For the past 113 years, the National Medical Association (NMA) has conducted its Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly, the nation’s foremost conference devoted to medical science and African American health. Marilyn West, CEO of M.H. West & Co., Inc. was excited to exchange ideas with fellow experts at the convention.
The 2009 NMA Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly (held in Las Vegas from July 25th through July 29th), offered an exciting venue to interact with the largest spectrum of African American physicians, academicians and scientists in the country as well as other allied health professionals. Scientific presentations highlighted state-of the art research, new technologies, and practice management issues across twenty-five medical specialties.
High schoolers in Chesapeake are referred to guidance counselors. Middle schoolers get the lesson in health class: how to spot gangs, what gangs do, and how to stay away. Now Chesapeake wants to extend these lessons to elementary school students, and eventually even kindergartners. Starting this fall, students in grades three to five will have gang prevention and awareness classes. 
M. H. West & Co., Inc. (WEST) recently designed and facilitated a 2nd Peer to Peer Exchange at the