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Reacting quickly, the AMSUS Continuing Education Meeting will hold multiple sessions with experts from the CDC, DoD, and PHS on the evolving federal response to Ebola. The meeting will be held December 2-5, 2014, in Washington, DC. Details, registration, and an updated agenda can be found at http://amsusmeetings.org.
“This is one of the few opportunities for federal health leaders as well as practitioners to meet and know and learn from their peers,” VADM Michael Cowan, MD, executive director of AMSUS, told Federal Practitioner.
Another major development at the conference will be the “coming-out party” for the Defense Health Agency. “This is the biggest reorganization of military medicine, in living memory,” VADM Cowan explained. “They are a year into it, and this is the opportunity for all of us to hear straight from the horse’s mouth what they are doing.”
In one of the conference highlights, RADM Boris Lushniak, Acting Surgeon General (see "Acting Surgeon General Confident in the Battle Against Tobacco, Ebola, and Preventable Diseases"), will also be delivering a plenary session at the conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the original Surgeon General’s report on the public health impact of tobacco smoke. The session will focus on the progress in the past 50 years as well as the future directions of tobacco cessation and communities still at risk.
“This is a unique chance to meet one’s peers and colleagues; not only across [agencies], but also across international boundaries,” VADM Cowan said.
