The Annual Medical-Surgical Conference is aimed at providing presentations to enhance clinical competency and to promote professional development. This annual conference is the result of the efforts of nurse educators and leaders from many local medical centers and hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area. Since 1980, this consortium has planned this conference, which has always been directed exclusively for nurses who practice in what is commonly referred to as ‘Med-Surg’ nursing. Nurses who attend this conference benefit from a variety of presentations from both local and nationally-known speakers.
Spotlight on our speakers
Donna Wright, MS, RN, Creative Health Care Management
A staff development specialist known for her irreverent wit, Donna brings a global perspective to her work—literally. She’s worked on every continent but Antarctica, and she has her eyes set on that, too: “There’s an infirmary there!” she says.
Mary Dickow, MPA, California Action Coalition
Mary Dickow is the Statewide Director for the California Action Coalition for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Future of Nursing initiative at the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The Action Coalition’s mission is to implement the recommendations set forth in the… Read more »
Debra A. Toney, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nevada Health Centers
Dr. Debra A. Toney is the director of nursing at Nevada Health Centers in Las Vegas, Nevada a federally qualified health center with 16 locations throughout the State. She has over 30 years of experience in the nursing and health… Read more »