Be sure to check out the AAFP website for information on its educational offerings, from Board Review to Maintenance of Certification SAM Working Groups to conferences on sports medicine, skin diseases, geriatric medicine, and much more.

 Building Capacity to Improve Health for All

Connect with people and places.  Learn what only experience can teach.  Register for the 7^th annual AAFP Family Medicine Global Health Workshop, September 9-11, 2010 in Coral Gables, FL at Coral Gables Hyatt Regency Hotel (www.aafp.org/intl/workshop)

Register by June 26 to receive AAFP discounted rates. 

Join us at the workshop as an attendee or share your experience with others by submitting an abstract. Submit your abstracts by May 17.  

Proposals should encourage information exchange on projects, programs, and initiatives related to the development of family medicine internationally (www.aafp.org/intl/workshop)

Special guest speakers:

–    Donna E. Shalala, PhD, President of University of Miami and former Secretary of Health in President Bill Clinton’s administration;

–    Fitzhugh Mullan, Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University.

Questions? Contact Rebecca Janssen, AAFP International Activities Senior Program Coordinator, at rjanssen@aafp.org.

Students, residents, and health professionals beyond the specialty of family medicine are welcome to submit abstracts.

Desert Net: Arizona Family and Community Medicine Research Network

Through a grant from St Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, the Arizona Family and Community Medicine Research Network—affectionately known as Desert Net—was established in late 2008. It’s an opportunity for those involved in family and community medicine, but not necessarily in academia or research settings, to get together and engage in small research projects. Desert Net participants are still discussing possible research endeavors.

To get on the Desert Net listserv, email Jamie Geng .

As attachment sizes to listserv emails are limited, you may periodically be directed to this webpage to download PDF attachments.

DesertNet Update April 2010

 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table at the recent ACE conference in Scottsdale!  As a reminder, DesertNet is a primary care practice-based research network (PBRN).  PBRNs provide opportunities for collaborative research among primary care providers that will improve patient health and quality improvement in health care delivery.  DesertNet is registered with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality PBRN Network.  We have recently launched a study addressing the management of chronic pain, and we will soon launch another study addressing advance directives in primary care.  For more information about DesertNet, or to register as a member, please contact Sharry Veres, MD, or Gale Kittle, RN, MPH by phone at (602) 406-4792, or by email, gale.kittle@chw.edu.  There is no charge for membership, and you can participate as much or as little as you like.

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