Outreach Dentistry\, Gregory J. Folse\, D.D.S.\, maintains a mobile\, geriatric dental practice in Lafayette\, Louisiana\, a comprehensive school-based dental practice throughout Louisiana\, and lectures extensively. Nationally\, he was instrumental in writing the oral health section of the Minimum Data Set found in every facility residents’ chart\, training state nursing facility surveyors through CMS and trained the Gold Standard Nurses for facility oral health compliance. \n\n\nJudith Jones\, D.D.S.\, is a spokesperson for the American Dental Association\, a member of the national Elder Care Advisory committee and serves on the Journal of the American Dental Association editorial board and on the American Board of Dental Public Health. She is professor and assistant dean for faculty development and director of the Center for Clinical Research at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. She has organized and led conferences focused on disparities in access to and outcomes of care for elders. Her research interests include geriatric oral health and the relationships between systemic health\, oral health and quality of life. \n\n\nBeth Truett is president and chief executive officer of Oral Health America. Last fall\, Oral Health America\, a national non-profit organization\, released a national report card on the oral health of elders called State of Decay  that highlighted serious needs in many states. Truett will offer insights about the barriers many seniors face to getting dental care both at home and in institutions\, as well as the health impacts that can result from a lack of dental care. \n\n\nMary Otto\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on oral health\, will moderate the discussion and take questions from participants. \n\n\n \n \nGregory Folse \nJudith Jones \nBeth Truett \nMary Otto URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/getting-dental-care-to-elders-in-nursing-homes/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T154455Z CREATED:20231103T154925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T154455Z UID:25957-1400115600-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:A Clearer View: Can Price Transparency Save $100 Billion in Healthcare? DESCRIPTION:Researchers will release a new analysis from the West Health Policy Center that estimates that more price transparency in health care could be a source of more than $100 billion in savings over 10 years. \nThe researchers include Paul B. Ginsburg\, Ph.D.\, the former president of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) who is now a professor at the University of Southern California\, and Chapin White\, PhD\, a former senior researcher at HSC who is now at the RAND Corporation. Journalists can attend in person or online and can register here. AHCJ board member Scott Hensley will moderate the discussion. \nDate & time: \nMay 15\, 7:30-9:45 am EDT. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/a-clearer-view-can-price-transparency-save-100-billion-in-healthcare/ CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160022Z CREATED:20231103T154937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160022Z UID:25964-1400115600-1400115600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:EBRI Policy Forum: 'Crisis' Management: Uncertainty and the Workplace DESCRIPTION:This is the 74th policy forum held by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute\, and will feature several panels of nationally recognized experts.  \nThey will discuss such subjects as: \n\nNever Let a (Retirement) Crisis Go to Waste: What’s Broken\, What’s Not\, and What to Do About It (or Not).  \nBe Careful What You Wish For: The Impact of the ACA on Employment-Based Health Benefits.\nHealthy\, Wealthy\, and Why – In the Midst of Uncertainty\, Can Financial Wellness Work?\n\nSee the agenda.  \nThose wishing to attend this free event may do so at the offices of Arnold & Porter. The forum will be live webcast by the International Federation of Employee Benefit Plans. \nDate & time:  \nThursday\, May 15\, 2014\, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.\, ET \nPlace:        \nArnold & Porter555 Twelfth Street\, NWWashington\, DC 20004 \nRegister at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EBRIPF74. Click here for the webcast\, starting at 9 a.m. ET on May 15. \nContact:       \nNevin Adams\, EBRI (agenda): 202/775-63219\, nadams@ebri.org David Smith\, EBRI (logistics): 202/57207422\, smith@ebri.org URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ebri-policy-forum-crisis-management-uncertainty-and-the-workplace/ CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140517T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160021Z CREATED:20231025T161600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160021Z UID:24008-1400115600-1400288400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting 2014 DESCRIPTION:This multidisciplinary conference features the latest information on clinical care\, aging research\, and innovative models of care delivery. This is a great opportunity for geriatrics professionals to update their knowledge and skills through state-of-the-art educational sessions and research presentations. \nCheck out the conference website for more information\, or contact Jillian Akavan at 212-308-1414 (ext 329)\, or jakavan@americangeriatrics.org. Submit this form for media registration.  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/american-geriatrics-society-annual-meeting-2014/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR