Conferences: Insurance Archives

• Routledge International Health Management
  

  Location: London, England, UK
  Dates: 14-15 September 2006

  Venue: Novotel London West Hotel

  This conference will address hugely topical health management issues within healthcare organisations internationally, whilst thoroughly promoting excellence in healthcare. Editors and Authors from the Routledge Health Management book series will expand on areas covered within the series, and new ways of thinking that have arisen since their publication. In addition, we have chosen an excellent group of speakers, not involved directly with the book series but who will contribute thought provoking ideas and solutions.

  The Routledge Health Management conference will provide the complete platform to stay in touch with vital health management issues, and is essential for all those working within health management and research.

  For full details visit: http://www.tandfevents.com/health

  For a conference brochure, please email: jon.shepherd@informa.com

  Key Speakers will include:

  • Sir Muir Gray,, Policy Officer - DG Energy & Transport, European Commission
  • Dr Helen Bevan, Director of Service Transofrmation, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
  • Davis Balestracci, Quality Improvement Specialist, Harmony Consulting, LLC, USA
  • Dr John Øvretveit, Director of Research, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm/ Professor of Health Management, Faculty of MedicineBergen University, Norway
  • Scott. C. Ratzan, Vice President, Government Affairs Europe, Johnson & Johnson/ EditorJournal of Health Communication

  Benefits of Attending

  • Learn from the international speaker panel, who will report on core developments within health management from around the world
  • Keep up to date with key principles necessary for successful health management within your organisation.
  • Examine topical international case studies and ideas on Health Information Management; Health Operations Management; Leadership in Healthcare; Managing for Health; Performance Management in Healthcare
  • Meet, question and observe significant presentations from authors and editors of the Routledge Health Management book series
  • Gain an exclusive insight into the next edition of the Routledge Health Management series . “Managing for Health” due to be published in January 2007
  • Share best practice with your international colleagues at our unique roundtable discussion sessions, and networking lunches
  • Gain insight into new ways of working to enable the improvement of patient outcomes
  • Take with you a CPD certificate of attendance to add to your academic portfolio

  Places for this event are strictly limited, so to avoid disappointment I would urge you to secure your place today - simply book online at http://www.tandfevents.com/health.

  Alternatively, please call +44 (0)20 7017 5523 for further information.

  P.S. Unable to attend? You can order the speaker papers and/or slides. Just email papers.info@informa.com.

• 6th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care
  

  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Dates: 20-22 September 2006

  Keynote Speakers

  • Dr. Julio Frenk, Minister of Health, Mexico
  • Dr. Norman Daniels, Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Dr. Susan Dorr Goold, Director, Bioethics Program, University of Michigan
  • Dr. Prabhat Jha, Canadian Research Chair, Health & Development, University of Toronto

  Theme: Real World Priority Setting

  Streams:

  • Methods, Approaches and Knowledge Transfer in Real World Priority Setting
  • Priority Setting for New Technologies
  • Priority Setting in mixed Public and Private Systems
  • Values in Priority Setting
  • Priority Setting and the Interaction between the Micro-Meso levels

  It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to the 6th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care. No matter what your background you will find that Toronto ‘06 will be an exhilarating and stimulating opportunity to share experiences and cutting-edge innovations and network with a community of world leaders from over 80 countries who are shaping priority setting practices locally and globally.

  The theme of this year’s conference is Real World Priority Setting - Shaping priority setting around real life innovative practices. This conference is a vital element in the development of modern health systems. Priority setting directly determines the sustainability and quality of health systems, locally, nationally and globally. Moreover, priority setting decisions create and support either equity or inequity, justice or injustice. This is a crucial ‘moment in time’ to build on past learning and forge innovative improvements in real world priority setting contexts — for the good of all the world’s people.

  More information and to register online

  or contact Carolyn Farrell at Carolyn.farrell@utoronto.ca

• Decade of HAART: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions: International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)
  

  Location: San Francisco, California, USA
  Dates: 25-26 September 2006

  Event Type: Meeting (CME and CE available)

  Subject:

  • Health Care Accessibility
  • Health Care Delivery
  • Health Care Planning
  • Health Care Policies
  • HIV/AIDS Treatment or Therapies
  • International Cooperation
  • International Health
  • International Health Policies
  • International Health Programs

  Description: The aim of this two-day meeting is to review the collective progress in 17 developed and developing-world countries with 10 years of experience in HAART delivery, as well as forecast the future impact of HAART.

  For up-to-date information including online registration and program schedule, access the Web site at http://www.iapac.org/ or email decade@iapac.org.

• 16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill: Palliative Care Divising, Depts. of Medicine and Oncology, McGill University
  

  Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
  Dates: 26-29 September 2006

  This event is being held at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Canada.

  Founded by Dr. Balfour Mount in 1976, and presented by the Palliative Care Division of the Departments of Medicine and Oncology of McGill University, this biennial Congress has grown to become one of the premier international events in palliative care.

  Healthcare professionals, therapists, volunteers and all those involved in care for the dying come to renew themselves as providers of care and to obtain the inspiration that will help them shape the palliative care of the future.

  This year’s outstanding programme will feature five plenary sessions, seventy-four workshops, and numerous special seminars, research fora, and symposia.

  Among the highlights:

  • a plenary by Dr. Terry Tafoya, executive director of Tamanawit Unltd.
  • a special presentation by Dr. Balfour Mount, Eric M. Flanders Professor of Palliative Medicine, McGill University (retired), and
  • in-depth symposia addressing topics such as Pediatric Palliative Care, Healing and Whole-Person Care, Non-Cancer End of Life Care, Self-Esteem, Respiratory Palliative Care, and Volunteerism.

  Bringing together over 1200 participants from around the world, the Congress provides an opportunity to review and share the latest developments in research as well as perspectives on end-of-life care from different cultures, spiritual traditions, and p