Acp seattle convention

A working group made of up representatives from the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council, and the Canadian Christian Communicators Association is currently in talks about presenting an in-person convention in the spring of in Chicago. For ease of travel and logistics, we are planning to return to the facilities at Fourth Presbyterian Church on the Magnificent Mille. Learn More. Chapter Meetings Iowa Chapter Meeting.

October 28 - 29, Edward Markey U. Senator D - Massachusetts. Department of Energy. Governor Charlie Baker Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Laura Beane President. Jane Cohen Executive Director. George Detweiler Jr. Lars Gonschorek CEO. Christine Harada Executive Director. Wheeler shared that these services are more necessary now than ever before due to diminished access to communal resources such as restrooms and water within the community, as well as fear of communal housing.

Wheeler explained that her multidisciplinary team has found a key ally in their work by partnering with community members of the public who organized on social media to support their neighbors living homeless. Wheeler certainly fulfills many important roles, not least of which are wife, mother, and most recently, paddle board coach to her new puppy. All in all, she sets an excellent example for any future internist to look up to.

This yearly event is designed for our medical students and residents and focuses on projects and careers in medical scholarship and education. Our format, for the second consecutive year, was virtual using a Zoom platform and included presentations by our associate members on selected research projects as part of our abstract competition and a career mentorship panel moderated by our Planning Committee leader Sandra Demars.

We again had a record number of abstracts submitted, with 38 this year! Nine submissions, from both medical students and residents, were selected to give oral presentations at Spring Scientific Day and 17 submissions were presented as posters.

We had 90 registered attendees for the conference who watched these superb talks and viewed the poster presentations. We would also like to congratulate our oral presentation competition winners: for the medical student competition, Joanna Lio, from the University of Washington School of Medicine and for the resident competition, Dr Linda Liu, from the University of Washington Internal Medicine Residency. Thank you to all our attendees, staff, and judges, and special thanks to our students and residents and to their mentors for all their hard work.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the Fall Meeting. The session will include tips on when and why to discuss goals of care and frameworks for brief go. Please join us for our 3rd Annual Resident Career Forum!

The evening will be focused on revealing the inner workings of the recruitment process and the interview trail from finding open positions to the process of signing a contract!

Recruiters from some of our local institutions will offer their insights into the process along with a panel of early career hospitalists and primary care physicians from a variety of Washington hospitals and clinics who will share their experiences and advice from their job searches. Finally, a contract lawyer will review key tips in reviewing a contract. This is an excellent opportunity for internal medicine residents and anyone else who would like to learn more to gain a better sense of how to navigate their own first steps into their post-residency careers.

This year, we are planning for a hybrid meeting, with live presentations and in-person networking in Seattle, and the ability to watch via simulcast in Spokane, WA or virtually from the comfort of your home or office.

The main meeting includes 12 plenaries and your choice of 3 of 15 workshops on an array of topics designed to address common internal medicine issues in the ambulatory and inpatient arenas. We are pleased to continue our collaboration with the WA chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine as a co-sponsor for the Inpatient Precourse and awards for associates abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you in person in November. This year in addition to offering the opportunity for individual virtual attendance at the Annual Chapter Meeting, we hope to support internists across the state who would like to gather together in their respective communities. To organize a watch party in your community you need to:. Those who accept an invitation to submit poster entries are asked to be present with their posters from — pm on Friday, November 5 th.

We have so many amazing Chapter members — the nominations for Chapter awards is now open so please nominate a colleague for one of our awards:.

Topics of discussion included forming a stronger pathway for leadership development for medical students and residents via WSMA, issues of Telehealth coverage across state lines, allowing PAs to supervise health sciences students when they work in scope for volunteer service events, and the use of nicotine vaping products and marijuana products by people under the age of