GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE 2020 INVITATION

GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE 2020 INVITATION

 

Our names are Brianna Leone and Blake Callahan, and we are medical student representatives of MedPACt, our global health student organization at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. We will be hosting our 9th annual Global Health Conference on Saturday, January 18th, 2020 and we would like to invite you to attend.

• Theme: Arts in Global Medicine: Integration and Healing
• Date: January 18, 2020 (Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend - a great time to visit Orlando!)
• Location: University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Lake Nona Health Sciences Campus
• Keynote Speaker: Jill Sonke, MA from the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine 
• Exciting simulations and workshops: World Cuisine, Narrative Medicine, and Design thinking workshops as well as disaster and ultrasound simulations. More to come!
• Research symposium with oral and poster presentations 
• Round table discussions on overarching global health themes and arts in medicine
• Panel on global health and arts integration: "Portraits of Global Health: How Art Influences Health"

  For more information and to register, please visit www.ucfglobalhealth.org.

While developed by medical students, the conference is open for attendance to anyone interested in Global Health or the Arts and Medicine. We welcome you to submit your abstracts for poster presentation as well as oral presentation consideration at the 2020 UCF Global Health Conference. Any global health or arts in medicine integration projects may be considered. Abstracts must be submitted by January 8th, 2020 for consideration. Please submit your abstracts here:  https://forms.gle/nTywj88PaXJnPqgN6 

 Additionally, we are excited to showcase artwork this year. Artwork must be your own original work and must relate somehow to Arts in Medicine. Submit your artwork here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UqczIdHmJFRB6OfUusGQoXqtAmIK3drgyADLt6hOLdk/edit

 Thank you so much for your time and consideration. We appreciate it greatly!

 Sincerely,

 Brianna Leone, MS1 and Blake Callahan, MS2

Judith Simms-Cendan, M.D.

 

 

Public Relations Committee

MedPACt Global Health Conference

University of Central Florida

College of Medicine

6850 Lake Nona Blvd

Orlando, FL 32827