[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 70 (Thursday, April 10, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19517-19518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7586]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Service Administration


Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based 
Linkages; Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given of the following 
meeting:

    Name: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based 
Linkages (ACICBL).
    Dates and Times: May 7, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; May 9, 2008, 
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
    Place: Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Executive Meeting Center, 
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, Telephone: 301-468-1100.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: The Committee will focus on rural issues and how the 
Title VII Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Training Grant Programs 
identified under sections 751-756, Part D of the Public Health 
Service

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Act can respond to the current rural healthcare workforce needs. The 
Committee has invited speakers to highlight various topics related 
to rural healthcare workforce issues including, but not limited to, 
discipline specific shortages; recruitment and retention; health 
professions training; faculty development; telemedicine; and other 
specific rural health care issues. The meeting will afford committee 
members with the opportunity to identify and discuss the current 
status of the healthcare workforce in rural America and formulate 
appropriate recommendations to the Secretary and to the Congress 
regarding a variety of training strategies to address the health 
workforce shortage issues.
    Agenda: The ACICBL agenda includes an overview of the 
Committee's general business activities, presentations by experts on 
rural healthcare workforce related issues, and discussion sessions 
specific for the development of recommendations to be addressed in 
the Eighth Annual ACICBL Report.
    Agenda items are subject to change as dictated by the priorities 
of the Committee.
    Supplementary Information: The ACICBL will join the Council on 
Graduate medical Education (COGME), the National Advisory Council on 
Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP), and the Advisory Committee on 
Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry (ACTPCMD) on May 8, 
2008, for the first Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) All Advisory 
Committee Meeting. Please refer to the Federal Register notice for 
the BHPr All Advisory Committee Meeting for additional details.
    For Further Information Contact: Anyone requesting information 
regarding the ACICBL should contact Louis D. Coccodrilli, Designated 
Federal Official for the ACICBL, Bureau of Health Professions, 
Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Rm 
9-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301) 443-6950 
or [email protected]. Additionally, Adriana Guerra, Public 
Health Fellow, can be contacted at (301) 443-6194 or 
[email protected].

    Dated: April 3, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
 [FR Doc. E8-7586 Filed 4-9-08; 8:45 am]
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