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2010 Conference

DiversityRx 2010:

The Seventh National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations:

Improving health care for culturally diverse populations:  A new place on the national health agenda

October 18-21, 2010 - Baltimore, MD

Attendee Reviews: 

The Seventh National Conference was well-attended and well-received, with more attendees than any of the previous conferences.  Comments from participant evaluation forms included the following comments about the most valuable aspects of the conference:


• The variety of learning opportunities and networking supports!
• The overarching theme of the conference.
• Updates on major new initiatives.
• Learning about what others are working on. 
• Interacting with others who have similar interests
• Real experiences from the field.
• The variety of participants: policy makers, health providers, payers, educators, researchers, etc.
• Diversity of topics and panelists, quality of presenting.
• Getting the presentations before the conference. It gave me lots of insight before the conference.

2010 Conference Statistics:
 

• Total registrants:  842
• Participants hailed from 16 different countries including: Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Qatar, Switzerland, Turkey, US Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, and USA
• 59 breakout sessions, including a dozen intensive training sessions offered on the Preconference Day
• 67 Poster presentations
• 30 Exhibitors
• Special Session hosted by Johns Hopkins, and featuring a full-length feature film, “Ocean of Pearls”