I will be at the Medical Library Association Conference through Friday May 22. Things will be quiet on the blog, though I do hope to find time to post while I’m at this meeting.

http://www.pgsi.com/Products/Resources/Webinars/Webinar7.aspx
Thursday, May 14, 2009
1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST
Providing language access to health care is more than just a good idea – it is required.  This webinar, sponsored by Polyglot Systems, will explore policy and accreditation standards related to language access. You will hear what is required under current law, how enforcement of Title VI and the ADA is likely to change under the Obama administration, what Joint Commission surveyors look for regarding language services, and how the new CLAS standards being developed could impact your organization.

Preventive Interventions to Support Latina Teens
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=42528
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is sponsoring a webinar May 21, 2009, to help shed light on the rising trend of suicides among Latina teens. The webinar, led by Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., director of the Center for Latino Family Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the high rate of suicide attempts by adolescent Latinas in the United States and preventive interventions. This webinar is sponsored by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  [posted on RWJF Content Alerts]

Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Time
To register visit: http://www.ahrq.gov/about/chpheweb.htm

Children are not just small adults; their different medical needs make it essential for health care facilities to prepare for child victims of public health emergencies. Also, children spend most of their waking hours away from their parents in school. Schools, therefore, must assure that children have appropriate care and proper interventions in a public health emergency. Hospital and school disaster response plans should account for children as a priority population.

To showcase resources that can support emergency preparedness planning for children, AHRQ will host a Webcast, Planning and Preparedness for Children’s Needs in Public Health Emergencies. This event will feature a panel discussion of preparedness initiatives and insights from pediatric emergency preparedness planners. During the Webcast, participants will learn about some of AHRQ’s resources for emergency preparedness involving children, including:

* School-Based Emergency Preparedness: A National Analysis and Recommended Protocol.
* Pediatric Hospital Surge Capacity in Public Health Emergencies.

15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
“Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and Health Disparities”
Tuesday, June 9, 1:30-4:00pm EDT
This interactive session will be broadcast with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast) and (tentatively) c-band satellite. Questions will be taken from studio and broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.
For more information: http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/
To register a viewing site: http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/broadcast/
To register for the Internet broadcast: http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/broadcast/

The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO) will hold its 10th annual Unity conference July 27-29, 2009 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. Unity 2009 is a national conference designed for and about community health workers. The theme for this year’s conference is “Community Health Workers - Celebrating Our Past and Charting the Future.”  http://www.usm.edu/csho/unity.html

8th Annual Conference
Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) 2009
Latinos in the Heartland
St. Louis, Missouri
May 18-20. 2009
http://www.cambiodecolores.org
http://www.latinosintheheartland.com

The program will consist of some fifty presentations on the following topics: Change and Integration, Civil Rights and Legal Issues, Education, Health Care and Policy, and Youth, Families and Communities, organized in Plenary Sessions (seven, including the Welcome and Closing sessions) and 27 Breakout Sessions.  Breakout sessions include research panels, best-practices panels, and research or outreach workshops. Presenters are coming from the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oregon.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plaevents/cplacourses/diversepopulations.cfm
To help public librarians learn how to effectively serve diverse populations, the Public Library Association is offering an intensive two-day workshop designed to teach these practical skills in Houston, Texas, August 6–7. Participants will learn how to identify the challenges of these groups and assess the library’s readiness to work with them, develop a culturally responsive library-services plan that addresses specific community needs, and develop marketing messages that connect with these populations. [posted on AL Direct, Aprill 22, 2009 http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=6350210&si=398419967&cfc=3html ]

On Wednesday, April 22 at 1:00 MT, 2:00 CT for one hour - presented by Jim Honour. Tune in to see multiple  resources for drug information, such as the NLM Drug Information Portal http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/drug.html. Class includes hands-on exercises!
This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr

The series is targeted for the fourth Wednesday each month. And our May offering will be on May 27th, covering the Hazardous Substances Data Bank, Haz-Map, and WISER, which I will be presenting.

Friends of the National Library of Medicine
2009 Annual Conference
Personal Electronic Health Records: From Biomedical Research to People’s Health
http://www.fnlm.org
May 20 - 21, 2009
National Institutes of Health, Natcher Conference Center
9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland

https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/Registration/LandingPageEntry.jsp?ActivityID=3759
Individual Registration - $195 (late registration May 1 at $295); Government employees complimentary

Reflecting the NIH mission, the National Library of Medicine and the non-profit Friends of the NLM have organized this conference to develop and promote new information and knowledge regarding the critical and recent developments in health information technology.  The conference is structured to offer cross-cutting perspectives from government, industry, health centers and research, and to align closely with the priorities of the current Administration around the development and widespread implementation of personal electronic health records.  Please visit http://www.fnlm.org for additional information on the conference.

Please find a selection of sessions and speakers listed below:

• Electronic Health Record and Economic Recovery David Cutler, PhD, Harvard University
• Biomedical Research and Electronic Health Record George Hripcsak, MD, MS, Columbia University
• Our Search for the Best Personal Health Electronic Health Record Alfred Spector, PhD, Google
• Health Records and Systems Interoperability Daniel S. Pelino, IBM and Dan Drawbaugh, UPMC
• Microsoft Experience with Electronic Health Records James Mault, MD, FACS, Microsoft Health Solutions Group
• Patient Access to Electronic Health Records Rich Umbdenstock, FACHE, American Hospital Association
• New Initiatives in Personalized Health Information Clement McDonald, MD, National Library of Medicine
• Ethical and Legal Issues of Personal Health Records Arthur Caplan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• If We Were Starting Now: What is Needed for the Electronic Health Record of the Future? Donald Lindberg, MD, National Library of Medicine