ASBH 12th Annual Meeting
October 21-24, 2010
Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel
San Diego, CA
To register for the ASBH Annual Meeting, please follow this link.
Please click here to access the Annual Meeting Brochure.
Health and Community
Bioethics has been particularly concerned with the rights and welfare of individual patients and has often been criticized for not attending sufficiently to problems related to the health of populations. But there is little doubt that bioethics and the humanities have much to contribute to concerns connected to groups as well as individuals. We thus invite scholars to address health, disability, and disease as it affects local, national, and global groups. Healthcare professionals, researchers, humanists, and lawyers, can bring experiences, expertise, and interests that shape our understanding of the health of communities as it informs and is informed by ethics, law, politics, medicine, and the humanities. Proposals that critically examine issues related to social groups--such as the appropriate distribution of societal resources, the ways in which literature, film, and the arts inform concerns about the health of populations and our understanding of communities, healthcare professionals' duty to warn in cases of communicable disease (e.g., HIV/AIDS), the fair distribution of health resources (e.g., medical supplies, water, etc.) during a natural disaster, the various contributions of the arts and the humanities to the health of communities, the social determinants of health and disease, healthcare disparities, the ways historical perspectives can bear on present day policy issues, and conflicts of values between different populations--are welcomed.
Exhibits and Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship of the ASBH Annual Meeting enhances an organization's visibility with ASBH members and helps support the Society. ASBH accepts advertising, exhibits, and sponsorship from not-for-profit organizations and groups whose missions complement ASBH, such as publishers, academic programs, foundations, and professional societies. Please see the Exhibitor application, Sponsorship menu and Program Book Advertising Opportunities.
ASBH offers a limited number of support grants to early-career scholars and students toward travel expenses for the 2010 ASBH Annual Meeting. Click on the link above to access the application. Applications must be submitted by August 20.
2010 Annual Meeting presenters can access the link above for the online presenter system. Within this tool, all presenters need to electronically 'sign' the presenter agreement and download the INA data and disclosure form and the ISMS disclosure form. Please note that the 2 disclosure forms are due to the ASBH national office by Wednesday, June 30. You will not be able to present if these forms are not on file.
ASBH Meet-the-Professor Session
This session will give students and early-career scholars an oportunity to meet distinguished faculty in bioethics and the medical humanities. The session is included inthe registration fee, but preregistration is required. The registration form is located here. Further information and biographies of the participating professors is located on the ASBH Wiki page: http://www.awebsource.com/clients/asbh/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Please also visit the ASBH Wiki at the link above for a full listing of the Affinity Group Meetings schedule at the 2010 Annual Meeting.
Hotel Information
ASBH has negotiated a special conference rate at the hotel listed below. To make your reservation, please call and mention that you are attending the ASBH Meeting. Please note the cutoff date for this special rate. After this date, reservations will be taken on a space available basis.
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101
Reservations: 619-564-333, 1-800-HILTONS
or online
Rate: $249 single/double
Cut-off date: September 13, 2010
A deposit of the 1st night’s room & tax is required with all reservations, refundable up to seven (7) days in advance to conference dates. The deposit will be forfeited for all no-shows.
Ground Transportation
The Hilton San Diego Bayfront is located downtown, just minutes from the San Diego International Airport (SAN). For an average fare of $11-14, taxis are available at the airport, just follow directional signs to Transportation Plazas where you will be directed to the first available taxi. Numerous shuttle options are accessible for as low as $8 each way, pickup and drop off is located at the Transportation Plazas at the airport. Self parking is offered at the hotel for $21, or valet for $32. Other public transportation options also available, please visit www.SAN.org for additional ground transportation information.
San Diego, CA
San Diego, with its sunny days and year-round mild climate, offers many things to do. San Diego is home to the lush 1,200-acre Balboa Park, one of the nation’s largest cultural complexes with 15 major museums, performing arts venues, beautiful gardens, and the San Diego Zoo. Visit San Diego’s state-of-the-art casinos or dance to the rhythm of blues, jazz, reggae, and rock at one of the many clubs, festivals, and outdoor concerts. From sprawling discount outlet centers to quaint upscale boutiques, San Diego’s shopping venues are as varied as its weather is ideal. Begin a shopping spree downtown in he Gaslamp Quarter and its neighboring architectural wonder, Horton Plaza, or visit Old Town’s eclectic, Mexican-flavored boutiques and jewelry stores.
Airline Information
United is offering special meeting discounts for attendees of the ASBH Annual meeting. Simply call (or have your travel agent call) our Special Meeting Desk at 1-800-521-4041 and refer to Meeting ID Number 550KO to receive a 2 – 15% discount off applicable fares. If you purchase your ticket at least 30 days prior to travel, you will receive an additional 5% discount (on most classes of service). This special offer applies to travel on domestic segments of all United Airlines, United Express, and United code share flights (UA*) operated by Island Air or Great Lakes.
To purchase your ticket online, visit www.united.com and receive a 5% discount off the lowest applicable fares. After you link to www.united.com, enter your origin and destination, travel dates, and your promotion code number 550KO; available flights will then be displayed. Flights that qualify for the discount will be clearly identified with a green star symbol, which means that the itinerary is "electronic certificate eligible.” When you select an electronic certificate eligible flight, United will automatically calculate and present your discounted fare. This special offer applies to flights to or from the US only. There are no fees for booking on line. Note the Code 550KO is case sensitive and the characters need to be capitalized.
To check schedules and to take advantage of this offer, please visit www.united.com or call 1-800-521-4041.
2010 Call for Proposals
The 2010 Call for Proposals closed on March 3. Email notifications have been sent to submitters regarding the status of their proposal(s). You can check the status of your proposal by logging in to the Call for Proposals online system. The log in information is the same as what you used to submit the proposal.
All ASBH Meetings
Listing of all ASBH Annual Meetings
2009 Annual Meeting Recordings: To purchase the audio recordings of the meeting sessions, please follow this link to the vendor's website, Rollin' Recording.
2010 Program Planning Committee
Julie M Aultman, PhD MA, Northeastern Ohio University
Inmaculada De Melo-Martin, PhD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
D Micah Hester, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Martha Stoddard Holmes, PhD MA, California State University, San Marcos
Paul S Mueller, MD MPH, Mayo Clinic
Board Liaisons
Mark G Kuczewski, PhD, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Joseph J Fins, MD FACP, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact the Program Planning Committee at programcommittee@asbh.org
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