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American Public Health AssociationInjury Control and Emergency Health Services SectionAPHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 6 No. 6ANNUAL MEETING Well, the countdown is on for the last APHA Annual Meeting of the century in Chicago. The ICEHS conference hotel is the Sheraton Chicago at 301 E. North Water Street (call 1-800-424-5248 for reservations). Meeting participants will become accustomed to traveling on the APHA shuttles because most of our sessions will be held at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, site of the exhibits (including our own ICEHS booth), the poster sessions, and conference registration. Evening sessions and possibly some daytime sessions will be held at the Sheraton Chicago (Hotel 9 on map).Several highlights of this year's Annual Meeting include:
For those of you that have reviewed the preliminary program for the Annual Meeting, please note that there were a couple of errors that will be corrected in the final program: 1) The verbal latebreakers session will be held on Tuesday, November 9 at 8:30 AM; 2) Session 2047.1 will be held on Wednesday, November 10 at 8:30 AM; and 3) Session 4027 on Thursday, November 11 at 8:30 AM is entitled "Intentional Injury in Adolescents". If you have questions about the program, please contact Chester Jones, ches@comp.uark.edu. I look forward to seeing you in Chicago. Mary Ann Gregor, Chair, ICEHS *********************************************************** ICEHS Scientific Session and Meeting Schedule Sunday November 7
Monday November 8
Tuesday November 9
Wednesday November 10
Thursday November 11
*********************************************************** SECTION NEWS Award for Excellence I am happy to report that Susan Baker will be this year's recipient of APHA's prestigious Award for Excellence. The Award for Excellence is given each year to a living individual in recognition of his or her exceptionally meritorious contributions to the improvements of the health of the people. It honors creative work of particular effectiveness in applying scientific knowledge or innovative organizational work to the betterment of community health. Individuals nominated for the award have made significant and well-recognized contributions to the improvement of health. The Award for Excellence, along with the Sedgwick Medal, will be presented at the Annual Meeting Opening Session on November 8. Congratulations to Sue for her many accomplishments and for bringing recognition to ICEHS and the field of injury control. The ICEHS Social Hour, slated for Monday evening (Nov. 8), will provide an opportunity for all of us to honor Susan Baker and her work. Hope to see you in Chicago! Mary Ann Gregor ******************************** APHA Chair Persons-Elect Meeting APHA held the 1999 Chairpersons-Elect Meeting on June 24-25 at the Renaissance Hotel across the street from the new APHA headquarters in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the incoming Chairs to the APHA staff and to provide an orientation to the processes and functions of APHA offices and leaders. We received a tour of the new headquarters building. Its a beautiful place right in the heart of DC. APHA welcomes members to stop by when you're in town to check it out. With many new staff members, APHA is trying hard to develop new processes, and streamline old ones, to increase section and member involvement. Meanwhile, many of the chair-elects made it very clear to Dr. Akhter and his staff that they and their members wish to be more involved in the activities the staff and Executive Board take on our behalf. All in all, a feisty and action packed two days! Lisa Cohen Barrios, DrPH ****************************** APHA/ICEHS Elections This is just to let members know that there was a transcription error at the APHA office in the biosketch for David Lawrence. David provided us with additional information about himself as a candidate for Chairperson, upon request. Below is attached a note from him, with a profile of himself. "I've worked in the field of emergency care and injury prevention since the mid-1970s as a paramedic, an ER nurse, an epidemiologist, and as director of the Injury Section of the Louisiana State Office of Public Health. Currently, I'm director of the Center for Childhood Injury Prevention at San Diego State University working with county and state health departments to help them develop their injury programs. I've been privileged to serve in elected and volunteer positions with STIPDA and as an invited member of advisory groups to the NCIPC and NHTSA. I'll do my best for the ICEHS Section."--David Lawrence Mary Ann Gregor, Chair, ICEHS *************************** CDC/NCIPC News: Mark Rosenberg accepts new position Dr. Mark L. Rosenberg, Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC), CDC, has announced that he has accepted the position of Science Director at the
Collaborative Center for Child Well-being (CCCW) at the Task Force for Child Survival and
Development in Atlanta, effective September 1, 1999. This is a unique opportunity for Dr.
Rosenberg to work in an extremely important public health arena with a remarkable public
health leader, Dr. William H. Foege, current Director of CCCW and former Director of CDC.
For the past 16 years, Dr. Rosenberg has been the driving force behind CDC's violence
prevention program, and as Director of NCIPC since 1993, he has played a truly seminal
role in the development and recognition of the Center and the field of injury prevention
and control. Under Dr. Rosenberg's leadership, NCIPC's budget has grown from $32 million
in fiscal year 1993 to $64 million in fiscal year 1999 and the injury control science base
has been strengthened to a remarkable degree. A strong research network has been built in
the field of injury prevention through the establishment of 10 Injury Control Research
Centers and the peer-reviewed research grant program, and effective partnerships have been
established with every State in the country, a host of other Federal agencies engaged in
different aspects of injury control, many business and voluntary organizations, and the
World Health Organization. CDC has awarded 187 peer-reviewed, research awards since 1987,
an investment in science of $148 million that has so far produced more than 1,200
peer-reviewed, published scientific papers. We have invested in biomechanics research;
developed innovative approaches to violence prevention, such as the prevention of violence
against women, youth and school violence, and suicide; established a productive
partnership with the Department of Justice; and brought definition and clarity to
traumatic brain injury. We have strengthened our capacity to monitor injuries in America
through projects in State health departments that monitor traumatic brain injury, violence
against women, and other injury problems and through collaborative efforts with our
partners in the Departments of Justice and Transportation and the Consumer Product Safety
Commission. I know that all of you will join me in wishing Dr. Rosenberg the very best in
his new venture and giving him a collective "thank you" and congratulations for
all that he has done. I have initiated a process to identify an exceptional individual to
serve as Acting Director of NCIPC while we undertake a formal recruitment process. A
formal search committee for Dr. Rosenberg's successor will be established by early
September. Contributed by: *********************************************************** ICEHS COMMUNICATIONS Paper Newsletter Deadline The deadline for the next issue of the Paper Newsletter is August 20, 1999. The majority of this issue will be devoted to the Annual Meeting, but you may also submit other information that you wish to disseminate to your colleagues. Please forward all submissions for the Paper Newsletter to me at tcruz@carolinas.org . If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at (704) 355-7098. Theresa Cruz ****************************** Electronic Newsletter This is a combined issue for June and July. Due to a number of reasons, these issues could not be sent out earlier, as planned. I apologize to the membership for the delay.The next issue of the Electronic Newsletter will be distributed in early September. Please send any time sensitive material to me by 9/6, for it to appear in that issue. If you need to reach me, you may call (415) 554-9104, or send e-mail at: neena_murgai@dph.sf.ca.us Neena Murgai ****************************** HEADS UP!!! We are once again recruiting volunteers to staff the ICEHS booth at the annual conference. The booth is a really fun place to hangout, and take a break from all the frenetic conference activity. The schedule will be posted in the next newsletters, but if you have a preferred time, sign up now!! Contact Corrie Peek-Asa at cpeekasa@ucla.edu or (310) 206-4115. ***********************************************************INJURY SECTION SCHEDULES LATE-BREAKER SESSIONS ICEHS will again sponsor two "late breaker" sessions during this year's Annual Meeting in Chicago. The poster session is scheduled for Monday, November 8, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. and the verbal session is scheduled for Tuesday, November 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. These sessions are meant to provide a forum for presentation of cutting edge research. Abstracts should feature work in progress or completed within the last few months, i.e., after the February deadline for the Annual Meeting's regular symposia. It is anticipated that six papers will be accepted for each session. The Section will accept abstracts of no more than 250 words until August 27, 1999. Preference for an oral or a poster presentation should be indicated; however, final decisions will be made by the ICEHS Latebreakers Program Committee. Abstracts must contain at least preliminary results and will be judged on: scientific merit, originality, importance to injury control/emergency health services, and generalizability. Although no special form is required, authors should provide the following information in the order listed: Author's name, address, telephone number, fax number, E-mail address, Title of abstract, abstract. Please E-mail with the word Latebreaker as the subject (preferred method), send, or FAX to: Dr. Jean Langlois, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop F-41, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, e-mail JAL7@CDC.GOV, Telephone (770) 488-4031, FAX (770) 488-4338.Notification of decisions will be E-mailed or faxed to all submitters by October 1. Submitted by: ***************************** |
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