To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Reese Stone or Alisa Mosley, 202-347-1895 or 202-277-7282, both of the National Medical Association, Web site: http://www.NMAnet.org
News Advisory:
-- Disparities in Health Care, Obesity, Physician Profiling, Cutting Edge Research, Medical and Scientific Reports and the Latest Medical Technologies Highlight the 102nd National Medical Association Annual Convention
The National Medical Association will convene its 102nd Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly Saturday, July 31 through Aug. 5, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, Calif.
This year's annual convention will be preceded by a two-day comprehensive health screening in the city of San Diego, where more than 2,000 residents are expected to be tested for hypertension, glaucoma, diabetes, prostate cancer, high cholesterol and other diseases that disproportionately affect African Americans and Hispanics.
The annual convention and scientific assembly will focus on obesity, the human genome, profiling of African American physicians, disparities in health care, asthma management, emergency medicine, pediatrics, pain management, OB/GYN risk management, oncology, hypertension, spectrum of diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, contemporary issues and research updates on contraceptives, resurgence of reflux of esophalgitis in African American patients and prostate cancer are among the dozens of medical and scientific seminars and lectures scheduled.
Mark McClellan, M. D.; Director of CMS, Richard Carmona, M.D. US Surgeon General; Lester Crawford, D.V.M. Acting Director of the FDA; Francis Collins, M.D., NIH, Director of the Human Genome Institute; James Gavin, M.D., Diabetes expert and President of Morehouse School of Medicine; David Satcher, M.D, former U.S. Surgeon General, Julian Haywood, M.D. world renown Cardiologist, John Nelson, M.D. President of the AMA, David K. Burns, Senior Vice President, Genetics Research, GSK, U.S. Congressman John Lewis , John Marshall son of former US Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall, Judge Mablean Ephraim, and Harry Belafonte, actor and health advocate are among the medical, health, legal and industry experts scheduled to speak. Diahanne Carroll, noted actress and breast cancer survivor, will address a luncheon of women physicians. Stephanie Mills, Broadway star and recording artist will perform at a benefit concert.
For additional information about the scheduled convention program, please visit http://www.nmanet.org or call 202-347-1895, extensions 281 and 262.
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