Rural Health Institute to Host Crossroads Conference
Texas has the nation’s largest rural population, with more than 3.6 million rural residents in 2000.
The F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health will host the 2014 Crossroads Conference: Navigating Health Care in West Texas June 4 and 5 at the Overton Hotel and Conference Center, 2322 Mac Davis Lane.
The Crossroads Conference will bring together health care professionals and community leaders from across West Texas. This year’s conference will feature presentations covering the ICD 10, navigating the system, rural health care research, gateway to health careers, health information technology workforce, telemedicine, rural mental health and breast cancer navigation, among others.
The conference welcomes health care executives and management teams serving hospitals and clinics of West Texas, community leaders, state agency personnel working with rural communities and rural health care, leaders from nonprofit organizations of West Texas, businesses that serve the rural population and academic institutions involved in rural health care.
Featured speakers include Susan Fenton, Ph.D., MBA, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Mickey Schaefer, Ph.D., chief financial officer, Sutton County Hospital District; Beverly Nixon-Lewis, D.O., regional chief medical information officer, TTUHSC School of Medicine at Amarillo; Holly Jeffreys, DNP, FNP-BC, Family Care Clinic of Panhandle; Jennifer Campos, R.N., Texas Oncology Breast Specialists; Kathy Chauncey, Ph.D., R.D., West Texas Cancer Survivors Network; Mike Gilliam Jr., MSW, MPH, Texas Department of State Health Services; Russell Lowrey-Hart, Ph.D., Amarillo College; and Carolyn Witherspoon, BSN, R.N., Coalition of Health Services.
Tickets at the door are $125 for professionals and $50 for students. To register for the conference, visit http://www.westtexasahec.org and click on “Crossroads Conference.”
For more information, contact Briana Vela, communications coordinator for the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health West Texas Area Health Education Center, at briana.vela@ttuhsc.edu.
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