Community Health Leadership Conference

The seventh annual DOCS Community Health Leadership Conference (CHLC) was held on April 15th-16th, 2022. We had 135 participants from 8 medical schools throughout the country in attendance at the first back in-person DOCS conference since 2019. We hosted over 65 unique posters on community health initiatives at student-run free clinics, health fairs, and healthcare service organizations across the United States.

This year, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Erin Kobetz, Vice Provost for Research + Scholarship, as our Keynote Speaker, who spoke candidly about the importance of aligning passion with purpose. We also offered conference participants an opportunity to volunteer at the Allapattah Health Fair and get a behind-the-scenes perspective on the logistics of health fair planning.

We are very proud of our success over the past seven years and are hoping we can continue improving the conference to become the premier national event for leaders at student-run health initiatives to share, collaborate, and improve the services they provide to their patients.

Awards Gala Highlights

First Place in Oral Presentation: Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University “Development and Implementation of Social Needs Assessment at a Student Run Free Clinic”

First Place in Poster Presentation: Northeast Ohio Medical University “Telehealth Education at a Student Run Free Clinic”