About Preventive Medicine 2009
February 11-14, 2009
Los Angeles, CA

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Preventive Medicine 2009, the annual meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine, is the premier event for professionals in disease prevention and health promotion. The meeting advances the science and practice of preventive medicine through state-of-the-art educational programming and abundant networking opportunities.  

Preventive Medicine 2009 will include exciting sessions in Clinical Preventive Medicine, Public Health Practice, and Prevention Policy within its three conference tracks. In addition, Preventive Medicine 2009 attendees will have access to multiple sessions in quality improvement, teaching prevention, and career development.  

Conference Objectives

 At the end of the conference, attendees will be able to:

• Acquire the information and skills necessary to convey issues and evidence-based recommendations in population health and prevention policy.
• Describe innovative approaches to public health issues and advances in public health programs.

• Understand current recommendations for assessing health risks and delivering effective, evidence based clinical preventive services to individuals and populations.
• Describe career options and pathways in both the public sector and private sector, and explain the challenges and opportunities present in changing jobs and career focus throughout the professional lifetime of a preventive medicine physician.
• Describe the value brought to the emerging 21^st-century health care system from innovative and effective “best practices” in interprofessional, interdisciplinary and community-based strategic partnerships focused on the teaching, research and practice of prevention.
• Understand how to apply quality improvement tools and techniques to continuously improve healthcare processes and programs.

Meeting Tracks

Preventive Medicine 2009 will be featuring state-of-the-art educational sessions and skill building institutes within three conference tracks:

• Clinical Preventive Medicine: This track covers a wide range of topics in evidence-based clinical prevention, including health promotion, early clinical detection and case-finding, counseling and risk factor modification, and intervention.
   
• Public Health Practice: This track encompasses innovations in population-based approaches to preventing and controlling disease. Sessions on this track aim to emphasize issues of public health significance.
   
• Prevention Policy: This track seeks to provide participants with an understanding of important and emerging national policy issues of concern to preventive medicine professionals, and to improve participants’ effectiveness in addressing policy issues of concern in their own communities.
   
• Career Development Subtrack: The Career Development Subtrack provides medical students, residents, and recent graduates the opportunity to learn about the breadth of career opportunities offered in preventive medicine, occupational medicine, and public health.  Two conference sessions focus on gathering panelists from both the public and private sectors into an open discussion with those looking to understand the variety of career possibilities preventive medicine provides.  In addition, this track will facilitate an informal evening social networking event allowing potential employers and recruiters to meet those looking for job opportunities.

Additional sessions in quality improvement and teaching prevention will be available to attendees of Preventive Medicine 2009 as part of an integrated conference schedule organized in conjunction with Medical Quality 2009, the annual meeting of the American College of Medical Quality, and Teaching Prevention 2009, the annual meeting of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research.  The conference also features several career development sessions for the young physicians, residents, and medical students, as well as the mid-career physician looking to refocus his/her practice toward prevention.

Who should attend?

ACPM members, physicians, federal, state, and local government employees, corporate medical directors, nurses, residents, medical students, health plan managers, preventive medicine faculty, and other decision makers from professional physician associations and the public health field.

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