Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) 2020 Annual Meeting

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) 2020 Annual Meeting is organized by Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) and will be held from Mar 11 - 14, 2020 at Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 24.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits for physicians, 21.50 contact hours for nurses, and 12.0 MOC Part 2 points.

Adolescent Health: Transforming Risk to Wellness
Adolescence is a time of exploration and experimentation as youth express increased interest in the experiences outside of their family circle.  Some risk-taking is necessary for neurocognitive development as adolescents move towards autonomy, learning from their errors and building heavily on the rewards. Furthermore, risk-taking and its consequences are shaped by social and community context. How is the characterization that adolescents are ‘risky’ harming their embrace by essential members of their communities and safety network?  How can adolescent health and medicine professionals embrace the notion of risk, while helping youth differentiate between those that are health affirming versus those that may result in harm? What innovative methods can be used to measure and promote healthy risk-taking behaviors among adolescents?  How can we build stronger safety nets to catch them if they fall? How can we protect youth from disparities in the outcomes and responses to their normative risk-taking behaviors? In this meeting, multidisciplinary professionals from throughout the world will assemble to share, discuss, critique, and generate strategies to transform risk and promote wellness among young people.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.