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AMSUS meeting looks into the future of federal health care and tackles current issues like suicide prevention, opioid alternatives, and women in combat.

The largest gathering of federal health care leadership is less than 2 months away. The AMSUS annual meeting will be held November 29 to December 2, 2016 at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, Maryland. “This meeting is future focused, VADM Michael L. Cowan, MD, executive director of AMSUS recently told Federal Practitioner. “We have leaders from across federal medicine, and they are going to tell you what they are doing and where their organizations are headed. It’s very exciting.”

Keynote speakers include VA Under Secretary for Health David J. Shulkin, MD; United States Surgeon General VADM Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA; Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work; and Director Defense Health Agency VADM Raquel Bono, MD.

The Military Health System will be developing 1 of the 6 education tracks, which will focus on the development and maintenance of a high reliability health care organization. The meeting also will focus on clinical best practices, psychological health and suicide prevention, alternatives to opioids for pain management, advances in blood products, and women in combat.

According to VADM Cowan, the meeting also will highlight some of the advances in the U.S. Air Force’s critical care evacuation system. A transport isolation unit will be on display, which includes a sealed patient care module with positive airway circulation designed to protect patients with infectious diseases and their care providers.

The meeting will provided up to 20 hours of continuing education credit. For more information and to register, visit http://www.amsusmeetings.org.

 

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AMSUS meeting looks into the future of federal health care and tackles current issues like suicide prevention, opioid alternatives, and women in combat.
AMSUS meeting looks into the future of federal health care and tackles current issues like suicide prevention, opioid alternatives, and women in combat.

The largest gathering of federal health care leadership is less than 2 months away. The AMSUS annual meeting will be held November 29 to December 2, 2016 at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, Maryland. “This meeting is future focused, VADM Michael L. Cowan, MD, executive director of AMSUS recently told Federal Practitioner. “We have leaders from across federal medicine, and they are going to tell you what they are doing and where their organizations are headed. It’s very exciting.”

Keynote speakers include VA Under Secretary for Health David J. Shulkin, MD; United States Surgeon General VADM Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA; Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work; and Director Defense Health Agency VADM Raquel Bono, MD.

The Military Health System will be developing 1 of the 6 education tracks, which will focus on the development and maintenance of a high reliability health care organization. The meeting also will focus on clinical best practices, psychological health and suicide prevention, alternatives to opioids for pain management, advances in blood products, and women in combat.

According to VADM Cowan, the meeting also will highlight some of the advances in the U.S. Air Force’s critical care evacuation system. A transport isolation unit will be on display, which includes a sealed patient care module with positive airway circulation designed to protect patients with infectious diseases and their care providers.

The meeting will provided up to 20 hours of continuing education credit. For more information and to register, visit http://www.amsusmeetings.org.

 

The largest gathering of federal health care leadership is less than 2 months away. The AMSUS annual meeting will be held November 29 to December 2, 2016 at the Gaylord National in National Harbor, Maryland. “This meeting is future focused, VADM Michael L. Cowan, MD, executive director of AMSUS recently told Federal Practitioner. “We have leaders from across federal medicine, and they are going to tell you what they are doing and where their organizations are headed. It’s very exciting.”

Keynote speakers include VA Under Secretary for Health David J. Shulkin, MD; United States Surgeon General VADM Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA; Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work; and Director Defense Health Agency VADM Raquel Bono, MD.

The Military Health System will be developing 1 of the 6 education tracks, which will focus on the development and maintenance of a high reliability health care organization. The meeting also will focus on clinical best practices, psychological health and suicide prevention, alternatives to opioids for pain management, advances in blood products, and women in combat.

According to VADM Cowan, the meeting also will highlight some of the advances in the U.S. Air Force’s critical care evacuation system. A transport isolation unit will be on display, which includes a sealed patient care module with positive airway circulation designed to protect patients with infectious diseases and their care providers.

The meeting will provided up to 20 hours of continuing education credit. For more information and to register, visit http://www.amsusmeetings.org.

 

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