2nd National Conference: Transforming Mental Health for Latinos through Policy, Research, Practice and Leadership
The conference, which will be held from April 22-24, 2012 at the Sheraton Miami Airport Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Miami, Florida, will host 10 individual workshops [5 per day, each offered twice during the same day], two keynote, and two plenary sessions with world-renowned Latino mental health leaders, and other behavioral health professionals dedicated to eliminating the array of disparities that exist for Latinos in need of culturally and linguistically competent mental health care services. Click for Conference Goals.
April 22-24, 2012
Sheraton Miami Airport Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
Miami, Florida
Early Bird Registration is Now Open
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Henry Acosta at 609-838-5488, x205 or via email.
Day One Speakers — April 23, 2012
Keynote Speaker – “Don’t Fall through the Cracks! Implications of Health Care Reform for Latino Behavioral Health”
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor in Clinical Internal Medicine and Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, University of California – Davis, School of Medicine
Plenary Speaker - “Reforming the Problem of Disparities: New Approaches”
Margarita Alegría, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School
Day Two Speakers — April 24, 2012
Keynote Speaker – “When Latina Teens Attempt Suicide: Findings and What More We Need to Know”
Luis Zayas, Ph.D.
Dean and Centennial Professor in Leadership, School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
Plenary Speaker – ” Poverty as a Factor in Social Crisis and Human Disasters”
Pedro Ruiz, M.D.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Director of Clinical Programs, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and President World Psychiatric Association
