This Year's Themes

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Theme #1: Technology, Digital Health, and AI

  • Telehealth and Digital Transformation: Advancements in remote care, patient monitoring, and healthcare accessibility.
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: AI applications, AI translation services, and AI's role in healthcare decision-making.
  • Biomedical Devices and Innovations: Biomarkers, drug delivery mechanisms, prosthetics and implants, and artificial tissue and organ research.
  • Public Health Communication Technology: UX design of user-facing systems, electronic records, universal medical passports, and medical literacy.
Mental Health

Theme #2: Mental Health and Wellness

  • Innovations: What new approaches to assessment, data collection, or analysis are available to understand the mental health and wellness of our communities
  • Public Outreach: How are we advancing access and reach of existing programs
  • Community Implementation: What new methods are we using to translate novel research into better mental health and wellness at the community level?
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Theme #3: HealthHum, Equity, Access, and Patient-Centered Care

  • Health Equity and Disparities: Sources of and remedies for disparities in rural, minority, and underserved populations.
  • Diversity and Inclusion in Healthcare: Accessibility, person-centered care, translation services, and AI translation.
  • Patient-Centered Care: Trauma-informed care, improving interprofessional communication, and enhancing patient experience.
research

Theme #4: Clinical Research

  • Disease Research and Biomedical Science: Disease etiology and progression, cell signaling mechanisms, drug metabolism, and novel surgical procedures.
  • Emerging Fields and Technologies: AI-based determinations, OTC and direct-to-consumer medicine, and genetic counseling.
  • Medical Research and Development: Clinical trials, research methodologies, and development of new therapeutic procedures and medications.