Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 20th National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

Call for Posterboard Proposals

Does your organization have an improvement story to share? Submit an application to display your story as a posterboard by October 3, 2008.

If you have questions regarding the Posterboard Proposal, please contact Lindsay Saternow at lsaternow@ihi.org.

Call for Speaker Proposals

The 2008 National Forum speaker proposal application deadline was February 29, 2008. If you submitted an application to speak at this year's National Forum, you will receive notification via email by the end of May 2008.

Each year, we accept speaker proposal applications December through February. The application is typically posted immediately after the National Forum for the following year. The speaker application for the 2009 National Forum will be available online by mid-December 2008.

If you have comments or questions regarding speaker proposals, please contact Emily Crites at ecrites@ihi.org.

Call for Abstracts: Fourteenth Annual International Scientific Symposium

The Fourteenth Annual International Scientific Symposium on Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care, sponsored by the Academy for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will be held on December 9 as part of IHI’s National Forum in Nashville, Tennessee.

Abstracts featuring state-of-the-art work in health services delivery and health professions education are being accepted through September 5, 2008. Papers are competitively selected through peer-review.

For more information about abstract submission, selection, and presentation at the Scientific Symposium, visit the Academy for Healthcare Improvement website at http://a4hi.org/?q=node/68.