2014 Annual Meeting, October 23 and 24, 2014

The Citizen Advocacy Center invites you to attend our twenty-seventh annual meeting, to be held on October 23 and 24, 2014, in Baltimore, MD. We are pleased that the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, an enthusiastic supporter of public representation on health professional licensing boards, will co-sponsor this years meeting.

Registration feeis $425.00 for members and $525.00 for non-members.

You may download theProgram Announcement and Meeting Registration Formorregister online.

The purpose of health professional licensing is to protect public health and safety. This is what licensing boards strive to achieve when they perform their statutory functions and promulgate rules to implement the laws enacted by state legislatures. Sometimes, a so-called silo mentality interferes with licensing boards working collaboratively with sister boards in their own states, with healthcare facility agencies, with voluntary certification and specialty organizations, with law enforcement agencies, citizen organizations, and with other institutional bodies. This years annual meeting agenda focuses on ways in which health professional regulatory bodies can shed the silo mentality and work collaboratively with others in pursuit of their common mission of public protection.

There are multiple agencies and institutions with which boards might collaborate. Collaboration might be formal or informal, regular or occasional, policy-oriented or operational in nature. We will discuss all of these possibilities at the meeting.