Rural Health Institute to Host 2014 Crossroads Conference
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) 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.
Registration is $100 for professionals and $25 for students before May 31. 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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