2008 Healthy Students, Healthy Communities Conference
The 2008 Healthy Students, Healthy Communities Conference sponsored by the Regional Perinatal Forum Committee on Education will be held Tuesday, April 29, 2008 in Farkas Auditorium at NYU Medical Center.
In 2003, the members of the MRF Committee on Education developed a goal to improve child health through school based education. Conceiving a health education partnership with the NYC Department of Education the committee aims to provide a "teach the teacher" initiative for their region of Manhattan and to create a health educator and school educator council.
The overall goals are to improve the broad health education and support for pre-teens and adolescents who are of preconception age afterall they are the future of our communities.
The committee believes that healthy students will lead to healhty communities. This year's conference focuses on the role of mental health in overall adolescent and community health.
Karen D Hendricks-Muñoz, M.D., M.P.H.
Chair Committee on Education
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Location: NYU Medical Center, Farkas Auditorium, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Who Should Attend: Principals, teachers, health educators, guidance counselors, school nurses, social workers, parent school coordinators, PTA/PTO leaders, community health workers, Title X workers, teachers-in-training, and others who work directly with middle school-aged or early high school students
Cost: Free
Register by Friday, April 18, 2008
Registration Form
Dr. Karen Hendricks-Muñoz Inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha
Dr. Karen Hendrics-Muñoz, Director, Division of Neonatology, was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha as a faculty member by NYU School of Medicine Delta chapter.
AOA is the only national honor medical society in the world and was established to recognize and perpetuate excellence in medicine.
As stated in the society's consitution, "Alpha Omega Alpha is organized for educational purposes exclusively and not for profit, and its aims shall be the promotion of scholarship and research in medical schools, the encouragement of a high standard of character and conduct among medical students and graduates, and the recognition of high attainment in medical science, practice, and related fields."
Up to two alumni/alumnae members and two faculty members may be elected to AOA in recognition of individuals who have distinguished themselves in their professional careers.
