EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR-- RESEARCH AND CHILD HEALTH ADVOCACY: FROM COMMUNITY TO CONGRESS – Saturday, May 1, 1999, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – Moscone Center, Room 124: This educational seminar session – Research and Child Health Advocacy: From Community to Congress -- is an especially timely session with the new RRC advocacy requirement. Educational Seminars are designed to be an interactive session to address practical topics for trainees and young family. This session is enhanced by the invited speakers: Myron Genel, MD, Associate Dean, Office of Government & Community Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine, a former Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and chair of the Public Policy Council and pediatrician and child health care community activist Abraham Bergman, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington. Karen Hendricks, JD, Washington Coordinator, Public Policy Council will also participate.

PUBLIC POLICY PLENARY SESSION – Monday, May 3, 1999, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.:
As pediatrics and pediatricians look forward to the 21^st century, the 1999 PAS meeting will provide a unique opportunity to review, to discuss and to ask questions about the almost final report and recommendations of the Task Force on the Future of Pediatric Education II. The Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Public Policy Council sponsor this annual Public Policy Plenary Session. Speakers are: Jimmy Simon, MD, Tasj Force Chair, Russell Chesney, MD, Task Force Co-Chair and Errol Alden, MD, Deputy Executive Director, American Academy of Pediatics.

PUBLIC POLICY FORUM LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST – Monday, May 3, 1999, 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m., Room 309 Moscone Center: "A Model for Academic Pediatrics in a Managed Care Environment -The Lucile Packard Children's Health Services of UCSF-Stanford Health Care" with Harvey Cohen, MD and Larry Shapiro, MD.

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