The world’s most important gathering and training event in health care journalism will take place at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Denver. There will be dozens of workshops, panels and roundtable discussions featuring some of the best minds in medicine, health policy, research, public health and business.

Our spotlight speakers include 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,” due 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). Gov. John Hickenlooper will welcome attendees to Colorado during the conference kickoff.