Conference to Address Health Care Disparities

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A conference addressing the issue of "AccessHealth: Collaborative Solutions for Health Care Disparities" will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 4 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The conference is sponsored by the SUNY Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research at UB and the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines.

The conference will address the social issues related to health disparities and the models available to eliminate those disparities, as well as collaborative research process within and across the health sciences, social sciences and the community. It is open to all UB faculty, clinicians, students, medical residents and others in the Western New York community.

Registration is $15 for students and medical residents, and $35 for all others. Lunch and breaks are included in the registration fee.

Registration materials are available at http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/ethnicamerican.

Keynote speakers at the conference will be Kevin Fiscella, associate professor in the departments of Family and Community and Preventative Medicine at the University of Rochester; Doriane C. Miller, senior director of quality and clinical research for the Health Research and Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association, and Mark A. Nichter, a professor in the departments of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

For further information, contact Patricia Sarchet at 829-3869 or sarchet@buffalo.edu.