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卫生与公众服务部指定的全国卓越中心，该研究所计划于2005年4月21日至23日在弗吉尼亚州诺福克召开第七届年度妇女健康会议。2006年题为“妇女健康：将研究转化为实践”的会议促进将循证实践指南纳入向妇女提供的保健服务。医生和执业护士占观众的大多数，预计注册人数将超过500人。会议的主要目标是就与妇女整个生命周期的健康有关的广泛问题提供最先进的循证实践准则，重点是少数民族妇女的健康状况和需要。AHRQ妇女健康主任Rosaly Coreea-de-Araujo医学博士将通过讨论将研究转化为临床实践的挑战来开启会议。会议的教师包括国际公认的妇女健康研究人员，他们来自NCI、NHLBI、NIMH、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。

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.