The National Conference provides valuable professional education on the latest research and innovative health care prevention and clinical responses to domestic violence. The Family Violence Prevention Fund’s Fifth National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence will be held October 8-10, 2009 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Co-chaired by 35 organizations, including the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Nursing (ANA), and the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), the gathering has been hailed as "the best violence related conference" in the country and is expected to draw more than 1,000 participants from around the world.

Specialized half and full-day pre-conference institutes will be held on October 8th followed by the two-day conference, October 9-10, 2009. The Conference includes an exhibit hall for vendors.

All health care professionals, physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, nurse midwives, mental and behavioral health providers, social workers, health professional students, health policy leaders, advocates for victims of domestic violence and others.

The goal of the Fifth National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence is to advance the field of health care's response to domestic violence. The conference will:

• specifically examine the long term health impacts, co-occurring issues, and responses related to victims, children, perpetrators, and communities effected by domestic violence;
• describe the latest physical and mental health findings related to risk factors for, effects of, and clinical and health services prevention, identification, and response to domestic violence;
• highlight innovative research, practices, programs, and partnerships between health management systems, providers, public health and Medicaid programs, legal systems, social service agencies, and domestic violence advocates that improve patient safety and health status at the local state, national and international levels;
• emphasize prevention and intervention strategies relevant to diverse cultures, races, classes, ethnicity, religions, physical abilities, ages, genders, sexual identities, geographic settings and communities.

The Call for Abstracts will be launched online October 30, 2008.

Conference registration and hotel reservations will open online April 2009.

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