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Print Document Fall 2007 Newsletter Article (also for Region X) Region IX Co-Chairs: Greg Blaschke, MD, MPH and Alice
Kuo, MD, PhD Our Joint Region IX and X Meeting, the Pediatric CARE (Community, Advocacy, Research and Education) Conference, will be on March 22, 2008 in Los Angeles. The venue will be the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in the downtown area. A welcome reception will be held the evening of March 21, 2008 before a full Saturday of plenary speakers, workshops, presentations, and a poster session at the end of the day with a closing reception. Confirmed speakers from our regions include Carol Berkowitz and Miriam Bar-on, and invited speakers include Neal Halfon. National APA president Peter Szilagyi will also be present. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words and should use a structured abstract format, either the standard PAS format (Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion) or the modified format suggested in the Call for Proposals (timeline, target audience, goals and objectives, activities, outcomes measures and lessons learned in implementation). Topics can be in the areas of community pediatrics, child advocacy, basic or clinical sciences research, health services research, or medical education. If the first author is a current pediatric resident, please indicate the year of training next to the resident’s name. Residents and fellows are strongly encouraged to work with their faculty mentors on their abstract submissions. About 4-6 outstanding submissions will be selected for 15-minute platform presentations and an additional 15-20 abstracts will be selected as posters for display during the CARE conference. Residents or fellows who present posters or platform presentations at the Pediatric CARE Conference will be eligible for 2-3 travel stipend awards to the Honolulu PAS meeting to present at our Regional Breakfast meeting. Please submit abstracts to Region IX co-chair Alice Kuo at akuo@mednet.ucla.edu no later than November 30, 2007. We will notify presenters by December 15, 2007. We welcome any feedback or ideas for APA regional
activities, either locally or at the national meeting.
Please feel free to contact in Region IX: Greg Blaschke
(gregory.blaschke@med.navy.mil) or Alice Kuo (akuo@mednet.ucla.edu)
and in Region X: Patricia Barreto (pbarreto@mednet.ucla.edu)
or Cindy Fe
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