[NYAPRS Enews] Former U.S. Surgeon General to Address MH on September 9 in NYC

[Matt Canuteson]

NYAPRS Note: The following event announcement comes to us from the
National Black Nurses Foundation, Inc. Registration and more information
about this event can be found:

http://www.nbnfoundation.us/mentalhealth.html

 

Mental Health: Policy, Clinical, and Spiritual Implications; Engaging
Communities To Reduce MH Stigma

 

September 9th 2009

5:30pm-8:30pm

New York Academy of Medicine

1216 5th Ave, New York City 10029

 

YOUR ATTENDANCE IS REQUESTED at a special invitation forum, Mental
Health: Policy, Clinical, and Spiritual Implications - Engaging
Communities to Reduce the Mental Health Stigma to convene Wednesday,
September 9, 2009 at The New York Academy of Medicine in New York City.
This symposium was developed to respond to the acceptance, healing, and
supportive partnership between healthcare professionals, the faith- and
community-based contingency, clergy, mental health consumers, and policy
makers to address parity of mental health diseases such as depression
and bipolarism.

NO FEE - Registration Required - Space is Limited

Registration Deadline August 25, 2009

 

Program Topics:

*         Mental Health:

The Burden of Disease on Healthcare Disparities and Policy -
Implications for Parity in Health Care

Keynote M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, MS
15th Surgeon General of the United States
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas Medical Center

*         Clinical Implications:

Understanding Depression and Bipolarism to Reduce the Stigma Associated
with Mental Health - Pull off the Covers

Janet E. Taylor, MD
Adult Psychiatrist
Featured on The Today Show and The Early Show

*         Policy and Community Partnerships for Improved Mental Health
Outcomes (an audience dialogue)

*         End Note: 

A Call to Action

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION visit http://www.nbnfoundation.us/mentalhealth.html
or call (404) 559-6191

 

Sponsored by the National Black Nurses Foundation, Inc.

Funding provided by AstraZeneca, Inc.

 

The National Black Nurses Foundation, Inc.
"Leading to Serve-Serving to Lead"
1513 East Cleveland Avenue
Bldg 100-B, Suite 110 
Atlanta, GA 30344-6947
www.nbnfoundation.us <http://www.nbnfoundation.us/>  
info at nbnfoundation.us <mailto:info at nbnfoundation.us>  
404.559.6191 (v)
404.559.9198 (f)

 

 

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