Annual Meeting News
The 2022 Annual Meeting is just a few months away. The Program Committee is working diligently on developing an outstanding educational experience for all attendees.
Online registration will be available in January.
Gallagher Lecturer
SAHM is pleased to announce that Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, is the 2022 Gallagher Lecturer. Dr. Levine will address the SAHM Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 9, at 9 a.m. PT.
Admiral Rachel L. Levine, MD, serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Adm. Levine has had a storied career, first as a physician in academic medicine focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents and young adults; then as Pennsylvania’s Physician General. Later as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, she addressed COVID-19, the opioid crisis, behavioral health and other public health challenges. Read more.
Plenary Speakers
The 2022 Plenary Lecturers are Peter Rowe, MD, Director Children’s Center Chronic Fatigue Clinic, Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Cornelis (Kess) Rietmeijer, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized as a clinical, research, public health and policy leader and educator in the area of STI and HIV.
Dr. Cornelis (Kess) Rietmeijer, MD PhD, is internationally recognized as a clinical, research, public health and policy leader and educator in the area of STI and HIV. He will address the SAHM Annual Meeting on Wednesday, March 9, at 9:30 a.m. He is most recently medical director of the Denver STD/HIV Clinical Prevention Training Center and professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is the former President of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and director of the North American Region of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections. Read more.
Dr. Peter Rowe, MD, Director Children’s Center Chronic Fatigue Clinic, Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will address the SAHM Annual Meeting on Saturday, March 12, at 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. His areas of clinical expertise include chronic fatigue syndrome and other disorders characterized by fatigue and orthostatic intolerance. Dr. Rowe and his colleagues were the first to describe the relationship between chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and treatable orthostatic intolerance syndromes, as well as the association between Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and CFS. Dr. Rowe will give his plenary on understanding and managing long COVID in adolescents. Read more.
