Interested in Latino Health?
International Health
I would like to invite you an any of your students interested in Latino Health Issues and Policy to a conference to be held here in DC from April 17th-20th. I am the National Coordinator for the National Network of Latin American Medical Students (www.nnlams.com) and we have also been trying to determine who at your medical school and university may be interested in starting a chapter of our organization there at Georgetown. This would be done the the local North East Region, the Boricua Latino Health Organization (www.nblho.org) and we love to see you at this conference in DC. The conference is jointly held by the students in NNLAMS and the physician group the National Hispanic Medical Association (www.nhmamd.org). Below you can also view I have forwarded you a special invitation to a Thursday meeting of medical students prior to the conference with the NHMA to try to set up a policy/student section with in the NHMA to address the student interest in the many issues they deal with in government. By attending this meeting you will get your registration excused for the conference and can attend for free.
Please contact me if your interested and have any questions. I can also send you our tentative program for student workshops and the NHMA program for the conference which includes many clinical topics that may be of interest to you. Please Notify or forward to me any residents that maybe interested also.
Thank You and I hope to hear from you soon-
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Daniel J Correa, 2nd LT, Army
HUCM, MSIV
NNLAMS National Coordinator
dcor...@gmail.com
202-487-4115
www.nnlams.com
From: Elena Rios <er...@nhmamd.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Subject: NHMA Medical Student and Resident Council Meeting
To: Daniel Correa <dcor...@gmail.com>, vick...@gwu.edu, gez...@gmail.com, bal...@gmail.com
Cc: Kurt Sackerman <ksack...@nhmamd.org>
On behalf of the NHMA Board of Directors we would like to invite you and colleagues to assist in the establishment of the NHMA Medical Student and Resident Council at its first Meeting at our Annual Conference on Thursday, April 17th, Washington Hilton Hotel, Connecticut Ave, DC ---at 8 – 9 pm at the NHMA Suite (Elena Rios name). We were hoping you might know local Washington, DC medical or surgical residents ---if you can forward their names and emails I will invite them to join us.
We are excited about formalizing our relationships with our member medical students and residents. The purpose of the Council is to develop activities for NHMA medical student and resident members at the NHMA conference, develop policy recommendations for consideration to the Board of Directors and to increase NHMA membership. We will discuss organizational priorities, meeting schedule, and appoint the first Chairperson to be our point person. Board Members will be meeting with the group and refreshments will be served.
I would also like to provide complementary registration to the Conference for your participation in the Council. Let me know if you can join us. See www.nhmamd.org for the conference agenda. Also, any other referrals welcome….send to me ASAP.
Elena Rios, MD, MSPH
President & CEO
National Hispanic Medical Association
1411 K St., NW, S.1100
Washington, DC 20005
Fax (202) 628-5898
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