We envision every person in Colorado having the opportunity to attain their full health potential.
Together Again: Moving Upward in Health Care
Principles
- Inter-professional education (aka interdisciplinary training)
- Behavioral Health Integration
- Connecting communities and supporting health professional (including burnout)
- Strengthening healthcare access through virtual learning and telehealth
- Social determinants of health
- Cultural Competency
- Practice Transformation
Content Priorities
- Enhancing health equity and reducing health disparities
- Diversifying the health workforce
- Pipelining
- DEI
- Ending the crisis of opioid addiction and overdose in America
- Improving behavioral/mental health access and care
- Transforming the health care system through value-based care delivery and quality improvement initiatives
- Transforming the workforce – by targeting the need
- Preventing and reducing maternal mortality
- Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic or other infectious diseases
- Climate change and health
- Chronic medical issues and treatment guidelines
- Service learning in communities
General information
Specifics:
Conference dates are September 22-24, 2023.
The conference will be in the new Health Sciences Building on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Presentations may be scheduled as a plenary or panel at the conference organizers' discretion.
Each room has WIFI and is A/V capable.
COAHEC will provide a podium with a microphone and a screen.
COAHEC will provide a moderator for each session.
All presenters must attend the conference and present in person.
Audience:
You can expect a variety of attendees, including healthcare professionals throughout Colorado, residents, research professionals, graduate health profession students, and AHEC Scholars. Expect 30-150 attendees in your session.
Eligibility:
Health Care Professionals, Researchers, Graduate Students, and AHEC Scholars
Length of Presentation:
Plan for 50 minutes, followed by a 10-minute Q&A session.
Submission:
The deadline to submit your abstract is April 15, 2023.
You must submit your abstract online through the web form below.COAHEC will not accept emailed submissions.
There is no fee to submit an abstract.
Limit your abstract to five hundred words.
The COAHEC NEAR Conference panel will review each submission.