We invite you, your colleagues and patients to participate in a conference program working group and earn a $50 discount on registration for the AFHTO 2015 Conference. Play a valuable role by discovering the thought leaders in your chosen topic area and by shaping the content of the AFHTO conference for your peers across the province. Please inform your colleagues, staff and patients so they have the opportunity to participate. Based on our experience, and feedback from last year’s conference, we strongly encourage patient participation in the conference working groups. The theme for the 2015 Conference is Team-Based Primary Care: The Foundation of a Sustainable Health System. Seven concurrent streams will focus on:
- Population-based primary health care: planning and integration for the community
- Optimizing capacity of interprofessional teams
- Transforming patients’ and caregivers’ experience and health
- Building the rural health care team: making the most of available resources
- Advancing manageable meaningful measurement
- Leadership and governance for accountable care
- Clinical innovations keeping people at home and out of the hospital
(Click here for descriptions) Working groups are being set up for each of the seven concurrent streams and for the Bright Lights Awards program. Concurrent program working group members: The task requires a total of 4-10 hours of effort between April and early June, specifically:
- April 7 – May 11: AFHTO staff will manage the call for proposals process.
- April 8 to 14: each working group will have an initial teleconference to brainstorm ideas on specific topics and speakers to pursue.
- May 13 to 26: each working group member individually reviews and scores presentation abstracts for their program.
- May 28 to June 3: working groups will teleconference to review scores and determine the program for this theme.
Click here to sign-up before April 7, 2015 to confirm participation and select your conference theme. “Bright Light” Awards Review Committee: The task requires a total of 6-12 hours of effort in August and September, specifically to individually review and score nominations followed by a group teleconference to determine the award winners. Click here to sign up before May 29, 2015.
Registration Fees for Conference Working Groups:
- Conference working group members and presenters receive a $50 discount off their registration fee.
- We understand patients face additional financial and time pressures and do not want the registration fee to limit participation in a working group. Patients participating in full in a conference working group will be eligible for complimentary registration (to be determined once the working group task is complete).
- Conference registration fees for AFHTO members remain the same for the third year in a row.
Conference key dates:
- April 7, 2015: Applications for concurrent session and poster abstracts open
- May 11, 2015: Deadline to submit concurrent session and poster abstract
- End of June 2015: Conference registration opens
- October 28 & 29, 2015: AFHTO 2015 Conference
For more information you can contact us by phone (647-234-8605) or e-mail (info@afhto.ca). Saleemeh Abdolzahraei, Membership Engagement Lead Phone: (647) 234-8605 ext. 200 | Email: saleemeh@afhto.ca Paula Myers, Membership, Communications and Conference Coordinator Phone: (647) 234-8605 ext. 206 | Email: paula.myers@afhto.ca