Conference Coverage

This Conference Coverage spotlights the American Academy of Dermatology's 68th Annual Meeting, March 5 - 9 in Miami Beach, Florida. The 2010 meeting attracted a record number of attendees, and featured 370 sessions, more than 1,300 faculty, and 600 electronic posters, covering biologic drugs, light-based technologies and nanotechnologies, to name a few of the research areas.

Listen to the latest research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2010 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, held March 5 - 7 in San Francisco, California, including findings on prostate, penile and bladder cancer.

Tune in for the latest clinical information and research findings from the 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting, February 26th through March 2nd, in New Orleans. Highlights covered food allergies, asthma in children and adults and personalized medicine.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference brings together more than 28,000 healthcare industry IT experts to see offerings from over 900 exhibitors. It is the largest annual gathering in the healthcare information technology field. This year's exhibit takes on special significance given federal incentives to accelerate adoption of information technology in the healthcare arena. Dr. Matthew Birnholz hosts this second of two programs from the conference.

Guests include:

John Zaleski, VP - Clinical Applications, Nuvon

James King, MD - Past President, American Academy of Family Physicians (interviewed at the Shared Health exhibit)

Michael Mirro, MD, FACC, FACP - Chair, Health Informatics Committee, American College of Cardiology (interviewed at the Medical Informatics Engineering Exhibit)

John Stanley - SVP and CIO of Riverside Health System, Newport News, VA. (interviewed at the Siemens exhibit)

H. Stephen Lieber, CAE - President and CEO, HIMSS

John Mattison, MD - Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California

Christopher Mertens - VP Healthcare Business Group, Hewlett-Packard

Steve Aylward - General Manager, Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference brings together more than 28,000 healthcare industry IT experts to see offerings from over 900 exhibitors. It is the largest annual gathering in the healthcare information technology field. This year's exhibit takes on special significance given federal incentives to accelerate adoption of information technology in the healthcare arena. Dr. Matthew Birnholz hosts this first of two programs from the conference.

Guests include:

H. Stephen Lieber, CAE - President and CEO, HIMSS

John Mattison, MD - Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California

Steve Aylward - General Manager, Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft

Michael Mirro, MD, FACC, FACP - Chair, Health Informatics Committee, American College of Cardiology (interviewed at the Medical Informatics Engineering Exhibit)

ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010.

The theme of the conference - Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care - provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns.

Guests on this program include:

• Alejandro Aparicio, MD, Director, Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development, American Medical Association
• Maureen Doyle-Scharff, MBA, FACME, Senior Director, Medical Education Group, Pfizer, Inc.
• Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, Director of Medical Affairs and Technology, Medical Communications, Media, Inc.

ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010.

The theme of the conference — Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care — provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns.

Guests on this program include:

• Jann Balmer, PhD, President of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education and Director of CME at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Dave Davis, MD, Senior Director, Academic Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges
• George Mejicano, MD, Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health
• Don Detmer, MD, MA, President and chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association
  
  

These Conference Coverage Highlights are from the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 22nd to the 24th in Orlando, Florida. The meeting presented more than 500 abstracts on gastrointestinal cancers affecting the esophagus, stomach, hepatobiliary system, pancreas, small bowel, colon and rectum.

The 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium took place December 9th through the 13th, 2009. The meeting featured more than 1,000 presentations on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease. These highlights cover major findings.

Tune in for highlights and latest research presented at the American Association for Respiratory Care's 55th International Respiratory Congress. This meeting took place in San Antonio, Texas, December 5th through 8th. Findings included the effect of specialized rapid response teams on serious complications like cardiac arrest and respiratory failure, the ability of neonates to ventilate on Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist, or NAVA, and research on the improved prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.