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September 28, 2000
Contact: Jennifer Day, (313)
577-1058, jday@med.wayne.edu
WSU conference
focuses on health of urban children
Members of the community will gather Saturday, Oct. 7, at
Children’s Hospital of Michigan for the annual HealthFOCUS 2000 Conference to
help improve the health of children in urban settings.
HealthFOCUS, which stands for Health For Our Children in
Urban Settings, is an organization of Wayne State University School of Medicine
students, physicians, residents and administrative staff of Children’s
Hospital and the Detroit Medical Center. The group’s annual day-long
conference seeks to expand awareness of issues affecting urban child health,
increase networking contacts among people in varied aspects of urban child
well-being and serve as a catalyst for collaborative efforts to improve urban
child health.
This year’s theme is “FOCUSing on Solutions” and
includes sessions on improving immunization rates, the roles of Big Brothers and
Big Sisters as well as community centers and child health and safety at school.
This year’s keynote speaker is Joseph A. DiCara, MD, a pediatrician in
neonatology at Chicago’s Prentice Hospital Special Care Nursery.
Members of the public are welcome to attend. The targeted
audience is physicians; physicians-in-training; students of medicine, nursing
and social work; allied health professionals; and community organizations who
are interested in child health issues.
The cost of the conference is $10 for non-physicians and
$20 for physicians. A box lunch is included. On-site registration is available.
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