NAQC Webinar Series Calendar - 2012/2013

Since 2004 NAQC has used conference call and webinar technology to offer members and partners an opportunity to dialogue with colleagues and experts from across North America on critical quitline-related topics. As always, each webinar will serve as a vehicle to encourage dialogue on promising and better practices, new research findings, and implementation successes and challenges in order to improve quality, increase understanding of the evidence base, and ensure maximized access, use and effectiveness of quitline services.

Webinar topics in the 2012/2013 series will focus primarily on the impacts of healthcare reform, national promotion efforts (including graphic health warning labels and media campaigns), and emerging technologies on our work – as a quitline community and as members of the broader tobacco control community.

Webinars will 1.5 hours long and hosted on one Wednesday each month.

Please email Tamatha Thomas-Haase at tthomas-haase@naquitline.org should you have any questions or concerns related to the webinar series. We look forward to your participation!

The 2013 Webinar Calendar: A Look Ahead!

February 13, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
Integrating Chronic Disease Management into Quitline Services
Several years ago, NAQC conducted an informal survey of quitline funders to highlight the growing linkages between quitlines and chronic disease programs. This webinar will feature examples of programs that have integrated interventions and highlight their measured impact and lessons learned.

March 13, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
TBD
Description coming soon!

April 17, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
DRAFT Quitline Referral Methods Issue Paper: Feedback from NAQC Members
This webinar is intended to provide participants with an overview of the major content areas of the draft Quality Improvement Initiative Issue Paper and the author’s recommendations to the field. Following a brief presentation by the author, participants will be given the opportunity to provide feedback to the author on the paper’s strengths and weaknesses and offer suggestions for improvement.

May 15, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
The Future of Quitlines
This webinar will feature the author of NAQC’s paper on the future of quitlines and a review of the content. Discussion of the paper’s considerations will be encouraged.

June 12, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
Celebrating Two Years of the Medicaid Quitline Guideline
Description coming soon!

July 17, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
Leveraging Quitlines to Drive Health Systems Policy Change
Description coming soon!

August 14, 2013
12:30 – 2PM ET
Movement Toward Electronic Referral: A Progress Report
Description coming soon!