HealthNewsReview.org On The Road

2013 talks, workshops, presentations

Feb. 18-20

National Cancer Institute Cancer Research in the Media workshop, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Feb. 20-22 

Selling Sickness conference, Washington, D.C.

March 14-17

Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference, Boston

April 23

16th Annual Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture in Bioethics, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School , New Brunswick, NJ

June 16-19

International Shared Decision-Making Conference, Lima, Peru

June 24-28

World Conference of Science Journalists, Helsinki, Finland

2012 talks, workshops, presentations

April 19-22 Health Journalism 2012: The Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference

Atlanta, Georgia

10 a.m. – noon Thursday April 19, Evaluating medical evidence for journalists

Learn how to uncover the flaws in published medical research – essential knowledge for journalists charged with evaluating the quality of evidence and the potential tradeoffs between benefits and harms.

• Instructor: Ivan Oransky, M.D., executive editor, Reuters Health; blogger, Retraction Watch and Embargo Watch
• Instructor: Gary Schwitzer, publisher, HealthNewsReview.org

April 23-24 University of Wisconsin-Madison conference, Science Writing in the Age of Denial

May 7-8 National Cancer Institute – Cancer Research in the Media workshop for journalists in Beijing, China – hosted by Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

July 22-26 The Rocky Mountain Workshop on How to Practice Evidence-Based Health Care – Steamboat Spring, CO

October 29-30 New England Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting (NAHSL) Woodstock, VT

December 4, 2012 MIT Medical Evidence Boot Camp, Cambridge, MA

2011 talks, workshops, presentations

January 19:  New England Science Writers bloggers panel, Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA

January 25-26:   Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Research & Policy Forum, Washington, DC

April 14- 17: Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference, Philadelphia

May 1:  National Breast Cancer Coalition annual meeting

May 5-6: Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee, Washington, DC

May 19: US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Evidence-based Practice Centers, Rockville, MD

June 3:  American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting, Denver, CO

June 23-24:  European Health Journalism conference, Coventry University, UK

July 13-16: National Institutes of Health Medicine in the Media workshop, Hanover, NH

July 17-20:  Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication, Boston

July 24-26:  Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Summer Medical Editors meeting, Jackson Hole, WY

August 15-16:  Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee, Washington, DC

September 26: National Breast Cancer Coalition media workshop, New York City, NY

September 28:  International Biomedical Journalism Symposium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

October 1:  Minnesota Breast Cancer Awareness Association annual meeting keynote speaker

November 8-9: National Cancer Institute Cancer Research in the Media workshop for Latin American journalists, Guadalajara, Mexico

December 6-9:  Medical Evidence Boot Camp, Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT, Cambridge, MA