Preventive Medicine 2012, the annual meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine, is the premier event for professionals in disease prevention and health promotion. The meeting advances the science of preventive medicine through state-of-the-art educational programming and abundant networking opportunities.

Conference Objectives:

•  Acquire the information and skills necessary to convey issues and evidence-based recommendations in population health and prevention policy.
  

• Describe innovative approaches to public health issues and advances in public health programs.

• Understand current recommendations for assessing health risks and delivering effective, evidence based clinical preventive services to individuals and populations.
• Understand how to apply quality improvement tools and techniques to continuously improve healthcare processes and programs.
• Gain increased knowledge and skills for the effective practice of Lifestyle Medicine
• Describe career options and pathways in both the public sector and private sector, and explain the challenges and opportunities present in changing jobs and career focus throughout the professional lifetime of a preventive medicine physician.

Meeting Tracks
Preventive Medicine 2012 will be featuring state-of-the-art educational sessions and skill building institutes within three conference tracks:

• Clinical Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine: This track covers a wide range of topics in evidence-based clinical prevention, including health promotion, early clinical detection and case-finding, counseling and risk factor modification, and intervention.
• Public Health Practice: This track encompasses innovations in population-based approaches to preventing and controlling disease. Sessions on this track aim to emphasize issues of public health significance.
• Prevention Policy: This track seeks to provide participants with an understanding of important and emerging national policy issues of concern to preventive medicine professionals, and to improve participants’ effectiveness in addressing policy issues of concern in their own communities.

 
In addition, Preventive Medicine 2012 will present sessions on medical quality and career development.