PAHO ECC 1^st Conference for

Health Services Managers and Clinical Engineers

20-24 October, 2008  Barbados

Health Services Managers Conference Presentations:

Day 1 presentations:

 The Convergence Clinical and Information Technologies

Keynote, Elliot B. Sloane, PhD, CCE

Confronting Health Management and Financing Challenges in the Caribbean

Stanley Lalta, MD

Ensuring the Right to Health: a managers responsibility

Cecilia Acuna, MD, MSc

Decision-Making: Perspectives

Gisele Almeida, MS

Belize HIS: from project to action

Ian Smith

From WinSIG to PERC: a new era

Reynaldo Holder, MD

Human Resources in Health - Policies, Planning and Management

Felix Rigoli

Day 2 presentations:

Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems

Keynote: Hernan Montenegro, MD

Defining new infrastructure needs in health: the decision-making process

Keynote: Antonio Hernandez, Eng.

Decentralization Roundtable

Decentralization Experience in Angulia

Bonnie Richardson-Lake, MD

Decentralization Experience in BVI

Irad Potter, MD

Decentralization Experience in TRT

Andrea Yearwood, MD

Challenges in the Transition to Integrated Delivery Systems - New compentencies

Denis Roy, MD, MPH, MSc

 Challenges of Vertical Programs in managing health services

Amalia del Riego, MD

Business Management Skills for Healthcare Managers

Henry Anderson