AMA Medical Communications Conference Set for April

The AMA will host the 27th Annual Medical Communications Conference April 12–14, 2007, in Tampa Bay, Fla. The conference will offer a wide variety of training and workshops aimed at helping medical spokespersons and health care communication professionals deliver their public messages more effectively.

Keynote speakers include Julie Gerberding, MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich; USA Weekend’s Tedd Mitchell, MD; Brian Duffy, editor, U.S. News & World Report; and Robert Bazell, chief science correspondent, NBC News. In addition, a panel discussion will examine how health care professionals and advocates can leverage news media to raise the visibility of the problem of the uninsured in this country.

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