Practice Improvement Conference to Focus on Infectious, Communicable Diseases

By News Staff
8/22/2007

If you want to move your practice to the next level -- focusing on disease prevention, using collaborative teams, incorporating technology and empowering patients -- then attend the 2007 Conference on Practice Improvement: Health Information and Patient Education, to be held Nov. 8-11 in Newport Beach, Calif. The conference is a joint presentation of the AAFP and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

The meeting's clinical focus is on infectious and communicable diseases. Eminent New York Times personal health columnist Jane Brody will present a plenary speech on "Bringing Prevention Front and Center Into Family Medicine." Other plenary topics are

"Building the Medical Home From the Ground Up" by Terry McGeeney, M.D., CEO of TransforMED, the AAFP's practice redesign initiative, and Bruce Bagley, M.D., AAFP's medical director of quality improvement, and
"The Future of Family Medicine: Education and the Challenges of Infectious Disease" by Theodore Ganiats, M.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and executive director of the UCSD Health Services Research Center. Ganiats also is medical director of the Academy's Annual Clinical Focus program, which in 2008 will cover infectious disease topics.

The practice improvement conference offers skills-building preconference workshops on "How to Make Money for Your Practice: Billing for Patient Education" and "Everything You Need to Know About EMRs and Becoming Productive in the Digital World" -- plus a host of conference seminars, lectures, paper presentations and exhibits.

Register on or before Oct. 8 to save on the conference registration fee. Further information is available online, where you can download the conference brochure (16-page PDF; About PDFs).

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