Giffords’ neurosurgeon to deliver keynote speech at Health Journalism 2011
G. Michael Lemole Jr., M.D., the neurosurgeon who treated U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in Tucson on Jan. 8., will be the keynote speaker at Health Journalism 2011.
Lemole
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Other confirmed speakers include Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, and Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who will take part in separate Newsmaker Briefings.
Take a look at the topics to be covered at the best annual training event in health journalism, then register and make your hotel reservations. AHCJ’s annual conference will be April 14-17 in Philadelphia. Along with Newsmaker Briefings, it includes panels, workshops, field trips and networking opportunities for reporters interested in health and health care. The Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism will be presented.
Unprecedented number of fellowships available
Journalists covering rural health, working beats other than health, those working for the ethnic media and journalists in California, Missouri, New York and Oregon can apply for fellowships to attend the conference. Deadline: Feb. 23
NIH, CMS chiefs to speak at Newsmaker Briefings
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, and Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will speak in separate Newsmaker Briefings at Health Journalism 2011.
Collins and Berwick
Berwick, who oversees programs that provide care to nearly one in three Americans and formerly headed up the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will speak at the conference’s official kickoff session on Thursday, April 14.
Collins, who oversees the 27 institutes and centers of NIH and who led the effort to successfully map the human genome, will speak Friday, April 15.
The annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists will take place April 14-17 in Philadelphia. Along with Newsmaker Briefings, it includes panels, workshops, field trips and networking opportunities for reporters interested in health and health care.
Unprecedented number of fellowships available: Journalists covering rural health, working beats other than health, those working for the ethnic media and journalists in California, Missouri, New York and Oregon can apply for fellowships to attend the conference. Deadline to apply: Feb. 23
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awards $1.1 million grant to support health journalists
The Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the educational arm of the Association of Health Care Journalists, has been awarded a grant of nearly $1.1 million to improve training resources for health journalists.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust made the three-year grant of $1,097,000 to the Missouri-based center to increase the range of training opportunities for current journalists and to help develop new health journalists across the country.
“The real stories on the state of health care can be found at the local level,” said Len Bruzzese, executive director of AHCJ. “The Helmsley Trust’s generous support will allow us to expand our training in underserved geographic areas and in underreported topic areas to better assist local reporters in telling those stories.”
The funding will support the annual conference of the association, starting with Health Journalism 2011 this spring in Philadelphia; regional workshops on niche health topics; an annual rural health journalism workshop; and three conference fellowship programs assisting ethnic media, rural reporters and journalists on non-health beats who routinely face health-related stories, such as education, environment, business and government.
Significantly, the funding will allow the continuation - and expansion - of an intense regional fellowship program that has trained dozens of journalists in Kansas and Missouri over the past four years. Each year, the new AHCJ-Regional Health Journalism Fellowships program will select 10-12 reporters, editors and producers from a different region of the country for customized training. The yearlong fellowships are meant to improve abilities to provide meaningful coverage of critical issues and assist and motivate fellows to increase such coverage.
The funding also will allow updates to the technology used to produce the association’s website, www.healthjournalism.org, and to increase the resources available there. The site assists reporters working on health-related stories with tip sheets, reporting guides, government data, training presentations and resource links.
“As America struggles with access and the rising cost of health care, it is important that the information on choice and cost is available to the consumers. New technology allows consumers to manage their healthcare closer to home and at less cost. Giving journalists access to information on those technologies is important to the Helmsley Charitable Trust,” noted Rural Healthcare Program Director Shelley Stingley. Read more
Health Journalism 2011 set for Philadelphia
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Put AHCJ’s annual conference on your calendar: April 14-17, 2011, in Philadelphia.
The program will include dozens of panels, field trips, newsmaker briefings, Freelance Pitchfest, world-class speakers, 2010 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism luncheon and a number of other special events. Expect sessions on covering health care, health research, public health, health policy, consumer health and the business of health.
Local and national planning committees have begun gathering conference ideas for review. The organization has negotiated a a discounted hotel rate of $149 a night at the Sheraton Society Hill.
More details will be available in the weeks ahead, but set these days aside now for the best annual training event in health journalism.
Conference will deepen knowledge of health issues (#ahcj2010)
A list of expected sessions for Health Journalism 2010 has been released and it includes panels and classes on the most timely health topics.
The conference, April 22-25 in Chicago, will feature sessions about finding and using health data, as well as how to map it, on Thursday. 
Field trips to see research and clinical work in the Chicago area are also planned for that day.
Panels on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will help reporters who are interested in tracking stimulus spending, understanding medical studies, comparative effectiveness research, conflicts of interest in medical research, vaccines, health reform, veterans’ issues, seniors and nursing homes and much more.
Conference registration for journalists is just $150 ($99 for students) and AHCJ negotiated a hotel rate of $139 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, the conference hotel. A number of fellowships will be offered as well.
For those of you on Twitter, the hashtag #ahcj2010 has been designated for news about and from the conference. Follow AHCJ_Pia for all of the latest news from AHCJ.
Health Journalism 2010 will be in Chicago
Just announced: AHCJ’s annual conference will be at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, April 22-25. We’ve secured a $139 room rate for attendees. Local and national AHCJ committees are starting the planning process. Ideas for sessions or workshops are welcome – submit them online.
More details will be shared in the weeks ahead, but set these dates aside now for the best annual training event in health journalism.
AHCJ extends discount on conference registration
AHCJ’s early-bird registration rate for Health Journalism 2009 – one of the best deals in journalism training – will be offered to all registrants this year! With the economy taking its toll on folks everywhere, AHCJ believes the easier we can make it for you to attend this premier training event, the better.
We still encourage you to sign up as soon as possible – registration includes signing up for a field trip and seats are limited.
Now, more than ever, AHCJ offers training, networking and support for journalists.
Book a bargain flight now
Some airlines have dropped fares to Seattle, so this is a good time to check on flights to the conference.
Members have found roundtrip fares for less than $300 from the NYC area and as low as $220 from the Washington, D.C., area for the dates of the conference.
Many speakers have been confirmed for the conference
See the schedule packed with panels, events and top speakers
Apply for a fellowship to attend the conference
Join us April 16-19 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle. Don’t miss field trips, training in multimedia skills, panels featuring top reporters and experts, press briefings, the Freelance PitchFest and much more.
Registration for Health Journalism 2009 is open
Planning for AHCJ’s annual conference - in Seattle, April 16-19 - is moving full-speed ahead. Check out the Web site for a list of expected events and panels, field trips and more.
There are several fellowships available to help journalists with the costs of attending the conference. Additionally, AHCJ has not raised registration fees. In addition to informative panels, press conferences, networking, access to the latest resources and story ideas, registration also includes your choice of field trips or a multimedia workshop on Thursday, a Freelance PitchFest on Friday, the awards luncheon and evening receptions.
People who want to go on one of the field trips need to register for the conference early because there are limited seats available and the field trips always fill up fast.
We hope to see you in Seattle!
Reporter wins free conference registration
Congratulations to James Mulder of The (Syracuse) Post-Standard. By filling out the evaluation of the Urban Health Journalism Workshop, Mulder won the drawing for free registration to Health Journalism 2009 in Seattle!
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