For the past 109 years, the National Medical Association (NMA) has conducted its Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly, the nation’s foremost conference devoted to medical science and African American health.  This year the NMA Annual Convention will convene from July 23 – 27, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The 2011 NMA Annual Convention & Scientific Assembly offers an exciting venue to interact with the largest spectrum of African American physicians, academicians and scientists in the country as well as other allied health professionals. The scientific program will begin with the Opening Award/Mazique Symposium on Saturday, July 23rd and continue to Sunday, July 24th through Wednesday, July 27th. 

The Joint Center Health Policy Institute will be participating in the Floyd J. Malveaux Symposium on Tuesday, July 26, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Dr. Brian Smedley will serve on a panel entitled The Economic Impact of Health Disparities.

For more information, please visit the Convention website.