Virginia Commonwealth University Woman Health Conference

描述：弗吉尼亚联邦大学(VCU)妇女健康研究所是美国国土安全部全国指定的卓越中心，计划于2005年4月21日至23日在弗吉尼亚州诺福克举行第七届妇女健康年会。2006年的会议“妇女的健康：将研究转化为实践”，促进将循证实践指南纳入为妇女提供的保健中。医生和护士从业者构成了观众的大多数，预计将有500多名注册者。会议的主要目的是就与妇女终身健康有关的广泛问题提供最先进、有证据的实践指导方针，重点是少数族裔妇女的健康状况和需求。AHRQ妇女健康主任、医学博士Rosaly Coreea-de-Araujo将在会议开幕时讨论将研究转化为临床实践的挑战。会议的教职员工包括国际公认的妇女健康研究人员，他们来自美国国立卫生研究院、哈佛医学院、约翰霍普金斯大学、波士顿大学、北卡罗来纳大学、明尼苏达大学和弗吉尼亚大学等。 有计划地分发会议记录。妇女健康研究所的网站上将有许多专题介绍。简短的会议记录将在网上和印刷版上提供。如果资金到位，将对整个会议进行录像，以便通过磁带和互联网上的流媒体视频进行传播。复印件将分发给所有美国卫生部指定的妇女健康英才中心。

DESCRIPTION: The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Institute for Women's Health, a US DHHS nationally designated Center of Excellence, has scheduled its 7th Annual Women's Health Conference for April 21-23, 2005 in Norfolk, Virginia. The 2006 conference, 'Women's Health: Translating Research into Practice," promotes the incorporation of evidence-based practice guidelines in the healthcare provided to women. Physicians and nurse practitioners comprise the majority of the audience, with well over 500 registrants expected. The main objective of the conference is to provide state-of-the-art, evidenced-based practice guidelines on a broad range of issues relevant to women's health across the lifespan, with an emphasis on the health status and needs of minority women. Rosaly Coreea-de-Araujo, MD, Director of Women's Health at AHRQ, will open the conference by discussing the challenges of translating research into clinical practice. The conference faculty comprises internationally recognized researchers in women's health drawn from the NCI, NHLBI, NIMH, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, University of North Carolina, University of Minnesota and University of Virginia, among others. There is a well planned dissemination of conference proceedings. Many presentations will be available on the Institute for Women' Health web site. Short conference proceedings will be available online and in print. If funding is available, there will be videotaping of the entire conference for dissemination on tape and through streaming video on the Internet. Copies will be distributed to all the US DHSS designated Centers of Excellence in Women's Health.