KCHP to Hold Research Day Activities April 9 in Pocatello and Meridian
April 7, 2010
Communities and KCHP: Advancing Idaho Health Care Together is the theme of the annual ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Kasiska College of Health Professions Research Day, Friday, April 9, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Pocatello and Meridian.
Keynote speaker is Boise physician Karl Watts, the American Academy of Family Physicians’ 2010 Physician of the Year. Dr. Watts, who will speak from 9-9:50 a.m., at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø-Meridian, is also founder of Genesis World Mission and a member of Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s 2007 Select Committee on Health Care.
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Health care providers, ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø faculty, students and the public are invited to the event which will feature presentations on numerous research topics, including tobacco use among Hispanic teens; alcohol consumption and postmenopausal women; children and cochlear implants; and food allergies in south Idaho restaurants.
Activities will be held in the Pond Student Union and at the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø-Meridian Health Science Center, 1311 E. Central Drive, just north of I-84 between Eagle and Meridian roads. Sessions will be broadcast simultaneously using distance-learning technology.
This is the 21st Research Day on the Pocatello campus and the third in the Treasure Valley. The event is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and health-care partners to showcase research they’re conducting at regional, national and international levels and to encourage collaboration among disciplines, said Talford, a research committee member and clinical assistant professor in the Physician Assistant Studies Program at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø-Meridian.
For more information about Research Day, contact David Talford at (208) 373-1808 or talfdavi@isu.edu .