The American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition is the premier public health educational forum! Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting-edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health and chiropractic experience with your peers. There is no better time or place to sharpen your skills and replenish your passion for public health and patient care.
An estimated 14,000 leaders in public health and government are expected to attend this year's meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting's theme, "Public Health and the Environment," reflects the profound impact environmental factors have on the health of the public. Issues involving the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat will be examined, as well as how we can protect and preserve the environment.
Erin Brockovich will be the keynote speaker at the Opening General Session on Sunday, Nov. 7; she will discuss her research and groundbreaking work in the area of industrial environmental negligence and its devastating effects on the public's health.
Educational Sessions and Exhibits Hall
The Annual Meeting consists of more than 900 scientific sessions, roundtables, poster sessions, institutes and panel discussions, at which over 4,000 scientific papers will be presented. Specific program presenter information is available in a searchable database with a personal scheduling application on the APHA Web site: www.apha.org/meetings.
There will be four full sessions consisting of several papers each dedicated to chiropractic topics:
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
