Brooklyn Free Clinic Presents TEDMED Live Conference, April 20
Apr 19, 2013
SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Brooklyn Free Clinic is presenting a TEDMED Live Conference, Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Gowanus Ballroom, 55 9th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Smith Street), Brooklyn, NY 11215.
The event takes place from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and will feature talks from local leaders in health, education, communication, and
policy.
Presentations at The Brooklyn Free Clinic’s TEDMED Live Conference will focus on three
areas:
Education and Communication: How can medical education and communication impact the
future of our healthcare system?
Issues with Access: How is access to healthcare changing, and how will it affect medicine?
Translating Evidence into Action: How is technology changing the healthcare experience?
The Brooklyn Free Clinic is a student-run clinic for the uninsured. Care is provided
under the supervision of SUNY Downstate physician faculty members. For more information,
visit www.brooklynfreeclinic.org.
TEDMED is a multi-disciplinary community of innovators and leaders who share a common
determination to create a better future in health and medicine. For more information
about TEDMED, visit www.tedmed.com.
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the
United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside.
A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY
Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and
Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health,
University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology
Incubator.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.