The 23rd National Immunization Conference for Health Care Workers was held on December 7th, 2012 at the Manchester Conference Centre. There were over 220 delegates for this event sponsored by educational grants from Crucell, Glaxo Smith Kline, Pfizer Vaccines and Sanofi Pasteur. A number of speakers took the opportunity kindly afforded by Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics to write up their ...

March is health policy conference time! The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) thrilled that Rear Admiral Susan Orsega, MSN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, will be joining us this month at the 2022 AANP Health Policy Conference to share her career-long journey in advocating for patients and NPs. This offers content every NP advocate — from novices experts plenty take-home ideas resources...

The Keystone Symposia Early Career Investigator Travel Award initiative is a unique successful research mentoring program tailored for 'end of the pipeline' life and biomedical scientists from academia and industry. Using targeted educational, mentoring, and networking activities, the program benefits early career scientists in solving a specific laboratory-based research question that is limit...

1. Conflict of interest: ABA received fellowships from The Dowling Club, Procter & Gamble, and received educational grants or acted as an investigator for Pfizer, Merck Serono, Basilea, LEO Pharma and Almirall. MP has received funding for research from Pfizer (formerly Wyeth). ADS and CCL have acted as paid consultants for Pzifer and have received funding for research. DJA received fees from Sc...

Merrilyn Goos is Director of the Teaching and Educational Development Institute at The University of Queensland. From 1998–2007 Professor Goos co-ordinated pre-service and postgraduate courses in mathematics education at UQ. Her research in mathematics education has investigated secondary school students’ learning, teaching approaches that promote higher order thinking, mathematics teachers’ le...

VIVO, funded by NIH, utilizes Semantic Web technologies to model scientists and provides federated search to enhance the discovery of researchers and collaborators across disciplines and organizations. VIVO ontology is designed with the focus on modeling scientists, publications, resources, grants, locations, and services. It incorporates classes from popular ontologies, such as BIBO, Dublin Co...

The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) gratefully acknowledges grants and conference support from the following organizations and agencies: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Susan G. Komen For The Cure; American Society of Clinical Oncology; US National Cancer Institute, Office of International Affairs; American Cancer Society; Lance Armstrong Foundation; US Agency for Healthcare Rese...