BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:19990404T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19991031T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20000402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20001029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20010401T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20011028T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T235959 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20241218T171428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241218T171436Z UID:57800-1748476800-1748822399@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2025 DESCRIPTION:Get ready to join us on the West Coast! The Association of Health Care Journalists is thrilled to announce Health Journalism 2025 will take place in Los Angeles from May 29 to June 1\, with four days of fun field trips\, inspiring sessions\, hands-on workshops and invaluable networking opportunities.  \n\n\n\n“I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in L.A.\, hopefully including a large contingent of our West Coast members and friends\,” said Felice J. Freyer\, AHCJ board president. “We try to vary our location to accommodate folks far and wide. What doesn’t vary\, though\, is the quality of the learning and networking you’ll always experience at AHCJ’s annual conference.” \n\n\n\nIn a time when the pursuit of truth and accountability is more critical than ever\, join us for a vital gathering of journalists\, health care professionals\, policymakers and experts to confront the pressing challenges and opportunities shaping health care and journalism today.   \n\n\n\nThis year’s conference will also include the 21st annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism\, which are now accepting entries. \n\n\n\nHealth Journalism 2025 will feature an inspiring lineup of keynote speakers\, hands-on workshops\, thought-provoking panel discussions\, immersive field trips\, and powerful networking opportunities. This is more than a conference – it’s a platform to strengthen your reporting\, amplify underrepresented voices and explore the vital intersections of health\, equity and policy in a rapidly evolving landscape. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/training-events/health-journalism-2025/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://healthjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Los-Angeles-HJ25-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T235959 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231129T221905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T222118Z UID:49427-1717632000-1717977599@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2024 DESCRIPTION:The Association of Health Care Journalists will hold its annual Health Journalism Conference from June 6-9\, 2024\, bringing together hundreds of journalists across the U.S. in midtown New York City. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/training-events/health-journalism-conference-2024/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T162337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T151719Z UID:24429-1651107600-1651366800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHCJ conference in Austin\, April 28-May 1 DESCRIPTION:Conference home\nPreliminary program\n \nRegistration rates\nHotel\n\n\nExhibit or advertise\nExhibitors\nCOVID-19\nFellowships\n\n\n\n\n\nChiquita Brooks-LaSure\, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)\, will be the featured keynote speaker at Health Journalism 2022 in Austin. \nThe conference will be held April 28-May 1 at the Hilton Austin. The hotel is attached to the Austin Convention Center via a covered walkway — two blocks from East Sixth Street nightlife and less than a mile from the picturesque Rainey Street Historic District. \nAs the leader of CMS\, Brooks-LaSure plays a key role in shaping the federal response to some of the nation’s most pressing issues in health care\, including the continuing response to the pandemic. Addressing health inequities has also been at the top of her priority list. In her testimony tothe Senate Finance Committee in April 2021\, Brooks-LaSure — the first Black woman to lead CMS — emphasized the need to “expand access to quality care for all communities.” \nTwo field trips were being planned to sites in Austin where innovations are happening in research\, clinical and community environments\, including: \n\n\nThe VISLAB at the Texas Advanced Computing Center\, University of Texas\, which creates visualizations to support research and presents them on one of the world’s largest high-resolution tiled displays. \n\n\nCommunity First! Village\, a 51-acre master planned\, innovative model community that provides affordable\, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. A development of Mobile Loaves & Fishes\, this transformative residential program exists to love and serve people who have been living on the streets\, while also empowering the surrounding community into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. \n\n\nA collaborative treatment center at Dell Medical Center that illustrates how thoughtful design can change the patient experience. \n\n\nA visit to the biomedical/biomechanical lab of Dr. James Sulzer at UT-Austin (recently profiled in The Atlantic magazine) where he and his team attempt to fill knowledge gaps related to stroke recovery and the development of new rehabilitation strategies. \n\n\nLone Star Circle of Care in Taylor\, Texas\, a community anchor and health hub that attempts to move as far upstream in the social determinants of health “river” as possible and create access to care for families along the continuum – from birth to older adults. \n\n\nField trips and workshops will be followed by a newcomer session\, a kickoff plenary session\, and a “Welcome to Austin” reception. \nPanels\, popular events and new features \nThis three-and-a-half-day conference will be packed with panels and workshops led by journalists and world-class speakers about a wide range of topics including: \n\n\nNew abortion laws and their likely impact on women’s reproductive health \n\n\nThe future of public health and pandemics – are we any better off today than we were in March 2020? \n\n\nAn extensive look at patient safety 10 years after the infamous “Dr. Death” case \n\n\nHow to cover the LGBTQ community \n\n\nHow research in medical science has been affected in some positive ways by the pandemic \n\n\nReframing gun violence as a public health issue \n\n\nThe quest for COVID-19 data: Where “official sources” fell short and others stepped in \n\n\nThe sex gap: How male-centric medicine hurts everyone \n\n\nHow to help your readers understand the “information blocking” rule and how it relates to patient safety \n\n\nHospital ransomware attacks: Why they’re happening and what can be done about them \n\n\nThe climate crisis\, public health and deepening inequities \n\n\nHow to track “dark money” from Big Pharma. \n\n\nThe conference exhibit hall opens Friday\, April 29\, creating informal networking opportunities for attendees and the chance to win prizes. PitchFest — a conference favorite — will take place that afternoon. As always\, attendees will be able to pitch story ideas to editors and walk away with assignments. AHCJ’s annual membership meeting is set for early evening on Friday. \nSaturday\, April 30\, the final full day of the conference\, will include several “how-to” sessions and the awards luncheon\, which celebrates the best health care reporting. \nOn Sunday morning\, May 1\, after a session on reporter self-care\, AHCJ core topic leader for infectious diseases Bara Vaida will lead a yoga session\, so bring your mat and wind down before you head home. \nRegistrants unable to attend the conference in person will have access to some live-streamed events and sessions via the Whova app including\, the opening night plenary session\, the membership meeting\, the awards luncheon and 10 panel discussions. \n\n\n\n\n\nCall for ideas\nAHCJ is gathering ideas for conference workshops and panels. Please submit suggestions before March 19. \nClick here for your opportunity to submit ideas for consideration. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\nSponsorship team\n \nHosts\nUniversity of Texas Dell Medical School \nMeadows Mental Health Policy Institute \nSt. David’s Foundation \nArnold Ventures \n\nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n\nSponsors\nThe Commonwealth Fund \nEpiscopal Health Foundation \nThe Kresge Foundation \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \nMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Care Foundation of Western & Central New York \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nColorado Health Foundation \nRhode Island Foundation \nThe JAMA Network \nMillbank Memorial Fund \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund \n  \n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-conference-in-austin-april-28-may-1/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211031T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T162232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T151741Z UID:24381-1635382800-1635642000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2021 postponed DESCRIPTION:Conference home\nRegistration\nHotel\n\n\n\nAHCJ staff have been monitoring the emergence and spread of the Delta variant closely over the last few weeks. With the guidance of the board of directors\, we have made the difficult decision to once again postpone our in-person annual conference scheduled for October 28-31 in Austin. While we were planning to offer some conference sessions virtually\, recent COVID-19 developments have made it unwise to ask our members to travel for an in-person meeting. \nA little over a month ago we were optimistic about vaccinations and excited to gather in person\, and we had great planning meetings on-site in Austin just a few weeks ago. We are still committed to bringing the annual conference to Austin and are working hard to find appropriate dates to gather in 2022. \nContinue reading → \n  \nPhoto: Rob Stalnaker via Flickr \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nCall for ideas\nAHCJ is gathering ideas for conference workshops and panels. Please submit suggestions before March 19. \nClick here for your opportunity to submit ideas for consideration. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\nSponsorship team\n \nHosts\nUniversity of Texas Dell Medical School \nMeadows Mental Health Policy Institute \nSt. David’s Foundation \nArnold Ventures \n\nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n\nSponsors\nThe Commonwealth Fund \nEpiscopal Health Foundation \nThe Kresge Foundation \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \nMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Care Foundation of Western & Central New York \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nColorado Health Foundation \nRhode Island Foundation \nThe JAMA Network \nMillbank Memorial Fund \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund \n  \n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2021-postponed/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231103T175549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T153638Z UID:26630-1588467600-1588467600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Opioid epidemic and the rise of infectious diseases DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion at 10:40 a.m.\, led by infectious diseases core topic leader Bara Vaida will be on the agenda for Health Journalism 2020. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/opioid-epidemic-and-the-rise-of-infectious-diseases/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T162156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155114Z UID:24346-1588208400-1588467600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2020 postponed DESCRIPTION:Conference home\n \nRegistration\n \nHotel\n \nCOVID-19 (Coronavirus)\n\n\n\n\nDue to safety concerns and travel limitations related to the COVID 19 pandemic\, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists was canceled. Health Journalism 2020 was scheduled for April 30-May 3. \nHealth Journalism 2021 will be in Austin\, June 24-27\, at the Hilton. \nRegistrations for Health Journalism 2020 will be honored for Health Journalism 2021. \n \n \nPhoto: Rob Stalnaker via Flickr \n\nSponsorship team\n \nHosts\nUniversity of Texas Dell Medical School \nMeadows Mental Health Policy Institute \nSt. David’s Foundation \nArnold Ventures \n \nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n\nSponsors\nThe Commonwealth Fund \nEpiscopal Health Foundation \nThe Kresge Foundation \nOffice on Women’s Health \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research \nJohn A. Hartford Foundation \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Care Foundation of Western & Central New York \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nColorado Health Foundation \nRhode Island Foundation \nThe JAMA Network \nMillbank Memorial Fund \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2020-postponed/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T162104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161143Z UID:24284-1556758800-1557018000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2019 DESCRIPTION:Conference coverage\nPresentations\n\n \n\nConference home\nRegistration\nFreelance Pitchfest\n\n\nProgram\nField trips\nHotel\nShare a room or ride\n\n\n2019 exhibitors\nExhibit or advertise\nFellowships\n\n\nGetting there\nOrioles tickets\nDining guide\nThings to do\n\n\n \n\nNotable speakers include:\nOtis Brawley\, M.D.\, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor\, Johns Hopkins University \nRebecca Dineen\, assistant commissioner\, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health\, Baltimore City Health Department \nAdriana Beach\, corporate counsel for privacy\, 23andMe \nLinda Goler Blount\, M.P.H.\, president and CEO\, Black Women’s Health Imperative \nMei W. Kwong\, J.D.\, executive director\, Center for Connected Health Policy\, The National Telehealth Policy Resource Center \nJoshua M. Sharfstein\, M.D.\, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement\, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \n \n  \n\nPanels\nSee the packed daily lineups! \nField trips\nEducational tours of nearby research\, clinical and teaching facilities. \nWorkshops\nLearn how to better report on medical studies or get your hands on public records\, get editors’ attention for your freelance pitches or get a primer on genetics. \nFreelance PitchFest\nRegistration underway for short pitch meetings with assigning editors from some of the top magazines\, newspapers and websites. \nAwards luncheon\nShare the pride at the annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. \nReceptions\nGet to know fellow conference attendees at our Welcome to Baltimore Reception after the Thursday kickoff session and enjoy the informal comradery of a Saturday tailgating reception outside the gates to the Camden Yards baseball stadium. \nDrawings\nJoin us in the Exhibit Hall for desserts\, snacks and great AHCJ prize giveaways. \nMembership meeting\nCome hear about AHCJ’s latest efforts from your elected board. \nParticipate on Twitter\nTweet about the conference using #AHCJ19 and using the special hashtag that will be designated for each panel on the conference schedule. \nSmile!\nIntroducing Head Shot Station. We are excited to offer this year’s conference attendees an opportunity to have a professional head shot taken for their personal or business use. We have arranged with a local photography studio to set up a mini-photo studio in the exhibit hall on Friday morning of the conference. All professionals need a good photo of themselves\, of course\, but an opportunity like this can be especially valuable to freelancers who can’t turn to an in-house photographer when photos are requested. \nSittings on your own would normally cost hundreds of dollars\, but we will be charging just a $10 sitting fee at the conference registration desk for those who want to take advantage. Shots will take just a few minutes and you’ll be able to choose your background. Available sittings will be limited\, so you’ll want to inquire at the registration desk when you check in for the conference. \nHere are details about how the Head Shot Station will work. \n  \nPhoto: Adnan Islam \n \n\nSponsorship team\n \nHosts\nJohns Hopkins University \nJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \nJohns Hopkins School of Nursing \nJohns Hopkins Medicine \n \nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n \nSponsors\nUniversity of Maryland Medicine \nThe Baltimore Sun \nThe Commonwealth Fund \nMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nIvy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute \nOffice on Women’s Health \nArnold Ventures \nBloomberg Philanthropies \nJohn A. Hartford Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nColorado Health Foundation \nKansas Health Foundation \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Foundation for Western & Central New York \nRhode Island Foundation \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nThe JAMA Network \nNemours Children’s Health System \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund \nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2019/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180415T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T162011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155515Z UID:24235-1523494800-1523754000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2018 DESCRIPTION:Presentations\nConference coverage\n\n \n\nConference home\n\n\nProgram\nField trips\nRegistration\nHotel\n\n\nFreelance PitchFest\n2018 Exhibitors\nExhibit or advertise\nFellowships\n\n\nThings to do\nShare a room or ride\nGetting there\n\n\nThank you for attending!\n\n\n\n\nCall for ideas\nAHCJ is gathering ideas for conference workshops and panels. Please submit suggestions before Oct. 9. \nClick here for your opportunity to submit ideas for consideration. \n\n\n\n\nAHCJ celebrates 20 years with conference in the desert\nMore than 700 people attended the world’s premier training event for journalists interested in covering health care\, medical  research\, public health issues\, consumer health\, ethics and the business of health care. \nHealth Journalism 2018 hosted hundreds of reporters\, editors\, producers and news directors taking part in educational sessions\, skills-building opportunities and career networking. \n\nSpotlight speakers included:\nJohn Carreyrou\, Pulitzer Prize- and AHCJ Award-winning investigative reporter\, The Wall Street Journal; author \,“Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” \nDonald K. Warne\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, chair\, Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University; senior policy adviser of Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board \nDavid Blumenthal\, M.D.\, president\, The Commonwealth Fund \nOtis Brawley\, M.D.\, M.A.C.P.\, chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president\, American Cancer Society \nWilson Bryan\, M.D.\, director\, Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies\, U.S. Food and Drug Administration \nCarolyn Jones\, director and executive producer\, Defining Hope \nMary L. Smith\, member\, Cherokee nation; former principal deputy director\, Indian Health Service \nJulie Willems Van Dijk\, R.N.\, Ph.D.\, F.A.A.N.director\, County Health Rankings and Roadmaps and RWJF Culture of Health Prize \n  \n\nHighlights included:\n\n\nPanels\, including: \n\n\n\nThe rise of gene therapy \n\n\nStates and health care in the age of Trump: Wishes and waivers \n\n\nHow hospital consolidations are affecting the cost of health care \n\n\nWhat you need to know about reporting on Native American health issues \n\n\nSpecial challenges of covering immigrant health \n\n\nFree health data for journalists: How to make the most of it \n\n\nFinding organization in the chaos of mass violence \n\n\nThe health care role ahead for artificial intelligence \n\n\nHow to evaluate hospital charity care and bad debt \n\n\nThe future of veterans’ health \n\n\nEvolving pain control \n\n\nWill Congress protect Medicare? \n\n\nAnd dozens more panels\, classes and workshops \n\n\n\nField trips \n\n\nAnnual journalism awards luncheon \n\n\nFreelance PitchFest \n\n\nNetworking receptions \n\n\nConference location\nPointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort11111 North 7th Street Phoenix\, AZ 85020 \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nSponsorship team\n\nHosts\nBarrow Neurological Institute \nMayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research \nBanner Health/University of Arizona \n \nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nW.K. Kellogg Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \n\nSponsors\nThe Arizona Republic/azcentral \nWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nThe Commonwealth Fund \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \nJohn A. Hartford Foundation \nLaura and John Arnold Foundation \nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nColorado Health Foundation \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Foundation for Western & Central New York \nKansas Health Foundation \nRhode Island Foundation \nVitalyst Health Foundation \nThe JAMA Network \nThe Wiley Network \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2018/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180216T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231103T172735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T154210Z UID:26414-1518742800-1518742800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Deadline to apply for Health Journalism 2018 fellowships DESCRIPTION:Conference home\n\n\nAHCJ\, with the support of several health foundations\, is able to offer a number of fellowships to journalists for this conference. The deadline to apply for the following fellowships is noon CT\, Feb. 16: \n\n\nFellowships for Colorado journalists \n\n\nFellowships for New York journalists \n\n\nFellowships for California journalists \n\n\nFellowships for Missouri journalists \n\n\nFellowships for Kansas journalists \n\n\nFellowships for Rhode Island journalists \n\n\nFellowships for college journalism students and college journalism instructors \n\n\nFellowships for journalists in the ethnic media \n\n\nFellowships for rural health journalists \n\n\nFellowships for journalists on non-health beats URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/deadline-to-apply-for-health-journalism-2018-fellowships/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170420T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170423T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T155709Z UID:24157-1492650000-1492909200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2017 DESCRIPTION:Conference coverage\nPresentations\n\n \n\nConference home\nProgram\nField trips\nRegistration\nHotel\nFreelance PitchFest\n\n\n2017 Exhibitors\nExhibit or advertise\n\n\nFellowships\nShare a room or ride\nGetting there\n\n\nThank you for joining us in Orlando!\nNearly 700 people attended the world’s premier training event for journalists interested in covering health care\, medical  research\, public health issues\, consumer health\, ethics and the business of health care. \nHealth Journalism 2017 hosted hundreds of reporters\, editors\, producers and news directors taking part in educational sessions\, skills-building opportunities and career networking. \nKICKOFF ROUNDTABLE \nViolence as a public health emergency\n\nGeorges Benjamin\, M.D. Executive Director\, American Public Health Association \nRachel Davis\, M.S.W. Managing Director\, Prevention Institute \nGary Slutkin\, M.D. Chief Executive Officer\, Cure Violence \nAndrea McDaniels Health and medicine reporter\, The Baltimore Sun \n\n  \nPublic health experts will participate in a roundtable about applying public health interventions to change the underlying conditions that foster and spread violence. \nAWARDS LUNCHEON PRESENTATION \nMore than a meal: Serving up a health care solution\n\n \n\nEllie Hollander\, president and CEO of Meals on Wheels\, will talk about efforts to integrate the tried and true “more than just a meal” model into health care as the rapidly growing senior population is poised to almost double by 2050 and the need for services will continue to rise. \nPanels\nSee the packed daily lineups! \nField trips\nSign up for educational tours of nearby research\, clinical and teaching facilities. \nWorkshops\nFollow a basic science track or a gene editing track\, learn how to better engage readers or how to make use of cell phone video\, focus on how to better protect your sources or better explain medical studies. \nFreelance PitchFest\nRegister for short pitch meetings with assigning editors from some of the top magazines\, newspapers and websites. \nAwards luncheon\nShare the pride at the annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. \nReceptions\nAttend the Welcome to Orlando Reception on Thursday evening and the Salute to Health Journalism Reception on Saturday evening. \nDrawings\nJoin us in the Exhibit Hall for desserts\, snacks and great AHCJ prize giveaways. \nMembership meeting\nCome hear about AHCJ’s latest efforts from your elected board. \nParticipate on Twitter\nTweet about the conference using #AHCJ17 and using the special hashtag designated for each panel on the conference schedule. \n \n \nConference location\nRosen Centre Hotel9840 International DriveOrlando\, Fla. 32819 \n \n  \n\nSponsorship team\n\nHosts\nFlorida Hospital \nUniversity of Central Florida College of Medicine \nNemours Children’s Health System \nMayo Clinic \n \nEndowing sponsors\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nW.K. Kellogg Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \n \nSponsors\nUniversity of Florida Health \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \nThe Hastings Center \nJohn A. Hartford Foundation \nThe Commonwealth Fund \nKansas Health Foundation \nNew York State Health Foundation \nHealth Foundation for Western & Central New York \nColorado Health Foundation \nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nThe JAMA Network \nJournal of the American Osteopathic Association \nLaura and John Arnold Foundation \nRhode Island Foundation \nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \nFlorida Society of News Editors \nHealth Foundation of South Florida \nWUSF Public Media \nOrlando Sentinel \n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2017/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160410T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161718Z UID:24076-1459990800-1460250000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2016 DESCRIPTION:Event coverage\nPresentations\n\n \n\nConference home\nProgram\nField trips\nRegistration\nHotel\n2016 Exhibitors\nFreelance PitchFest\nFellowships\nShare a room or ride\nGetting there\n\n\nAHCJ rocked Cleveland!\n \nMore than 600 attendees gathered for Health Journalism 2016\, where they heard from the U.S. surgeon general\, the chief medical official for Veterans Affairs and NFL notables.  \nAs always\, conference attendees heard from – and interacted with – top-notch researchers\, well-regarded educators\, effective clinicians\, prize-winning journalists and authors and many more experts on a vast array of health topics. \nOn Saturday\, the luncheon speaker was Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy\, M.D.\, the surgeon general of the United States. Another luncheon highlight was the recognition of journalists who did the best work of 2015\, winners of the annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Many of those winners appeared on panels to share how they did their winning work. \n\nSpotlight speakers included:\nDavid J. Shulkin\, M.D.Undersecretary of Health\, United States Department of Veterans Affairs \nVice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy\, M.D. Surgeon General of the United States \nLeana Wen\, M.D. Baltimore City Health Commissioner \nNatoya J. Walker Minor\, M.P.A. Interim Director\, Cleveland Department of Public Health \nMelba R. Moore\,M.S.\, C.P.H.A. Acting Director/Commissioner of Health\, City of St. Louis Department of Health \nAbdul El-Sayed\, M.D.\, D.Phil.Executive Director and Health Officer\, Detroit Health Department \nStanton L. Gerson\, M.D. Director\, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center \nPamela B. Davis\, M.D.\, Ph.D. Dean\, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine \nSusan Rehm\, M.D. Vice Chair of the Department of Infectious Disease\, Cleveland Clinic \nKarim A. Botros Chief Strategy Officer\, MetroHealth Cleveland \nMarilyn Tavenner President\, America’s Health Insurance Plans; former CMS Administrator \nSteve Sanders Philanthropist\, former NFL player \nJosh Cribbs NFL free agent \n  \n\n\nConference locations\nCleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center (Thursday and Sunday)127 Public SquareCleveland\, Ohio 44114 \nCleveland Convention Center – Global Center for Health Innovation entrance (Friday and Saturday) 1 St. Clair Ave.\, NE Cleveland\, Ohio 44114 \n\n\nHosts\n\n\n \nCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine \n\n\nCleveland Clinic \n\n\nUniversity Hospitals \n\n\nMetroHealth \n\n\nEndowing sponsors\n\n\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \n\n\nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \n\n\nW.K. Kellogg Foundation \n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n \nPatient Centered Outcomes Research Institute \n\n\nGlobal Center for Health Innovation \n\n\nThe Commonwealth Fund \n\n\nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n\n\nJohn A. Hartford Foundation \n\n\nMissouri Foundation for Health \n\n\nCalifornia Health Care Foundation \n\n\nColorado Health Foundation \n\n\nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \n\n\nRhode Island Foundation \n\n\nHealth Foundation for Western and Central New York \n\n\nJournal of the American Osteopathic Association \n\n\nThe JAMA Network \n\n\nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \n\n\nLaura and John Arnold Foundation \n\n\nMt. Sinai Health Care Foundation\, Cleveland \n\n\nBetter Health Partnership \n\n\nDestination Cleveland \n\n\n\n  \nInterested in sponsoring future events? Please contact bruzzesel@missouri.edu. \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2016/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150426T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161941Z UID:24006-1429750800-1430010000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2015 DESCRIPTION:Event coverage\n\n \n \nConference home\nRegistration\nThursday/Friday\nSaturday/Sunday\nOverview\nPresentations\n2015 Exhibitors\nExhibit or advertise\nGetting there\nShare a room or ride\nThings to do\nPitchFest\nFellowships\nField trips\nHotel\n\n\n\nApril 23-26\, 2015\nJoin hundreds of journalism colleagues in California’s Silicon Valley — an intersection of health and technology\, and home to Health Journalism 2015. \nPHOTOS: Watch AHCJ’s Facebook page for photos from the conference. \nCONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS\nSpotlight speakers\n \nPhysician and bestselling author Abraham Verghese\, M.D.\, on the importance of bedside medicine and physical examination in an era of advanced medical technology. \n \n \nDeane Marchbein\, M.D.\, the U.S. president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières\, offering the latest Ebola report from her work in Africa. \n \nNewsmaker briefing\n \nRobert McDonald\, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs\, will hold a news conference. \n \nWorkshops and panels\nSee the packed daily lineups! \nField trips\nSign up for educational tours of nearby research\, clinical and teaching facilities. \nFreelance PitchFest\nFreelance writers may register for short pitch meetings with assigning editors from some of the top magazines\, newspapers and websites. \nAwards luncheon\nThe annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism Journalists will recognize the best work of 2014. \nReceptions\nAttend the Welcome to Silicon Valley Reception on Thursday evening and the Salute to Health Journalism Reception on Saturday evening. \nDrawings\nJoin us in the Exhibit Hall for desserts\, snacks and great AHCJ prize giveaways. \nMembership meeting\nCome hear about AHCJ’s latest efforts from your elected board. \n \n\nHosts:\n\n\n\nStanford School of Medicine \n\n\nStanford Health Care \n\n\nLucile Packard Children’s Hospital \n\n\nVice Provost and Dean of Research\, Stanford University \n\n\nEndowing Sponsors:\n\n\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \n\n\nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \n\n\nSponsors:\n\n\n\nCalifornia HealthCare Foundation \n\n\nMissouri Foundation for Health \n\n\nLucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health \n\n\nUC Berkeley School of Public Health\, Graduate School of Journalism \n\n\nThe California Wellness Foundation \n\n\nThe Colorado Health Foundation \n\n\nKansas Health Foundation \n\n\nUniversity of California\, San Francisco \n\n\nThe Commonwealth Fund \n\n\nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \n\n\nAnnual Reviews \n\n\nHealth Foundation for Western & Central New York \n\n\nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \n\n\nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \n\n\nThe California Endowment \n\n\nRhode Island Foundation \n\n\nThe JAMA Network \n\n\nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \n\n\nW.K. Kellogg Foundation URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2015/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140327T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140330T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160149Z UID:23929-1395882000-1396141200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2014 DESCRIPTION:Event coverage\n\n \n\nConference home\nRegistration\nProgram\nField trips\nHotel\n2014 exhibitors\nFreelance PitchFest\nFellowships\nExhibit or advertise\nGetting there\nShare a room or ride\nThings to do\n\n\nAHCJ’s first Mountain States conference – Health Journalism 2014 – brought journalists from across the United States and beyond to Denver in March. With nearly 700 attendees\, the conference included field trips\, workshops\, a special end-of-life track\, spotlight speakers\, the Freelance PitchFest and dozens of panels. \nSpotlight speakers included experts who continue to impact the world of health care\, including Louis W. Sullivan\, M.D.\, who served as HHS secretary from 1989 to 1993 and was the founding dean and first president of Morehouse School of Medicine\, and Paul A. Offit\, M.D.\, chief of the division of infectious diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Sullivan is author of “Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine\,” which came out just before the conference. Offit is the author of several books including “Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All” (2011)\, and “Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine” (2013). \nAttendees were welcomed to Colorado by Gov. John Hickenlooper\, who described himself as a “recovering geologist now on loan to public service.” \nConference attendees tweeted throughout using #ahcj14. \n  \n \nLouis W. Sullivan\, M.D. \n\n \nPaul A. Offit\, M.D. \n\n \nGov. John Hickenlooper \n\n  \n\nHosts:\n\n\n \nUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus \n\n\nNational Jewish Health \n\n\nUniversity of Colorado Hospital \n\n\nChildren’s Hospital Colorado \n\n\nEndowing Sponsors:\n\n\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \n\n\nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \n\n\nSponsors:\n\n\n \nThe Denver Post \n\n\nKMGH-Denver/7News \n\n\nAnnual Reviews \n\n\nThe Colorado Health Foundation \n\n\nThe California HealthCare Foundation \n\n\nThe Missouri Foundation for Health \n\n\nThe Hastings Center \n\n\nDenver Health \n\n\nThe Commonwealth Fund \n\n\nPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute \n\n\nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \n\n\nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \n\n\nRhode Island Foundation \n\n\nThe Colorado Trust \n\n\nThe JAMA Network \n\n\nNorthwest Health Foundation \n\n\nThe Pew Charitable Trusts \n\n\nNew York State Health Foundation URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2014/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130314T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130317T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163024Z UID:23876-1363222800-1363482000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2013 DESCRIPTION:Road to Boston\nEvent coverage\nNews briefing\nPresentations\nConference news\n\n \n\nConference home\nProgram\nField Trips\nHighlights\nRegistration\nFreelance PitchFest\nHotel\nFellowships\nExhibit or advertise\n2013 Exhibitors\nShare room or ride\nTransportation\nThings to do\n\n\nRecord turnout for Boston conference\nA record crowd of more than 750 attended Health Journalism 2013 in Boston. Journalists from across the United States and eight other nations took part in skill-building workshops\, panel discussions and field trips to area research sites. The conference\, produced by the association’s Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism\, featured world-class speakers\, and helpful sessions aimed at aiding reporters\, editors and news producers in better covering the latest health issues. AHCJ used a news briefing to unveil its news app hospitalinspections.org. \nSpotlight speakers included: \n\n\nDonald M. Berwick\, M.D.\, former president and CEO\, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; former administrator\, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services \n\n\nDavid Goldhill\, president and CEO of GSN (formerly the Game Show Network)\, and author of “Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father – And How We Can Fix It” \n\n\nJerome Groopman\, M.D.\, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center \n\n\nPamela Hartzband\, M.D.\, an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School \n\n\nFarzad Mostashari\, M.D.\, Sc.M.\, national coordinator for health information technology \n\n\nDeval Patrick\, now in his second term as governor of Massachusetts \n\n\nSee more conference highlights.\n \n\nHosts:\n\n\nBoston University \n\n\nBoston Children’s Hospital \n\n\nHarvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health \n\n\nEndowing Sponsors:\n\n\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \n\nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust\n\nSponsors:\n\n\nThe Boston Globe \n\n\nThe New England Journal of Medicine \n\n\nMassachusetts General Hospital \n\n\nBrigham and Women’s Hospital \n\n\nBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center \n\n\nDana-Farber Cancer Institute \n\n\nTufts Medical Center/Tufts University \n\n\nMedStar Georgetown University Hospital \n\n\nInformed Medical Decisions Foundation \n\n\nThe California HealthCare Foundation \n\n\nThe Missouri Foundation for Health \n\n\nNew York State Health Foundation \n\n\nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \n\n\nThe Commonwealth Fund \n\n\nThe Colorado Health Foundation \n\n\nThe Rhode Island Foundation \n\n\nAgency for Healthcare Research & Quality URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2013/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120419T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120422T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T161050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163045Z UID:23791-1334797200-1335056400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2012 DESCRIPTION:More than 600 attend\n \nOne of the largest crowds in AHCJ history gathered for a successful conference in Atlanta. \nThe event featured a Conversation with former President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter\, in which they talked about their efforts to improve health globally\, bring parity to mental health care and thoughts on the effort to reform the country’s health care system. \nKeynote speaker Otis Brawley\, M.D.\, the American Cancer Society’s chief medical and scientific officer\, spoke eloquently about how the health system doesn’t provide incentives for the best care\, pointing out that the “system isn’t failing; failure is the system.” \nDozens of panels and workshops brought new sources and story ideas to many attendees\, as well as inspiration to continue pushing to do the best health journalism. \n\nHosts:\nEmory University \nChildren’s Healthcare of Atlanta \nUniversity of Georgia \nEndowing sponsors:\nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nSponsors:\nCalifornia HealthCare Foundation \nMissouri Foundation for Health \nInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation \nRTI International \nNorthwest Health Foundation \nThe John A. Hartford Foundation \nECRI Institute \nThe Commonwealth Fund \nMontefiore Medical Center \nNew York State Health Foundation \nWebMD \nHealthcare Georgia Foundation \nLucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health \nMorehouse School of Medicine URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2012/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110414T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110417T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T160937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150829Z UID:23752-1302742800-1303002000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2011 DESCRIPTION: \nPost-conference material\n\nConference recap\nSession presentations and tip sheets\nStories about sessions\nStories since the conference\n\nSpotlight speakers\nAmong the dozens of expert speakers and instructors who joined us this year: • G. Michael Lemole Jr.\, the neurosurgeon who operated on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in Tucson\, will be the keynote speaker. • Brian Deer\, the British reporter who exposed the weaknesses in a study that led parents all over the world to withhold vaccines from their children • Walt Bogdanich\, investigative editor for The New York Times and former 60 Minutes producer. • Francis S. Collins\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, director of the National Institutes of Health\, and Donald M. Berwick\, M.D.\, M.P.P.\, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\, spoke in separate Newsmaker Briefings. • David Blumenthal\, national coordinator for health information technology\, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services \n \nSpeaker presentations\, audio and video of some presentations and articles about specific panels are available. More than 2\,200 tweets from the conference are archived. \nFor coverage and other news stories about the conference\, please click here. Do you have a story to add to the list? Send it to pia@healthjournalism.org. \n \n\n\nKeynote speaker\nPeter Pronovost\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, professor\, Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group\, was this year’s keynote speaker at the awards luncheon on Saturday\, April 24. \nPronovost\, who established the Quality and Safety Research Group to advance the science of safety\, is dedicated to improving health care through methods that are scientifically rigorous\, but feasible at the bedside. Pronovost chose patient safety as a career path after watching his father die as a result of a medical error. In his new book\, “Safe Patients\, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out\,” Pronovost tells that story\, as well as the story of his journey from a researcher to a leader in patient safety.   \n\n\n\n\n\nNewsmaker briefings\nBack-to-back Newsmaker Briefings on April 22: \n• Thomas Frieden\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, director\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, at 5:30 p.m. • Kathleen Sebelius\, M.P.A.\, secretary\, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, at 6:15 p.m. \nNewsmaker Briefing on Friday\, April 23: \n• Jeffrey Shuren\, director\, Center for Devices and Radiological Health\, Food and Drug Administration \nAssessing health reform\nSpecial series of sessions to help you understand health reform: \n\nAssessing health reform: Does comparative effectiveness research work?\nAssessing health reform: Outlook for the nation’s hospitals\nAssessing health reform: Is there a looming doctor shortage?\nAssessing health reform: What’s ahead for state and local governments\nAssessing health reform: The reporting challenge going forward\n\n The conference schedule \nMore 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. \nFor those of you on Twitter\, we used the hashtag #ahcj2010 for news about and from the conference. Follow AHCJ_Pia for all of the latest news from AHCJ. \n\n\n\n\nHOSTS\n\nFeinberg School of Medicine\, Northwestern University\nNorthwestern Memorial Hospital\nRehabilitation Institute of Chicago\n\nENDOWING SPONSOR\n\nThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\n\n\n\nSPONSORS\n\nChicago Tribune Foundation\nMcCormick Foundation\nThe Commonwealth Fund\nJAMA & Archives Journals \nThe California Wellness Foundation\nMontefiore Medical Center\nCalifornia HealthCare Foundation\nMissouri Foundation for Health\nNorthwest Health Foundation\nThe Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation\nThe John A. Hartford Foundation\nFoundation for Informed Medical Decision Making \nRTI International\nCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center \nKaiser Family Foundation \nThe California Endowment \nAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCongratulations to Betsy Cliff\, a reporter at The (Bend\, Ore.) Bulletin\, who won complimentary registration to Health Journalism 2010 by filling out last year’s conference evaluation. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2010/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090419T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160706Z UID:23490-1239843600-1240102800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2009 DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nMore than 400 people attended AHCJ’s annual conference in Seattle and took advantage of a series of multimedia training sessions\, field trips\, and panels covering everything from aging to global health to veterans’ health issues. AHCJ is posting speaker presentations\, tip sheets and summaries of many of the panels. \nNews from the conference\n Tip sheets\, presentations from Health Journalism 2009 Journalists learn to market\, brand themselves Improving reporting on medical studies Do audiences understand health stories? Genetic\, environmental factors at work in aging process Hospital patient safety initiatives borrow from transportation industry Reporters’ preparation would decrease chaos in covering disasters Animal-to-human contact key to emerging diseases Obama order expected to increase speed\, efficiency of stem cell research Gaps in evidence drive movement toward shared decision-making Mental health: Reporting beyond the labels Credit crisis\, IRS changes affect hospital finances Doctor shortage a ‘crisis’ in Wash. Costs critical to stories about health care \nNow\, more than ever\, AHCJ offers training\, networking and support for journalists. \n\nHosts\n♦ University of Washington / Health Sciences-UW Medicine ♦ Seattle Children’s Hospital\nEndowing Sponsor\n♦ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\nSponsors\n\n♦ The Seattle Times ♦ The California Endowment ♦ Northwest Science Writers Association ♦ California HealthCare Foundation ♦ Missouri Foundation for Health ♦ The California Wellness Foundation ♦ The Commonwealth Fund ♦ Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making ♦ Montefiore Medical Center ♦ RTI International ♦ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ♦ Virginia Mason Medical Center\n\n\nCongratulations to James Mulder of The (Syracuse) Post-Standard. By filling out the evaluation of the Urban Health Journalism Workshop\, Mulder won the drawing for free registration to Health Journalism 2009! URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2009/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080327T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080330T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160738Z UID:23392-1206579600-1206838800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2008 DESCRIPTION:  Post-conference news: \n\n\nNearly 600 attendees gathered for conference\n\n\nStories\, tip sheets and webcasts from the conference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Edwards \n\n\nDennis Quaid \n\n\nMichael Leavitt \n\n\n Georges Benjamin\, M.D. \n\n\n\n\nHighlights: \n• Keynote speaker Elizabeth Edwards\, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards will address attendees at the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism Luncheon. \n• Newsmaker Briefing: A candid conversation with actor Dennis Quaid\, whose twins were recently the victims of a medical error. \n• Newsmaker briefing with Michael Leavitt\, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Hospital Quality Alliance and Leavitt will make a major announcement Friday at Health Journalism 2008. To help you put the material in context\, we have added two breakfast briefings in the morning at which officials will discuss the announcement and what it means for consumers. The comments from the briefing are EMBARGOED until 3 p.m. Eastern time to coincide with the secretary's address. The breakfast briefings are for conference registrants only. The secretary's press conference is open to credentialed press. \n• Newsmaker briefing: Public health blueprint for tackling climate change with Georges Benjamin\, M.D.\, executive director of the American Public Health Association\, and other public health experts. \n• Field trips: Choose from two outstanding field trips \n• Special workshop on mapping health \n• A Freelance PitchFest in which writers will have an opportunity to pitch ideas to assigning editors \n• A Friday luncheon and roundtable discussion on Election 2008 and health reform \n… as well as dozens of panel sessions on medical research\, public health\, the business of health\, consumer health issues and journalism techniques. \nMore than 400 people attended last year's conference and some events generated immediate stories and sources for our members. \n\n\n\n\nCome take advantage of: \n\n\n\n\n• Informative panels • Workshops • Field Trips • Press Conferences \n\n\n• Latest Resources • Networking • Story Ideasand lots more! \n\n\n\n\nHosted by:\nGeorgetown University Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital \nEndowing Sponsor:\nThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation \nSponsors include:\n American Journal of Nursing California HealthCare Foundation The California Endowment The California Wellness Foundation The Commonwealth Fund Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Johns Hopkins Institutions Kaiser Family Foundation Missouri Foundation for Health Montefiore Medical Center Picker Institute RTI International \nIf you have hotel or general conference questions\, please contact Ev Ruch-Graham\, training coordinator\, ev@healthjournalism.org or 573-884-8103. If you have registration questions\, please contact Christy Stretz\, membership coordinator\, christy@healthjournalism.org or 573-882-2955. \n\n \n\nConference links URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2008/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070412T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070413T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T144820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150818Z UID:23330-1176339600-1176426000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Gnat Lines News Briefing: Real Health and Medical News for Working Reporters DESCRIPTION:AHCJ is a sponsor of this event. Board members Charles Ornstein and Karl Stark will be among the panelists. Topics include stroke\, HIPAA\, genetics and researching local hospitals. Limited to 30 reporters. \nSchedule\nThursday\, April 12\n6-7 p.m. Registration and reception \n7-10 p.m. Dinner \nWelcome: E. Culpepper Clark\, Dean\, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication\, University of Georgia \nIntroduction: Patricia Thomas\, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism\, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication\, University of Georgia \nKeynote: Fragile X Syndrome: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Developments. Stephen T. Warren\, Ph.D.\, Chairman\, Department of Human Genetics and Professor of Human Genetics\, Biochemistry and Pediatrics\, Emory University School of Medicine \nFriday\, April 13\n6:30-8:15 a.m. Breakfast \n8:15 a.m. Welcome and introduction: Patricia Thomas\, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism\, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication\, University of Georgia \n8:30 a.m. Covering your local hospital: Quality.Charles Ornstein\, public health and health policy reporter\, Los Angeles Times \n10:00-10:30 a.m. Break \n10:30 a.m. Covering your local hospital: Money.Karl Stark\, national/foreign editor\, The Philadelphia Inquirer \n12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch \n1:15 p.m. Opening the therapeutic window for stroke treatment.Byron D. Ford\, Ph.D.\, Director\, Center for Neuroprotection\, Neurorepair and Stroke and Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology\, Morehouse School of Medicine \n2:15 p.m. What happens behind bars doesn't stay there: Interventions can protect community health.Rhonda Conerly Holliday\, Ph.D.\, Research Assistant Professor of Community Health and Preventive Medicine\, Morehouse School of Medicine \n3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break \n3:30 p.m. Circadian rhythms and health: Bad news about shift work and jet lag?Alec J. Davidson\, Ph.D.\, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology\, Morehouse School of Medicine \n4:30 p.m. Conference wrap-up: Patricia Thomas \n4:45 p.m. Departure URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/gnat-lines-news-briefing-real-health-and-medical-news-for-working-reporters/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070315T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070318T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T144819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150816Z UID:23329-1173920400-1174179600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2007 DESCRIPTION:Annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists \nMore than 400 journalists attended Health Journalism 2007\, AHCJ’s annual conference produced by the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism\, gathering story ideas and resources. AOL and Revolution Health founder Steve Case offered the keynote address on Saturday\, following the presentation of the 2006 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. On Friday\, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke about his plan for health care and answered questions. Journalists heard from creators and actors from today’s hottest TV health shows\, as well as experts in health care policy\, top journalists in the field and many others. \nThe conference included two new workshops; three field trips to witness unique research and clinical work at USC\, UCLA and City of Hope; and dozens of classes and panel sessions. \nSome highlights:\n\n\n\n\nResources from the conference \nWebcasts and podcasts of some sessions are now available\, as well as a slideshow. We will be adding more resources in the coming days and weeks. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn a special Newsmaker Briefing\, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his health team will discuss health-care policy in California and its implications nationally.\nA conversation with Steve Case\, founder of AOL and Revolution Health\n A Hollywood and Health roundtable\, with writers and producers from Grey's Anatomy\, House and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and actors from General Hospital \nPresentation of annual Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism\nField trips to check out the latest medical research and clinical work at USC\, UCLA and City of Hope\nA special roundtable on stem cell policy and where it's headed\nNews conferences to generate breaking news reports\nChances to unwind and network at a poolside opening-night reception at the hotel and a Saturday night reception at Café Tu Tu Tango in nearby CityWalk\n\n\n\n\n\nHosts\n\n USC Health Sciences\n UCLA Health Sciences \n City of Hope \n University of California\, Irvine\n\nSponsors\n\nKNBC-Los Angeles\nLos Angeles Times\nKaiser Family Foundation\n Missouri Foundation for Health \n The California Wellness Foundation \n University of California\, Riverside \n Western University of Health Sciences \nCalifornia HealthCare Foundation\nThe Commonwealth Fund\nRTI International\nFoundation for Informed Medical Decision Making\nPicker Institute\nAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality \n\nArea Information \n\nConference logistics \nUniversal CityWalk \nSan Fernando Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau\nLos Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau \n\n\n\nConference Information \n\nSchedule \nField trips \nConference logistics\n\n \nFellowships\n\nFellowships for Ethnic Media \nFellowships for Missouri Journalists \nFellowships for California Journalists \n\nExhibitors and Advertising\n\n2007 Exhibitors\n\nConference Hotel\nHilton Los Angeles/Universal City 555 Universal Hollywood Drive Universal City\, CA 91608-1001 Phone: 818-506-25001-800-HILTONS URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2007/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061027T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061028T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T144815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150812Z UID:23327-1161910800-1161997200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:2006 Regional Conference DESCRIPTION:Cleveland served as the backdrop for AHCJ’s 2006 Regional Conference\, Oct. 27-28. The journalism training event\, produced by the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and AHCJ\, featured panel sessions\, workshops and field trips. \nHost: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine \n \nSponsors\n\nThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation \nThe Plain Dealer \nThe NASA Glenn Research Center\nThe Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation\nThe MetroHealth System\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Information \nLinks to handouts and presentations from this conference are on the conference schedule. \n\nConference schedule \nField trips \nOhio college student stipends\n\n\n\nHotelIntercontinental Suites Cleveland8800 Euclid AvenueCleveland\, OH 44106 \nLocal information\n\nUniversity Circle\nConvention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/2006-regional-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060316T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060319T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150808Z UID:23347-1142470800-1142730000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Journalism 2006 DESCRIPTION:National Conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists\nHealth Journalism 2006 was March 16-19 in Houston. The conference\, produced by the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and AHCJ\, featured panel sessions\, workshops and field trips meant to deepen journalists' understanding of the health topics they are called upon to cover most: health policy\, medical research\, consumer health\, ethics and the business of health care. Award-winning reporters joined medical and policy experts in leading the workshops. \n\nWebcasts and podcasts from the conference\nPresentations from the conference\nConference program \nField trips \n California fellowships \nMissouri fellowships \nExhibitors \n\n\n\n\n\nHosts\n\nBaylor College of Medicine\nUniversity of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center\nUniversity of Texas Health Science Center\n\nSponsors\n\nUniversity of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston\nTexas Medical Center News\nThe Houston Chronicle\nThe Associated Press\nMissouri Foundation for Health\nCalifornia HealthCare Foundation\nDart Center for Journalism & Trauma\nThe Commonwealth Fund\nAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality\nRTI International\n\n\n\nConference HotelHouston Marriott West Loop 1750 West Loop S. Houston\, TX 77027 800-228-9290 \nOverflow HotelIntercontinental Houston2222 W. Loop-SouthHouston\, TX 77027888-424-6835 \nOther nearby hotels: \nJW Marriott: 713-961-1500 \nDouble Tree Guest Suites: 713-961-900 \nHilton Post Oaks: 713-961-930 \nSheraton Suites: 713-586-2444 URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-journalism-2006/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20050331T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20050403T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150804Z UID:23346-1112230800-1112490000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:2005 AHCJ Conference DESCRIPTION:Program\nThursday\, March 31 \n\n1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Early Bird Workshops (special registration required) \nGetting the Big Picture (repeats Sunday) Prevent Study "Whiplash" with Systematic Reviews \n\nHands-on with the Cochrane Library\nHealth Behavior News Service\n\nRay Moynihan Presents Evidence-Based Medicine II: What Works and What's It Worth? \n5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Opening Reception \n7 p.m. KeynoteConflict of Interest in Biomedical Research: No Conflict\, No Interest Ross McKinney\, Jr.\, M.D. Vice Dean for Research Duke University Medical Center \n\n8:30 p.m. Screening of "Taking Back the Future: Living with M.S." With documentary filmmaker Richard Pellegrino\, M.D.\, a neurologist from Hot Springs\, Ark. \n\nFriday\, April 1 \n\nMorning Field Trips 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. \n\n #1 Health impacts of air pollution\, pesticides & carcinogens: NIEHS and EPA \nDuke Diet & Fitness Center\nUNC Center for Environmental Medicine\, Asthma and Lung Biology\nVA Medical Center – Returning from Iraq\n\nNoon – Exhibits open \n Noon to 1:45 p.m. News Events! \n\n Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mark B. McClellan\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, will be holding a news conference to make an announcement of broad consumer interest. Dick Davidson\, president of the American Hospital Association\, and Gerry Shea\, AFL-CIO director of governmental affairs\, will also speak. The news conference is open to the media. \nFollowing the news conference\, McClellan will be speaking to a luncheon plenary session of the conference. The title of his speech is "Today's Medicare: Better Meeting America's Needs With Modern Benefits and Quality Care." \n\n2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\nPlenary: Journal Editors Make Waves With Jeff Drazen (New England Journal of Medicine)\, Cathy DeAngelis (Journal of the American Medical Association) and Harold Sox (Annals of Internal Medicine) \n\n4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Breakout sessions \n\nMedicaid: Changes and Consequences The Last Hope: Stem-Cell Transplants For Sick Children Freelancing: The Editor's Perspective Obesity Talking About Risk How I Got the Story: Pulitzer Prize winner Diana Sugg \n\n6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. \n\nReception at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sponsored by the New England Journal of Medicine \n\n7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\nFireside Chat "The Future of 21st Century Medicine" William Roper\, M.D.\, MPH\, CEO of the UNC Health Care System and Dean of the UNC School of Medicine \n\n\nSaturday\, April 2 \n\n7 a.m. to 8 a.m. Fun Run \n8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Morning Workshops \n\nAHCJ Award Winners\nPitfalls of Health Writing\nThe Gap Between Health News and Health Science\n Blogging and e-Journalism – (hands-on at UNC computer lab)\nCovering Multicultural Health Issues-The New Guide\nHealth on TV\n\nNoon Lunch Plenary \n\nGlobal View – Ranking Health and Health Care Sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund \n\n1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Annual Membership Meeting \n3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Breakout sessions \n\nMedicare: What's the Real Deal? \nDoing Terrific Research Online (UNC computer labs)\nThe Next Pandemic: Flu and Emerging Infecious Diseases\nGenomics\nHow to Get to Universal Health Coverage and Why the Covered Should Care\n\n5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Cash Bar/Silent Auction \n6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Dinner Plenary Dr. Donald Berwick\, President and CEO\, Institute for Healthcare Improvement \n\nSunday\, April 3 \n\n 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Breakout Sessions \n\nCharity Care: Questions You Wouldn't Think to Ask\nBiosafety\, Bioterror: The New National Centers\nAging: The Missing Links in Covering Seniors' Health\nThe Freelance Life: Insurance\, Invoices\, Insecurity\n\nNoon to 1:30 p.m. Plenary Brunch What's Wrong With Health Care Investigative Reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele \n1:30 p.m. – Exhibits close \n2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Getting the Big Picture II (special registration required) Prevent Study "Whiplash" with Systematic Reviews \n\n\nKeynote Speakers \n Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research: No Conflict\, No Interest Ross McKinney\, Jr.\, M.D. Vice Dean for Research Duke University Medical Center Conflict of interest is one of the most important and complicated issues facing biomedical institutions and researchers in the current environment. It's an ancient problem – one of the reasons the Hippocratic Oath was written – but contemporary events have made it a particularly topical. Although patients may not realize it\, every physician visit is an exercise in decision making affected by conflict of interest issues. On a larger scale\, in December 2003 the Los Angeles Times published an article revealing the extent of conflict of interest among senior leadership figures at the NIH. Given the important role of NIH senior leadership in setting scientific priorities and policies\, Congress began to focus attention. A Blue Ribbon panel convened by NIH Director Elias Zerhouni made recommendations for a new NIH conflict of interest policy during the summer of 2004\, but their suggestions did not meet the expectations of an angry Congress\, and in January 2005 Dr. Zerhouni was forced to institute draconian new policies affecting NIH personnel. The story is not yet over – will policies like those instituted at the NIH be forced downstream to academic medical centers in general? Can the NIH survive the stringent new rules with its scientific pre-eminence intact? \n The talk will review fundamental principles in conflict of interest\, some important illustrations\, and a discussion of the current environment at the NIH and academic medical centers in general. \nField Trip Descriptions \nHealth impacts of air pollution\, pesticides & carcinogens: NIEHS and EPA The field trip on Friday\, April 1\, to the campuses of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency will depart a half-hour early from the hotel (at 8 a.m.) to allow for adequate time for two panel discussions\, Q&A and tours. The tour will feature: \n\nNIEHS Director Dr. Kenneth Olden\, with remarks on health disparities\nAir quality and our health: The science and regulation of air quality\nNot child's play: Pesticides and carcinogens\nTours of NIEHS and EPA research lab\n\nSpeakers on the first panel include Dr. Dan Acosta\, National Program director for air research at the Enviromental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development\, and Jeff Clark\, director of policy analysis and communications in the EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. \nSpeakers on the second panel include Dr. Linda Sheldon\, acting director for Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division in the EPA's Office of Research and Development. \nDuke Diet & Fitness Center The Duke Diet & Fitness Center (DFC) is an intensive\, medically-supervised residential weight management center that helps moderately and severely overweight people accomplish gradual and lasting weight loss and improve their quality of life. This field trip provides an inside look at this successful weight loss program and will include a question-and-answer session with discussion of possible story ideas\, including national trends. Field trip participants will visit Duke's Stedman Nutrition Center\, the site of many clinical weight loss trials\, and meet with DFC staff and people who have lost weight at the DFC. Director Howard Eisenson\, M.D.; health psychologist Martin Binks\, Ph.D.; nutrition manager Elisabetta Politi\, R.D.; fitness manager Gerald Endress and client relations coordinator Dina Lumia will attend. \n UNC Center for Environmental Medicine\, Asthma and Lung Biology The Center for Environmental Medicine\, Asthma and Lung Biology was established in 1979 and is broadly concerned with environmental impacts on human health and on respiratory health in particular. Its research programs are closely related to those of U.S. EPA's Human Studies Division located on the UNC-CH medical campus. The Center is associated with the Carolina Federation for Environmental Programs. AHCJ participants will see first-hand how multidisciplinary approaches are used to study the effects of inhaled agents on diseased and healthy human subjects following in vivo exposures in environmental chambers. They will also learn how human cells and cell lines are studied in vitro. More details on the center can be found at www.med.unc.edu/envlung/ \nVA Medical Center: Returning from Iraq 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. Welcome and introduction by Interim Director\, Durham VA Medical Center 8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Overview of VA structure and programs plus Q&A 9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Women's Clinic issues and programs plus Q&A. 9:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Break 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Post deployment mental health\, MIRECC\, and related issues plus Q&A 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Combat injuries — Richmond VA staff plus Q&A 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Tour of hospital or continued Q&A \nSession Descriptions \n Getting the Big Picture Tired of being whipsawed by one study that says "this" and then the next study says "that?" Help your readers and audiences cut through the hype and confusion of single-study. Explore the unique Cochrane Library of systematic reviews in a hands-on computer lab session. Discuss systematic reviews and how to use them in your coverage with Jessie Gruman\, Ph.D.\, president of the Center for the Advancement of Health\, which produces the Health Behavior News Service. \nEvidence-Based Medicine II: What Works and What's it Worth? Building on his popular Evidence-Based Medicine introductory workshops\, journalist Ray Moynihan shows how evidence is being put to use to help consumers\, health plans and public agencies get the biggest bang for their health care bucks. Learn how more people and systems\, from Aussies to Oregonians\, are demanding that drugs and procedures prove their worth. This workshop will open with an overview of evidence-based medicine and systematic reviews. Then participants will examine real-world examples to see how cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses are done. The case studies\, general principals and potential sources for interviews and references will prepare participants to report the local angles and stories of these emerging trends in applying evidence-based medicine to everyday health care decisions. \nReception Enjoy old friends or hang out with new ones. Here's the perfect time for cross-fertilization of ideas — how to handle a difficult editor or how to be a difficult editor. Or\, just socialize and find some dinner companions. Dozens of good restaurants are a short cab ride away. A list is in your folder. \nPlenary Roundtable with Journal Editors: Find out what journal editors are thinking Topics include public registry of drug trials\, embargo breaks and conflicts of interest. \nBreakout sessions: The Last Hope: Stell-Cell Transplants for Sick Children For children with rare genetic diseases\, there are often no miracle cures and few options for treatment. Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg of Duke University Medical Center will discuss her efforts to use pediatric stem cell transplant to slow the progression of the diseases — and the reluctance of some insurers to cover them. And Dr. Alan Fleischman of the New York Academy of Medicine will discuss the ethical issues in high-cost procedures that are\, as yet\, unproven. \nMedicaid: Changes and Consequences Medicaid is the nation's health and long-term care financing program for low-income Americans. It has 53 million enrollees and program spending of over $300 billion by the federal and state governments. Due to continuing budgetary pressures for states and a rising federal budget deficit\, Medicaid has become the center of policy discussions as lawmakers examine ways to curb growing health care costs. This session will examine Medicaid's role in the American health care system and the challenges facing the program as both federal and state policymakers consider restructuring of the program to curb growth. The panelists will discuss the implications of changes to Medicaid and the impact on those the program serves. \n\n Jeffrey McWaters; Founder\, chairman and CEO; Virginia Beach-based Amerigroup Corp.\nCindy Mann; Research Professor; Georgetown University\, Health Policy Institute \n Barbara Edwards; Deputy Director; Ohio Health Plan\,Department of Job & Family Services\nBarbara Lyons; Deputy Director; Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured \n\n Freelancing: The Editor's Perspective When you're a freelancer\, one of your key customers is your editor\, often just a voice on the phone or an unseen hand typing e-mails. But ifyou don't keep this most important customer happy\, you can kiss assignments goodbye. Learn what works and doesn't work when it comes to editors\, what drives them crazy\, what makes them cry with joy. Learn why they might take weeks to get back to you on queries\, why the editor picks up the phone and calls you with an idea\, and why they might change their names and disconnect their phones to get away from you. We gathered editors from nearly every avenue of consumer medical writing: business writing\, general audience newspaper\, trade newspaper\, non-profit and consumer magazines to tell you what works and what doesn't. With David Olmos\, editor\, Los Angeles Times health page; Julie Bryant\, managing editor\, Atlanta Business Chronicle; Heidi Rosvold\, editorial director\, National Women's Health Resource Center; Sean Henahan\, editor\, Euro Times; and Christian Millman\, senior editor/health\, Better Homes and Gardens. \nObesity The incidence of pediatric obesity is rising\, but few pediatricians\, teachers and parents have the skills to recognize and treat overweight children. Terrill Bravender\, M.D.\, a Duke pediatrician who specializes in obesity and childhood eating disorders\, will discuss new models for treating children\, such as a comprehensive intake/referral center and a parent training program\, and why it's difficult to convince insurance companies to pay for such treatment. June Stevens\, Ph.D.\, a nutrition epidemiologist at UNC\, will address the causes\, consequences and prevention of obesity in children. \nTalking About Risk The lingo\, the pitfalls. A case study-how were Vioxx risks/benefits handled before withdrawal from the market. \nReception Enjoy hors d'oeuvres at the UNC School of Journalism before the Fireside Chat. \nFireside Chat: "The Future of 21st Century Medicine" William Roper\, M.D.\, MPH\, CEO of the UNC Health Care System and Dean of the UNC School of Medicine. \nHow They Got the Story: The Best Health Journalists of 2004 Learn tips and skills from the winners of AHCJ's First Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Whether you're in newspapers\, magazines\, TV or radio\, there's something for you to learn at this session. The awards of excellence will be given out at this conference. \nPitfalls of Health Writing Part I: Statistics and spin: Jeanne Lenzer will review how statistics are spun and misunderstood. Using news releases\, scientific studies\, and their coverage by news media\, Lenzer will show how data that actually convey bad or worrisome outcomes are sometimes universally reported as great news – due to errors made by both the study authors and journalists. Resources to aid in the identification of these biases will be discussed. \n Part II: Mental Health and Psychiatric Drugs: Rob Waters\, who says pharma industry spin reaches its highest form when applied to the marketing of psychiatric drugs\, will talk about the need for skepticism when confronting claims that\, for instance\, antidepressants "work" as much as 70 percent of the time. He'll also talk about reporting on psychotherapy and the turf wars between psychotherapy\, with its social-environmental perspective\, and psychiatry\, with its biomedical explanation of mental/behavioral disorders as chemical imbalances. \nBlogging and e-Journalism Want to understand why blogging is so hot? We'll learn by doing. Anton Zuiker\, a freelancer and blogger\, and Carla K. Johnson\, of the Associated Press\, will give a Blogging 101 history and review\, a tutorial on creating your own weblog\, and exploration of RSS syndication. Then we'll collaborate on a health weblog\, posting items and resource links for a variety of beats. \nMembership Meeting Spend an hour getting an update on association activities. Find out what's next for the association. Offer your ideas on how we can better serve you. \nDoing Terrific Online Research A hands-on session in the computer lab with Elisabeth Donovan\, New Research Editor at the Miami Herald\, leading attendees through online databases\, using public records to check into professional health care workers' backgrounds and how to retrieve medical journal articles. \nThe Next Pandemic: Flu and Emerging Infectious Diseases UNC infectious disease researchers share their front-line experiences tracking down emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as SARS\, influenza\, HIV and malaria. With Myron Cohen\, M.D.\, UNC Professor of Medicine\, Microbiology and Immunology\, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases. \nGenomics — How Journalists Can Crack the Code Covering genetic medicine now goes far beyond lab coats and speculative experiments. Genetic care is quietly working its way into almost every facet of medicine\, bringing new options for care and new dilemmas for patients. To step up your ability to report on this fast-changing field of health care\, come talk about covering and understanding advances in genetic medicine. San Jose Mercury News writer April Lynch will share her recent newspaper series on everyday genetic care and introduce two leading genomics experts. Margaret Pericak-Vance\, Ph.D.\, of the Duke Center for Human Genetics\, and Kirk Wilhelmsen\, Ph.D.\, of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences at UNC\, will discuss the latest genetic advances stemming from work in underlying disorders of the elderly\, including Alzheimer's disease\, Parkinson's disease and age-related macular degeneration. Additional topics will include the genetics of autism and addiction. They will conclude with a discussion of how the Human Genome Project has contributed to improving human health. \n How to Get to Get Universal Health Coverage & Why the Covered Should Care Duke health policy expert Christopher Conover\, PhD\, UNC's Dr. Thomas Ricketts\, from the School of Public Health and School of Medicine\, and Emory Health Care's Dr. Art Kellermann will discuss ways to achieve universal health coverage\, the problems with the current system and why covering more people with health insurance matters… even to those who are already covered. \nCharity Care: Are Nonprofit Hospitals Doing Enough? Mississippi attorney Richard Scruggs\, who made a name for himself suing Big Tobacco\, now has American nonprofit hospitals in his sights. He's sued dozens of hospitals and health systems over how these providers provide free or reduced-price care. Hospitals argue they're doing more than their fair share and they shouldn't shoulder all the burden of those without health insurance. Hear Mr. Scruggs and an American Hospital Association representative square off on charity care. Paul Barr\, a Modern Health Care reporter who has covered the issue\, will provide some tips on looking at your own hospital's charity care numbers. \nBiosafety\, Bioterror: The New National Centers The National Institutes of Health has funded eight Regional Centers of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infections and nine new research buildings nationally. Duke received funding to organize the Southeast RCE and to build a regional biocontainment laboratory\, the Duke Global Health Research Building (GHRB)\, to support RCE and local public health research needs. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is also building a similar isolation facility with state and philanthropic funds. Dr. Richard Frothingham\, director of the GHRB\, and Dr. David Weber\, an epidemiologist and associate professor at UNC\, will discuss the impact of these new centers on their local communities and how basic research can provide new capacity to respond to national and regional biodefense emergencies and emerging infectious diseases. \nAging: The Missing Links in Covering Seniors' Health The huge baby boom is about to age America rapidly: Starting in 2005\, a majority of boomers will be 50 or older. Yet\, journalists who cover health issues in aging often find that to cover issues in aging\, they need to go beyond the disease-of-the-week approach that dominated much of medical journalism in the past. This all-star panel includes four of the nation's top authorities on key facets of health in aging: public health issues in chronic illness and disability\, demographics\, biomedical ethics in the age of life extension and the link between health and the human spirit at the end of life. Paul Kleyman\, editor of Aging Today\, will modeate the session that features panelists: \n\n Robert H. Binstock\, PhD\, Professor\, Aging\, Health and Society\, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Binstock is the leading political scientist in gerontology. The author or editor of 23 books\, he most recently co-edited The Fountain of Youth: Cultural\, Scientific and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal\, Oxford\, 2004.\nKenneth G. Manton\, PhD\, Scientific Director of the Center for Demographic Studies at Duke University; Research Professor of Demographic Studies\, Medical Research Professor of the Duke University Medical Center Department of Community & Family Medicine \, Center for Demographic Studies. Manton heads the highly influential National Long-Term Care Survey and will discuss findings\, including initial results from the 23-year round in 2004\, which connect the dots between demographic\, biomedical and epidemiological data on the future of aging and disability. \n Richard Payne\, MD\, Director and Esther Colliflower Professor\, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life\, Duke University Divinity School. Payne joined the faculty at Duke in 2004 after building his reputation as a major authority on end-of-life care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute in New York. At Duke\, he is directing a major new study examining the interaction between health\, mental health and spiritual health in elders.\n Donna F. Stroup\, Ph.D.\, M.Sc. \, Acting\, Director Coordinating Center for Health Promotion\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stroup oversees the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion\, established by CDC Director Julie Gerberding\, MD\, as part of CDC's Futures Initiative. She will discuss emerging public health issues for elders relating to chronic illness and disability. She will also highlight CDCs new report\, "States of Health and Aging in America." \n\nGetting the Big Picture II Tired of being whipsawed by one study that says "this" and then the next study says "that?" Help your readers and audiences cut through the hype and confusion of single-study. Explore the unique Cochrane Library of systematic reviews in a hands-on computer lab session. (Note: This session is a second offering of the Cochrane computer lab only.) URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/2005-ahcj-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20041022T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20041023T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150803Z UID:23344-1098406800-1098493200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Reliable Reporting: Making Sense of Medical Evidence DESCRIPTION:The first regional conference sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.\n \nSupported with a grant from the VA Outcomes Group\, White River Jct.\, Vt. and The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences\, Dartmouth Medical School\, Hanover\, N.H. \nHotel: Fireside Inn & Suites \nAgenda\nFriday\, Oct. 22 \n\nOpening Reception — 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Ron Winslow\, veteran health care reporter at the Wall Street Journal\, will discuss story ideas and how to make your stories better. \n\nSaturday\, Oct. 23 \n\n8 a.m. — Board buses from Fireside Inn and Suites to the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School \n8:30 a.m. — Continental Breakfast \n9 a.m. — Welcome \n9:15 a.m.-noon — Developing a taste for medical statistics and serving them up right to readers Presenters: Drs. Lisa Schwartz and Steven WoloshinMaking medical statistics meaningful to the public can be a challenge. Many people\, including journalists\, have trouble with numbers. It's easy to make statistics needlessly hard and forget their context.This session will: \n\n Review common medical statistics used to describe the chance of disease and the benefit of interventions like medication\, screening\, surgery and a change in lifestyle. \nProvide examples of how these statistics are reported in ways that are misleading or likely to be misunderstood \nSuggest simple ways to communicate medical statistics effectively. \n\nNoon-1 p.m. — Box lunch \n1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.– Reporting Clinical Research: Credibility\, Trust\, and the Mark of Zorro Presenter: Dr. Drummond RennieEditors of medical journals and mainstream reporters have the same responsibilities: convey the results of clinical research faithfully\, critically and with a minimum of bias. But just as their audiences differ\, editors and reporters will inevitably differ in their training\, the speed with which they work\, the space or time they have to complete their jobs\, the pressures and their relationship to their bosses. Using real instances of problems\, this session will focus on the need to maintain and restore credibility. Dr. Rennie will discuss the meaning of trust — with illustrations from the Mark of Zorro — and show how easily trust and credibility break down. Dr. Rennie will identify what journalists should keep in mind when judging the integrity\, as well as the science\, of a manuscript or a published article. \n2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. — There's No Place Like Home: Evaluating Local Health Care Presenter: Dr. Elliott Fisher Recent research on the causes of the nearly two-fold differences in spending across the U.S. for people over age 65 threatens our assumptions. Until now\, journalists and policy makers have largely assumed such increases in spending are an unavoidable consequence of an aging population and advancing technology. This session will: \n\n Review recent research on geographic variations in spending — and its implications for health and health care; and \nHelp participants learn how to obtain national and local data on local health system performance from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care website. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops for the "hands on" session\, but laptops are not required; those without laptops will learn how to access the data through handouts and demonstration.\n\n5:30 p.m. — Farewell \n5:45 p.m. — Buses back to hotel \n\nSpeakers include: \n\nDr. Lisa Schwartz and Dr. Steven Woloshin –– general internists and senior research associates in the VA Outcomes Group\, White River Junction\, VT and associate professors of medicine and community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Their work focuses on improving the communication of medical information to patients\, physicians\, journalists\, and policymakers and has appeared in leading medical journals.\nDr. Drummond Rennie\, Deputy Editor (West)\, Journal of the American Medical Association and Professor of Medicine\, University of California San Francisco. Past President of the Council of Science Editors and the World Association of Medical Editors\, he has dedicated himself to researching the influence of money on the conduct and reporting of clinical research. \nDr. Elliott S. Fisher\, professor of medicine and community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. He is also co-director of the VA Outcomes Group. He helps produce the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care\, which examines geographic variations in medical practice and the consequences on health.\nRon Winslow\, deputy editor\, health and science\, and a senior medical and health care writer for the Wall Street Journal. In the past 15 years\, he has written more than 1\,000 articles describing new medical and health care research and chronicling the economic forces transforming the nation's health care system. In 2003\, Mr. Winslow received the American Heart Association's Howard L. Lewis Award for his coverage of cardiovascular disease. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/reliable-reporting-making-sense-of-medical-evidence/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20040326T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20040329T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150801Z UID:23345-1080262800-1080522000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:2004 AHCJ Conference DESCRIPTION:Get presentations and handouts from the conference\n\n\nConference Sponsors \n\n\nProgram\nFriday\, March 26 \n1:30 – 5 p.m. The Economics of Pharmaceuticals — Sponsored by the Foundation for American Communications (FACS)\, the opening session will focus on pharmaceutical issues in the news. First\, a primer on the economics of the pharmaceutical industry by Steven Schondelmeyer\, who heads the University of Minnesota's Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems. He is the professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Century Mortar Club Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Management and Economics. \nAt 3:30\, a panel will explore the growing issue of the reimportation of drugs from Canada. The panel will feature Commissioner Kevin Goodno\, the director of the Minnesota Department of Health Services\, the state's "point person" on reimportation; Chris Ward\, a representative of the Pharmaceutical Reserach and Manufacturer's of America (PhRMA) who is president of Ward Health Strategies\, and a representative of the Canadian Consul General's office. \n5:30 – 7 p.m. Reception with Cash Bar Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center \nThis event will be held at McNamara Alumni Center\, 200 Oak Street S.E.\, across the street from the hotel. \n7 — 8:30 p.m. PLENARY: The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research — Elias Zerhouni\, Director of the National Institutes of Health\, will speak about the road map he's plotting for the future of NIH and what he intends to accomplish as NIH director. A question-and-answer period will follow his presentation. \nSaturday\, March 27\n8:30 a.m. — noon WORKSHOPS Understanding Evidence-based Medicine (Basic) — Back by popular demand\, prize-winning Australian journalist Ray Moynihan will repeat the highly successful workshop held at the 2003 conference. You will learn how to select the best medical evidence to write the finest story on deadline. And\, you'll find out how to replace misleading medical story formulas with informative\, compelling stories destined for Page One. Advance registration required. Limited to 30 participants. REQUIRED Homework for Evidence-Based Medicine Assignment: \n\nRisks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: Principal Results From the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative Investigators. JAMA 2002 (PDF)\n Fletcher\, S Colditz\, G Failure of Estrogen Plus Progestin Therapy for Prevention JAMA 2002;288:366-368 (PDF)\nLessons of the Hormone Replacement Debacle\, By Thomas J. Moore\n\nRECOMMENDED Homework for Evidence-Based Medicine Assignment: \n\nTipsheet for reporting on drugs\, devices and medical technologies\n Moynihan R\, Heath I\, Henry D. Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering. BMJ 2002; 324: 886-891 \n Moynihan\, R The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction BMJ 2003; 326: 45-47 \n Moynihan R.\, et al Coverage by the News Media of the Benefits and Risks of Medications\, Abstract N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1645-1650\, Jun 1\, 2000.\n\nVitamins\, Supplements and Drugs: Understanding the FDA –This complex federal agency continues to be the source of a plethora of health stories. Scott Gottlieb\, senior advisor for medical technology for the FDA\, will give you the inside skinny on how to navigate the agency. Anna Mathews\, a Wall Street Journal reporter who focuses on the FDA\, will also give you tips and story ideas to pursue. Advance registration required. Limited to 50 participants. \nIs Your Local Hospital Any Good? — Two veteran health care journalists\, Charlie Ornstein of the Los Angeles Times and Karl Stark of The Philadelphia Inquirer\, will show you how to find specific information about your local hospital and turn it into a story or two. By the end of this session\, you will walk out with a disk full of data and the guts of a story. Limited to 30 participants. \nMaking Numbers Tell A Story — If you don't know how to make sense and make stories out of databases\, here's your chance to learn. This will cover the basics. Every reporter needs to understand at least the basics of database reporting for your reporters' bag 'o tricks. This will be taught by one of the best: Ron Nixon formerly a trainer for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting before joining the Star-Tribune staff in Minneapolis.Limited to 20 participants. \n Uncovering Accounting Tomfoolery\, Part 1 – Given the trials and tribulations of Tenet\, HealthSouth and other giant health care companies\, we thought it was time to bring in the big guns. Hear from Jay Taparia\, principal with Sanksakar Investments in Chicago and a representative of the Association for Investment Management and Research\, a not-for-profit group for security analysts\, investment advisors\, portfolio managers and other investment professionals If anyone can bring you up to speed in writing about these complex issues\, these folks can. This group has put on seminars for Reuters\, Forbes\, Dow Jones. Advance registration required. Limited to 25 participants. \nNoon – 1 p.m. LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (Plenty of places near the hotel.) \n1 – 2:30 p.m. Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine (Advanced\, Part 1) – Steve Woolf\, a former member of the US Preventative Services Task Force and a specialist in family practice\, preventive medicine\, and public health at Virginia Commonwealth University\, will offer more invaluable instruction to help you interpret medical evidence and produce accurate stories with the proper context. He will be joined by Mark Zweig\, who works for the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. This is for participants who already have a basic understanding of relative risk and other fundamentals of epidmiology. Advance registration required. Limited to 30 participants. \n Uncovering Accounting Tomfoolery\, Part 2 – Given the trials and tribulations of Tenet\, HealthSouth and other giant health care companies\, we thought it was time to bring in the big guns. Hear from Jay Taparia\, principal with Sanksakar Investments in Chicago and a representative of the Association for Investment Management and Research\, a not-for-profit group for security analysts\, investment advisors\, portfolio managers and other investment professionals If anyone can bring you up to speed in writing about these complex issues\, these folks can. This group has put on seminars for Reuters\, Forbes\, Dow Jones. Advance registration required. Limited to 25 participants. \nHow I Got the (Print) Story – Glenn Howatt\, a business investigative reporter with the StarTribune in Minneapolis\, was part of the newspaper’s team that probed the Parker Hughes Cancer Center and its founder\, Dr. Fatih Uckun. The series\, Profiting from Hope\, reported that patients were subjected to what experts called unnecessary and inappropriate care and extraordinary charges for repeat visits. The stories also reported the clinic had inflated the credentials of some of its doctors. Let Glenn tell you some of the war stories behind THE story. \n How I Made the (Broadcast) Story – Hear from one of the country’s best broadcast journalists about how to capture health policy stories on television. Award-winning documentary producer Jon Palfreman will discuss his recent production\, "The Other Drug War." He has won a Peabody\, an Emmy and duPont-Columbia Silver Baton and is the only television producer ever to receive the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing. \n Surviving in a Difficult Freelance Market\, Part 1 – This is one of a two-part session for freelancers that will cover how to negotiate a contract\, find new markets\, employ techniques of technical/medical writing\, write a book proposal and manage time.Panelists include: Debra Gordon\, Freelance Writer/Editor; Roxanne Nelson\, Freelance Writer; Mariska Van Aalst\, Editor\, Women’s Publishing Group\, Rodale and Alisa Bauman\, Author. Advance registration required. \n2:30 – 3 p.m. Break \n3 – 4:30 p.m. Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine (Advanced\, Part 2) – Steve Woolf\, a former member of the US Preventative Services Task Force and a specialist in family practice\, preventive medicine\, and public health at Virginia Commonwealth University\, will offer more invaluable instruction to help you interpret medical evidence and produce accurate stories with the proper context. He will be joined by Mark Zweig\, who works for the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. This is for participants who already have a basic understanding of relative risk and other fundamentals of epidmiology.Limited to 30 participants. \nHow I Got the (Print) Story – The Orange County Register recently published an extensive one-day package called "Hospital Report Card" on the quality of hospitals after developing a report card. Hear first-hand from Bernard Wolfson\, one of the reporters\, how the story was developed and the community’s response. \nTen Ways to Beef Up TV Health News — Gary Schwitzer\, former head of CNN Medical News Unit and now on the University of Minnesota's journalism faculty\, will present a fascinating analysis of health news coverage. Minneapolis-St. Paul television news directors Jeff Kiernan and Ted Canova will discuss the challenges of covering TV health news. \nSurviving in a Difficult Market\, Part 2 – This is second of a two-part session for freelancers covering how to negotiate a contract\, find new markets\, employ techniques of technical/medical writing\, write a book proposal and manage your time. \n5:30 – 7 p.m. Opening Night Reception/Light Dinner (Cash bar) \n7 – 8 p.m. Plenary Address \nMedical Mistakes: Why They Keep on Happening by Robert Wachter\, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California\, San Francisco and author of Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind the Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. Read what Atul Gwande and others say about this book. \nSunday\, March 28 \n7 – 8 a.m. Fun Run \n8 — 9 a.m.Continental Breakfast \n 9 – 10:30 a.m. BREAKOUTS Cheating the Mentally Ill — Are patients with mental illnesses getting short shrift when it comes to the quality of medical services? Charlotte Mullican\, who works for the Center for Outcomes Effectiveness Research at AHRQ\, will give an overview on the latest findings. Then\, Paul Raeburn\, former president of the National Association of Science Writers\, will offer his perspective on the quality of mental health car and discuss his experiences as a reporter covering health care and as a father of a son with bipolar disorder and a daughter with depression. Raeburn has just completed a book\, Acquainted with the Night\, a memoir of his experiences with his children’s illnesses. \nThe Medical Arms Race: Getting the Global Perspective from the Frontlines – A gold mine of stories on the dazzling array of medical devices and how they're changing the practice of medicine await enterprising reporters. Yet because of a disconnect between science\, business and policy\, reporters might miss the full picture. Susan Foote\, a health policy expert who has advised the FDA and the NIH on the medical device industry\, will take you through the trenches\, pointing out the booby traps that trip up reporters. She will help you understand the dynamics at play when a new technology emerges. Laurie McGinley\, a Wall Street Journal reporter\, will discuss how to craft these stories and sell them to Luddite editors. \n Conflicts of Interests: Theirs and Ours – How do we report on conflicts of interests involving medical research and how do we deal with our own journalistic conflicts? Kelly McBride\, an ethicist with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies\, and Ray Moynihan\, an award-winning Australian journalist\, will lead the discussion. Attendees will have an opportunity to review and discuss a draft AHCJ code of ethics/statement of principles. This session will conclude at 11 a.m. \nHIV/AIDS: What's Left to Report? — Now that HIV/AIDS is turning into a chronic illness\, the story is shifting to funding of services for these patients. Each year\, about 40\,000 more people are infected. At the same time\, funding for services has been scaled back and many states already have waiting lists for patients. This is another one of those stories that shouldn't be ignored. Jennifer Kates\, director of HIV Policy for the Kaiser Family Foundation\, and Steve Sternberg\, a reporter for USA Today\, will help you get a handle on this always complicated but still compelling topic. \n10:30 – 11 a.m. Break \n11 – 1 p.m. Plenary Brunch FOIA: Where It Is Now – Every journalist should hear Lucy Dalglish\, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press\, explain the current situation and what’s being done to safeguard the public’s right to information about our governments. Just be prepared to leave this session scared as hell\, but determined not to take it anymore. \n 1 – 1:30 p.m. Break \n 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Annual Membership Meeting — Join the AHCJ Board of Directors to hear about some exciting new AHCJ projects. Learn about the board's vision for long-term stability. Air your grievances. Offer your feedback. \n 2:30 – 3 p.m. Break \n 3 – 4:30 p.m. BREAKOUTS Hottest Spots: Stock Analysts Dish the Dirt on Health Stocks — Thom Gunderson\, who tracks the sizzle of what’s hot and what’s not in health care for Piper Jaffray Cos.\, and John Fargnoli\, a not-for-profit healthcare analyst at S&P\, will offer their views on what the next year will bring\, what stories are about to break and what stories should get follow-up after an already tumultuous year. \n Stem Cell Research Hits Adolescence — Where’s the edge of research? What’s next now that the Bush Administration has decided to fund research on human embryonic stem cells. Catherine Verfaillie\, who has been named one of the top 10 scientists in the country and head of the University of Minnesota’s Stem Cell Institute\, will lead this discussion. \nTelemedicine: Rx for Rural Health? — Some experts think telemedicine is a model that will help give patients access to top quality health care – even if they live in the modern wilderness. Here from two experts on the frontlines. Nina Antoniotti\, director of the Marshfield Clinic's TeleHealth Network in Wisconsin\, has firsthand experience with efforts providers are making to reach patients in rural areas. Tim Size\, executive director of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative\, will provide the context. \nA Long Way Home — Using the Nursing Home Watch List — Consumers Union will tell you about new research to help you understand what makes a bad facility and how residents are being hurt. And\, you'll learn how the current financing system affects quality of care. Panelists include: Bob Kane\, University of Minnesota prrofessor who holds the Minnesota Chair of Long-Term Care and Aging; Catherine Hawes\, a professor of gerontology at Texas A&M University and Iris Freeman\, who founded Advocacy Strategy\, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in the Twin Cities. \nInside TV Medical News — From documentaries to news\, what goes into creating a successful medical broadcast show? How can we keep it accurate and informative\, yet real and entertaining? Get a behind-the-scenes look from the producer of the highly successful Discovery Health Channel show "The Residents." Learn how he captures the reality of the resident training years (cameras in the hospitals\, permission in the HIPAA era\, tricks of the trade) and hear from the writer/producer of "News Breaks" on how to keep the public informed about important topics in medicine\, health\, and science and still break new ground. The general manager of Discovery Health will join us in a discussion about the future of television health news. \n5:30 – 7 p.m. Reception Sponsored by Discovery Health Channel Dinner of your own — We'll supply a list of popular dining spots. You can create informal groups and split cab fare. \n Monday\, March 29 \n7:30 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. PLENARY Biotech On Our Plates: What Are They Doing To Our Food? — Marion Nestle\, professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University and author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health\, David Schmidt\, vice president of the International Food Information Council\, and Chuck Muskoplat\, dean of the University of Minnesota's College of Agriculture and a widely recognized scientist and leader in biotechnology and its application to human\, plant and animal improvement\, will discuss how our food is turning into nutraceuticals and what the implications are for our health\, our econony and the environment. \n10 – 10:15 a.m. Break (Mayo Clinic Field Trip participants leave.) \n10:15 – 11:45 a.m. BREAKOUTS \n Emerging Infections: Inciting Fear or Educating the Public? As public health experts scramble to contain new infections like SARS and the avian bird flu\, reporters are struggling with how to cover the topic. This will be a give-and-take conversation with Michael Osterholm\, a nationally recognized infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota and Gregory Poland\, an infectious disease specialist from the Mayo Clinic. Both advise the federal goverment. They will discuss why the media needs to pay attention to emerging infections and provide story ideas on how to cover them. \nPlaying the Game\, Making the Rules: Consumer-Driven Health Plans — This session will examine the benefits and pitfalls of consumer-driven health care. Join Trudy Lieberman\, Consumer Reports' health policy editor and Lee Newcomer\, founder of Vivius\, a Minnesota-based seller of consumer driven approaches; Michael Parkinson\, an executive with Lumenos\, a firm that markets consumer-driven insurance products to employers and Paul Fronstin\, a senior research associate at the Employees Benefit Research Institute\, to discuss this new approach. This session is sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. \nLegislative Sausage: How Health Policy Is Made – It’s an ugly process\, but someone has to do it. Hear from some Washington insiders who will tell the behind-the-scenes stories of health care legislation and rule-making. They will include Ed Howard\, executive vice-president of the Alliance for Health Reform\, John Rother\, director of policy and strategy for AARP\, Cybele Bjorklund\, staff director for the Subcommittee on Health House Ways and Means Committee\, and Linda Fishman\, formerly on the staff of Republican Senator Charles Grassley. This session is sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. \nNeglected Stepchild: Native American Health Issues — Health problems that have a unique impact among Native Americans are rising to the top of news budgets across the country. Yvette Roubideaux\, assistant professor at the University of Arizona\, is well-known for her research in an area rich with story possibilities. And Judy Nichols\, a senior reporter at The Arizona Republic\, will offer tips and her perspective on covering this important topic. This session is sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. \nNoon – 1:30 p.m. BOX LUNCH Health Care Prosecutions: The States Get Aggressive – Two attorneys general – from Mike Hatch from Minnesota and Peg Lautenschlager from Wisconsin – discuss what has led to some ground-breaking prosecutions of health care companies and other efforts to protect consumers' interests in a world where the big muscle is often big companies. \n 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Break \n1:45– 3:45 p.m. BREAKOUTS AND FIELD TRIPS \n Blue On Blue: When Blue Cross Plans Try To Merge — In the late 90s\, companies would swoop in and buy struggling Blues plans without a challenge from regulators and consumers. Now\, life ain’t so easy for the Blues. Hear from experts\, including Tom Hefty\, former CEO of Wisconsin Blue Cross Blue Shield and CEO of Cobalt\, the merged for-profit company; Steve Larsen\, former insurance commissioner for Maryland; and Laurie Sobel\, senior attorney for Consumers’ Union. They will help you understand nuances of the story that you may have missed. Advance regisration required. \n Mayo Clinic: Cutting Edge Research – Since its founding more than 100 years ago\, Mayo Clinic has earned a reputation of excellence through clinical expertise\, research\, and education. This tour will highlight recent and promising research conducted by Mayo scientists and physicians in heart disease\, transplant\, cancer\, and molecular pharmacology (how medicines interact with genes). Speakers will explain the latest findings\, current and future applications. You will see labs where discoveries are made and how innovations in patient care are developed. This half-day program will offer journalists story ideas and background information on medicine and science. And\, since it’s 90 minutes each way\, you’ll have plenty of time to pick the brains of your colleagues. Well worth the trip. Advance registration required. Limited to 40 participants. \n Field Trip to Medtronic — Medical devices are the next big boom in the health care industry. Learn how what starts out as an idea in a researcher's mind turns into a medical device worth millions. You'll tour Medtronic\, one of the world's major medical device manufacturing plants\, and hear from the research and business sides. Advance registration required. Limited to 30 participants. \n Field Trip on Innovative Cancer Therapies — The University of Minnesota Cancer Center has a history of developing new technologies in the laboratory and translating them\, through clinical research\, into innovative therapies. For example\, U of Minnesota researchers performed the world’s first bone marrow transplant for lymphoma and created the first animal model for the study of bone cancer. Tour the Cancer Center research facility as presenters discuss promising therapies\, such as cancer vaccines and activated “natural killer” cells\, that trigger the body’s immune system to fight cancer. This will be an interactive lab tour with a “lab-to-therapy” overview and discussion of some novel developments in cancer prevention and care.Advance registration required. Limited to 30 participants. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/2004-ahcj-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20030315T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20030318T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150800Z UID:23343-1047690000-1047949200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHCJ 2003 Conference DESCRIPTION:The program included 31 sessions with more than 60 speakers. Download a PDF version of the program. \nDon't forget to check out our sponsors and exhibitors. \nConference Proceedings\nWhen Terrorism Strikes: Reporting the StoryThis session was aimed at helping journalists avoid pitfalls and get the scoop when covering medical disasters. It's available as an MP3 file. \nLow or Lost Libido: Treating Women's Desire DisordersIn the last 20 years\, low libido and loss of sexual desire have emerged as major sexual issues. Both men and women have this problem\, but it afflicts many more women. \nAn Overview of the Mind-Body Approach to Female Sexual Dissatisfaction By Laura A. C. Berman\, LCSW\, PhD\, Clinical Professor\, OBGYN\, Psychiatry\, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Director\, Berman Center\, Chicago\, IL. Download the presentation in PDF format. \nFemale Sexual Health Mary Lake Polan\, MD\, PhD\, MPH\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics\, Stanford University\, School of Medicine. Download the presentation in PDF format. \nBalance or ballyhoo in coverage of new drugsThere is evidence that some newspapers and broadcasts are still more promotional than skeptical in the news coverage of some new technologies in health care. One of the worst traps seems to occur in the coverage of pharmaceutical clinical trials. Presenation from Gary Schwitzer\, University of Minnesota\, School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Download the presentation in PDF format. \nFOLLOW THE VIRUS: Reporting on AIDSMark Schoofs won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for a series on AIDS in Africa when he worked for the Village Voice. Now a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal\, Schoofs is a Kaiser Visiting Fellow and on a year’s leave to write a book on global AIDS. Download his speech and slides (both in PDF format). \nRiding the Winds of Change: John KitzhaberJohn Kitzhaber\, whose last term as governor of Oregon ended in January\, is a former ER doctor whose administration produced the Oregon Health Plan\, an evidence-based state formulary and other groundbreaking health policies. Download the speech in PDF format. \nE-Health: Hope or HypeDavid J. Brailer\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Chief Executive Officer\, CareScience\, Principal Investigator\, Clinical Data Sharing Project. Download the presentation in PDF format. \nTrials and TribulationsJill Wechsler\, Washington Editor\, Applied Clinical Trials magazine. Download the presentation in PDF format. \nHIPAA Boot Camp: The Basics of HIPAA for Health Care JournalistsJim Moynihan\, McLure-Moynihan Inc. www.mmiec.com. Download the presentation in PDF format. \n Audio versions of three plenary presentations are available for purchase on a CD-ROM. The cost is $5 for conference attendees\, $20 for AHCJ members who didn't attend the conference and $30 for anyone else. To order\, send an e-mail to info@healthjournalism.org or call 612-624-8877. The CD-ROM includes: \n\n\nSurgeon General Richard Carmona. You'll want to listen to this. He tells his life story\, which influences the policy decisions he makes. This is an engaging speech. The AV guy who recorded it came up and THANKED us because this speech was so compelling. Download the mp3 file. \nJohn Kitzhaber\, the former governor of Oregon\, held us in rapt attention. He offers a provocative view of the health system. This speech will give any reporter who covers consumer health\, medical research\, the business of health and health policy some important insights. Includes Q&A. \nMark Schoofs\, a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal on leave as a Visiting Kaiser Fellow to write a book about the global impact of AIDS. Includes Q&A. Schoofs takes an old subject and offers a smart\, sophisticated take on the AIDS problem. He also presents some concrete ideas for reporting on AIDS from any part of the country. You can also download pdf versions of Schoofs' dynamic speech and slides. Includes Q& A. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-2003-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20020406T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20020409T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T145023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150759Z UID:23342-1018054800-1018314000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHCJ 2002 Conference DESCRIPTION:The Third National Conference was a great success with over 200 attendees\, a plethora of speakers and 19 exhibitors. \nConference proceedings\n\n"What is the Real Significance of Bioterrorism and HIV/AIDS?" Webcast of Laurie Garrett\, the only journalist to have won a Pulitzer\, a Peabody and a Polk\, speaks on the real significance of bioterrorism and HIV/AIDS. This is the plenary session from Sunday\, April 7. Courtesy of kaisernetwork.org \nCovering Capitol Hill from Beyond the Beltway Webcast of Veteran Capitol Hill health reporter Julie Rovner shares her favorite tricks of the trade\, including using the Internet\, to get the information quickly. This session was on Sunday afternoon. Courtesy of kaisernetwork.org \nCancer Screening: Benefits and Risks PowerPoint handouts in PDF format from Barnet S. Kramer\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, Office of Disease Prevention\, NIH. This is from the Cancer Screening: The Clash of Intuition and Medical Science session on Tuesday\, April 9. \nWriting it Right: What Journalists Need to Understand About Drugs and Addiction PowerPoint handouts in PDF format from Wilkie A. Wilson\, Ph.D.\, Duke Medical Center. These handouts are from the Understanding Substance Abuse: Research\, Federal Policy and Media Campaigns session on Saturday morning. \nRoom for Improvement: Quality of Care in the U.S. PowerPoint handouts in PDF format from Stephen C. Schoenbaum\, MD\, MPH from the Commonwealth Fund. \nCovering Health: Avoiding the Traps A tip sheet in PDF format from Deborah Potter\, Executive Director\, Newslab\, from the Saturday\, April 6 session\, Covering Health News on Television. \nEpidemiology: Some Boot-Camp Basics An outline in PDF format from Barbara Gastel\, MD\, MPH\, from the Boot Camp workshop on Saturday\, April 6. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-2002-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20010322T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20010324T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T144925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150758Z UID:23341-985222800-985395600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHCJ 2001 National Conference DESCRIPTION:Webcast of the sessions featuring Dr. Louis Sullivan and Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. \nPowerPoint Presentations \n\nAlcohol Advertising and Adolescent Drinking Joel W. Grube\,Center for Adolescent and Child Health Research \nThe Health Genome Project: Implications for Health\, Health Care and Society Alan E. Guttmacher\, M.D. Senior Clinical Advisor to the Director National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health \nHow the Health Care Trade and Mainstream Media Can Work Better Together John Novack\, Associate Publisher\, Opus Communications\, a division of HCPro \n\nHandouts \n\nMyths and Facts About the New Federal Privacy Regulation From the Health Privacy Project \nOverview of HIPAA Privacy Regulation From the Health Privacy Project \nHow the Health Care Trade and Mainstream Media Can Work Better Together–Resource Sheets \n\nResources for Reporters Covering Health Care Fraud Mark Taylor\, Modern Healthcare \nOnline Resources for Health Care Reporters John Novack\, Opus Communications\, a division of HcPro \n\nPrescription Drug Spending is Already Enough to buy all the Drugs Americans Need Alan Sager\, Ph.D. and Deborah Socolar\, M.P.H. \nA Prescription Drug Peace Treaty–Cutting Prices to Make Prescription Drugs Affordable for all and to Protect Research (Summary and Selected Exhibit) Alan Sager\, Ph.D. and Deborah Socolar\, M.P.H. Professor of Health Services Research Analyst Sponsors URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-2001-national-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20000504T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20000506T010000 DTSTAMP:20260404T151352 CREATED:20231025T144924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T150757Z UID:23340-957402000-957574800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:AHCJ 2000 Inaugural National Conference DESCRIPTION:Highlights and webcasts \n\nPresidential candidate address by Al Gore\nAccess to Health Care – The Issue That Won't Go Away\nHow the Internet is Changing the Face of Healthcare (webcast\, transcript and Powerpoint slides) \n\nSponsors\nThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The California HealthCare Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Northwestern Memorial Hospital URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-2000-inaugural-national-conference/ CATEGORIES:Annual Conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR