You can make an impact by joining a working group today. Come behind the scenes of our first hybrid conference and be the first to learn about new developments in the field, influence conference programming and discover the latest innovators in areas directly relevant to your work. Working group members also receive a discount off their registration fee.
Please extend this invitation along to your patients, colleagues, and staff. Having diverse voices, especially patients, in the working groups helps us build a varied and relevant program.
Conference Themes
We’re setting up working groups for concurrent sessions, posters, and the Bright Lights Awards program. We will continue to have regularly scheduled webinars focused on primary care teams’ needs for the rest of the year so as always send in your suggestions! For this conference, we welcome speaker suggestions so let us know your thoughts as the five conference themes will focus on:
- It takes a team: collaboration inside and out
- Health equity at the centre
- Sustainable solutions to primary care problems
- Mental health and addictions
Working Group Details
Concurrent program working group members:
The task requires a total of 4-10 hours of effort in May and June, specifically:
- April 26 to May 26: AFHTO staff will manage the call for proposals process.
- Week of May 9: working groups will have an initial Zoom session to brainstorm ideas on specific topics and speakers to contact/encourage to submit a presentation abstract.
- May 31 to June 10: each working group member individually reviews and scores abstracts for their program.
- June 13 to 16: working groups will meet via Zoom to review scores and determine the program for this theme.
Sign up by May 3, 2022, to confirm your participation and select your preferred conference theme.
“Bright Light” Awards Review Committee:
The task requires a total of 6-12 hours in July and August, specifically to individually review and score nominations followed by a Zoom meeting to determine the award winners. Sign up by May 3, 2022
We may also need volunteers onsite during the conference itself. There may be other duties as we update our conference program but like other volunteers described above, onsite volunteers will receive discounted conference registration. Sign up today.
Registration Fees for Conference Working Groups:
- Conference working group members and presenters receive a $35 discount off their registration fee
- We understand patients face additional financial and time pressures and do not want the registration fee to limit participation in a working group. Patients participating in full in a conference working group will be eligible for complimentary registration (to be determined once the working group task is complete).
AFHTO members still receive a significant discount on conference registration fees.
Conference key dates:*
- April 26, 2022- Call for abstracts
- May 26, 2022– Deadline for abstracts
- June 15, 2022 – Bright Lights nominations
- July 2022- Conference registration opens
- October 12, 2022– AFHTO 2022 Conference
*All dates subject to change, except the conference dates.
To our sponsors, the sponsorship prospectus is coming soon. For more information, you can contact us by phone (647-234-8605) or e-mail (info@afhto.ca).