University of Iowa Health Management & Policy

Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at Capital Hill Advocacy Day By Ryan Landi The American Society on Aging (ASA) holds an annual conference that is focused on aging issues and is more practice based compared to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) that holds a conference each year as well that is more researched focused. I have attended both, but GSA was in the fall, and ASA was just a week ago and ended on April 1st! ASA was a great experience that was available to me via my Aging Fellowship with the Center on Aging at the University of Iowa. It is an interdisciplinary fellowship that involves graduates students from Medicine, Nursing, Audiology, Education, Social Work, etc. It has been a great experience this year to be part of such a program and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the aging population. My classmate, Nicole Egan, and I The ASA conference was held in Washington, D.C. this year, which opened the opportunity for me to attend a policy advocacy d...

By Karly Wallace   On March 18-21, 2012, many of the Iowa MHA students attended the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Chicago, IL. This conference is an annual event where healthcare leaders throughout the world come to discuss issues related to healthcare and leadership. Most Iowa Students attended this conference as part of the Iowa Student Association of Healthcare Leaders (ISAHL). While at ACHE Congress, I chose to be a Program Assistant. Program Assistants help put together materials for sessions and assure all the events are running smoothly. While working each session, I had the opportunity to network with fellow students, executives, and session speakers. Additionally, after handing out the materials for each session, Program Assistants were allowed to stay for the remainder of the session. I was able to hear about deigning the healthcare built environment and performance improvement. Both of these sessions were quite in...