Disparities in Surgical Critical Care: Research to Practice Oct. 27 – 28
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston
The BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health and Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education present this second annual two-day symposium, which provides an opportunity for a broad-based coalition of clinicians, policy makers, advocates and others to put forward multi-pronged approaches to the elimination of surgical disparities and to translate research to practice.
Course speakers include Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH, Atul A. Gawande, MD, MPH, Haile T. Debas, MD, L.D. Britt, MD, MPH, Edward E. Cornwell, III, MD, John L. Tarpley, MD, Louis W. Sullivan, MD, MACP, Jim Y. Kim, MD, PhD, and Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS.
The poster session, detailing work in disparities in surgery (descriptive, interventional or clinical research/basic science) or global disparities (case studies, burden of surgical disease), will be Oct. 27, 5 to 6:30 p.m. For submission guidelines, visit for www.brighamandwomens.org/centerforsurgeryandpublichealth and click the link on poster session details or call 617-525-7300.