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IV. INVENTORY (*=restricted files)
SERIES VIII. PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Note: Park City meetings are found in Series VI, Boxes 3 & 4.
Arthritis Foundation meeting information is in Series VI, Box 9.
PRCSG - USA/USSR and USA/China meetings are throughout Series VII, Boxes 7-13.
Box 1
Folders 1 - 21
1971: ARA, San Diego, including JRA Subcommittee report by Dr. Brewer. 1972: seminar on role of orthopedist in the management of JRA, Glen Cove, NY. 1974: Governor's Conference on Arthritis, Austin. 1975: VIII European Rheumatology Congress, Helsinki, Finland, Dr. Brewer on
program.
1977: EULAR/W.H.O. Workshop, Oslo, Norway, Dr. Brewer on program; XIV International Congress of Rheumatology update, San Francisco.
1979: American Heart Assoc. State Seminar, Houston; AAP, Toronto; Coordinating Clinical Trials Symposium, Boston; ARA, Denver; Council on Pediatric Rheumatology, Bethesda, MD; JRA Education and Training Workshop, SLC; Texas Pediatric Society, Galveston; National Arthritis Advisory Board, Arlington, VA; Egyptian Orthopaedic Assoc., Cairo; AAP and American Group Practice Assoc., Las Vegas (Dr. Brewer presented three lectures and a workshop); AHP, St. Louis; 80th Ross Conference on Pediatric Research, Freeport, Bahamas; ARA, White Sulphur Springs, WV, including copy of Robert J. Brady booklet "HELPING YOUR CHILD WITH JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS" for which Dr. Brewer served as a consultant (see CV item #41); JRA panel, Atlanta.
Folders 22 - 30
1980: JRA panel, Denver; Southern Society of Pediatric Research, New Orleans; American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Atlanta; AAP, New Orleans (Dr. Brewer presented); TRA, Houston; ARA/AHP, Atlanta; Family Studies field trip (Stratton family), Oklahoma/Kansas; Cooperative Studies of Rheumatic Diseases Advisory Committee, Chicago; ARA, Chicago.
Box 2
Folders 31 - 39
1981: Rheumatology Seminar, Austin; ARA/AHP National Annual Scientific Meeting including typescript "Psychosocial Functioning in Children with JRA" for slide presentation by Dr. Brewer and Jean Ivey, Boston (see Series IX, Box 5 for additional works by Ms. Ivey); 15th International Congress of Rheumatology, Paris (Dr. Brewer presented); AAP Committee on Drugs, Chicago; AAP, New Orleans; ARA, Central Region, Chicago.
Folders 40 - 52
1982: AAP, Washington, D.C./Philadelphia; JRA mini-symposium, Tulsa; AAP, Honolulu; VIII Pan-American Congress of Rheumatology, Washington, D.C.; AAP Advisory Committee to the Board on Education, Chicago; AAP, NY (Dr. Brewer presented).
1983: Pediatric Rheumatology/Drug Therapy, Philadelphia; Pediatric Conference, UT, San Antonio (See Series X, Box 2 for Mar. 11 certificate proclaiming Dr. Brewer Alcalde de la Ciudad de la Villita); AAP, Philadelphia; XV Argentine Neurology Congress including slide script for Dr. Brewer's lectures on Histocompatibility - Genetic and Rheumatoid Diseases of Children, Buenos Aires; ARA National Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio (Dr. Brewer presented); AAP, San Francisco, including PRCSG meeting.
Box 3
Folders 53 - 56
1984: NEW HORIZONS FOR PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY, Houston, Jan. 8-10, chaired by Dr. Brewer. Includes correspondence, publicity, programs, a small 41/4" x 5-3/4" photo album containing thirteen 3-1/2" x 4-3/8" color photos, 2 color postcards of the Houston skyline, and a meeting program trimmed to fit into the album; registration forms and participant lists; first five of thirteen 3/4" format "Edited Master" video tapes of the proceedings:
Tape 1: welcome, Robert MacLean and Punam Myer; introduction of meeting topic and team approach to providing comprehensive care, Dr. Brewer.
Tape 2: panel discussion, Charlotte Shields, Gayle Kamen, Jan and Joey Navarre, Kathy and Elizabeth Angel; John Baum and Bram Bernstein, needs of patients and parents.
Tape 3: outreach concept of ambulatory care, Don Person; Raymond Lewandowski, comments; discussion; the role of CCS, Punam Myer; Virgil Hanson, comments; discussion (most of this tape is blank with only small portion of the proceedings appearing at the beginning and about mid-reel).
Tape 4: physical therapy management, Manuela Jasso (See Series IX, Box 11, for related 3/4" video tape 5b "Dancersize: Stress Management & Parent "Rap" Group"); comments, Helen Emery; problems of a tertiary center, James Cassidy; comments, Balu Athreya; discussion.
Tape 5: patient/parent education, Andrea Kovalesky; comments, Raquel Hicks; discussion; impacting medical school and residency curriculum, Jane Schaller; comments, Chester Fink; discussion; practicing physician education, Gerald Hughes; comments, Robert Nickeson.
Box 4
Last eight of thirteen 3/4" format "Edited Master" video tapes of the proceedings:
Tape 6: persuasion of pediatric departments to add rheumatology sections, Ralph Feigin; comments, Chester Fink; discussion; education of other health professionals, Phyllis Magrab; comments, John Miller; discussion.
Tape 7: AJAO and its role, Richard Weaver; comments, Dawn Hafeli; increasing public awareness through the media, Joan London; comments, Mary Jane Schier; comments, Mary Ellen Conway.
Tape 8: what schools need to know about children with arthritis, Robert Schmoll; comments, Jerry Jacobs.
Tape 9: overview of research (nine 10-minute presentations); overview, Dr. Brewer; epidemiology, Edward Giannini; immunology, Daniel Magilevy; genetics, Roger Rossen; pharmacology, Albert Pruitt.
Tape 10: health services, James Perrin; microbiology, Donald Person; psychosocial, Beth Ziebell; rehabilitation, Douglas Fenderson; basic research, John Klippel.
Tape 11: PRCSG - presentation of two potential protocols - (a) MTX in severe JRA, possible applications, Edward Giannini; (b) training of pediatric rheumatologists, survey results, Lauren Pachman and J. E. Levinson; number needed, length of training, content of training programs, impacting international rheumatology care, amount of time necessary for research training, standardization of programs, Abraham Gedalia, Joseph Levinson, Daniel Lovell, Bernhard Singsen, Charles Spencer.
Tape 12: defined goals of help from centers, institutions, and organizations, Merle McPherson (MCH) and Douglas Fenderson of National Institututes of Handicapped Research.
Tape 13: AF, Frederic McDuffie; AAP Rheumatology Section, Virgil Hanson; Council of Pediatric Rheumatology ARA, Lauren Pachmen; open discussion of pediatric rheumatology future.
Folder 57
Copy of NEW HORIZONS meeting program marked according to the contents of 7 audio cassette tapes of the proceedings. The seven audio tapes are stored at the back of this box.
Box 5
Folders 58 - 60
1984: continued - ARA/AHPA, Minneapolis (Dr. Brewer presented); ARA, Chicago; DOE/MCH, Washington, D.C.
Folders 61 - 70
1985: Arthritis Drug Guidelines Conference, Scottsdale, AZ; American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, San Antonio; Special Education Meeting, Houston (Dr. Brewer presented); XVI International Congress of Rheumatology, Sydney, Australia, includes a TS of Dr. Brewer's presentation; New Frontiers in Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium, Columbia Univ., NY; ARA, Anaheim, CA (Dr. Brewer presented and USSR delegates participated); NIH site visit, Washington, D.C.; AAP, San Antonio; ARA/AHPA, Chicago.
Folders 71-77
1986: Department of Health and Human Services national conference, Houston; ARA/AHPA, New Orleans (Dr. Brewer presented; see Series X, Box 2 for Dr. Brewer's 1986 ARA Founding Fellow Certificate); Scandinavian Congress of Rheumatology, Copenhagen (Dr. Brewer presented on JRA - file includes 30 slides and a script for his presentation); AAP, Washington, D.C.
1987: MCH conference, Washington, D.C.
Box 6
Folders 78 - 88
1987 continued: ILAR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, copy of Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia containing an interview with Dr. Brewer, a certificate of participation presented to Dr. Brewer, 40 slides and a script for his "Anti-inflammatory Talk"; ARA/AHPA, Washington, D.C., 14 slides and typescript of Drs. Brewer and Giannini's presentation; EULAR, Athens, Greece (Dr. Brewer was a speaker); Texas Pediatric Society, Houston; Whose Responsibility Is It? Managing Care at Home meeting, New Orleans; AAP, New Orleans; CCS Rheumatic Task Force Workshop, Austin; Practicing Pediatricians Conference, Honolulu; Family-Centered Health Care Conference, Oahu.
Folders 89 - 92
1988: Future Directions of Pediatric Rheumatology: A Consensus Conference, Arlington, VA; Steering Committee, School Children Dependent on Medical Technology, Boston; SPRANS Workshop, Minneapolis; Maxicare meeting, Los Angeles (see Series IV, Box 1, and Series V, Box 8, for additional Maxicare information).
Box 7
Folders 93 - 95
1988 continued: Carl M. Pearson Symposium, Rancho Mirage, CA, including correspondence, agenda, list of slides, slides and presentation script, transparencies, and two audio tapes of lectures by Dr. Brewer, "Medical Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Collagen Diseases in Adolescents" (Side A only, Side B is blank) and "Methods, Outcomes of Outpatient Coordinated Team Care of Teenagers with Rheumatic Diseases" (Side A plus /Side B).
Folders 96 - 97
40th Anniversary Conference of Southwest Foundations in Corpus Christi including TS "Preparing of Health Professionals: Challenge for the Future" by Andrew W. Nichols, M.D., M.P.H., Univ. of Arizona College of Medicine; Second Annual Conference for Caregivers of Technology Dependent and Chronically Ill Children, SLC.
Folders 98 - 104
ARA,
Houston, with USSR participants including correspondence, scientific program,
abstracts, publicity, script of presentation "Auranofin in JRA - Results of
the USA-USSR Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial," two 5" x 7" B/W photos
of Drs. Brewer
and Giannini with USSR representatives and Mimi Minkoff at Kelsey-Seybold
Foundation (see Photograph Collection for additional prints of these plus other
5" x 7" B/W photos of this group); Ambulatory Pediatric Assoc., annual meeting
with TS by Horowitz and Stein "Are HMOs a Myth or Panacea for Children?"; U.
S. Surgeon General's Conference in Washington, D.C., program, correspondence,
publicity and Dr. Brewer's
TS "Coordinated Community-Based Care Section Workshop" and speaker's
badge (Dr. Brewer received
the U. S. Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Award which is in Series I, Box
3); Texas Pediatric Society, Dallas, program; International Symposium on Pediatric
Rheumatology, London, program and registration form; Early Discussions in DMARD
Development, Washington, D.C., evaluation forms, roster, expenses.
Folders 105 - 107
AAP, San Francisco, program and registration; Community Health Team Care ... Conference, Austin, team training packet materials including brochures, forms, booklets, including Drs. Brewer and Levinson's "Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis and Management" (Item #44 on CV - See Series IX) and information on Dr. Magana's BCHC, El Paso.
Folders 108 - 111
1989: ACCH, Anaheim, CA, correspondence, program "Family Centered Care: making it a reality" and Dr. Brewer's itinerary; Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children review panel meeting, MCH, Bethesda, MD; ILAR, Rio de Janiero (Sept. 1723), program, registration, correspondence, script of Dr. Brewer's presentations "Hypermobility in Pediatric Practice" and "Critical Analysis of the Treatment with NSAIDs and DMARDs."
Box 8
Folders 112 - 114
1989 continued: ILAR, Rio de Janiero continued - brochures, abstracts, articles, presentation "Clinical aspects of JRA/spondyloarthropathy/reactive arthritis" with 8 slides and script, TS by Brewer, et al., "The Development of Classification Criteria for Children with JRA", 55 color slides with script "JRA lecture for Brazil" including slides of JRA patients Pam Stokes (see Series VI, Box 1, Folder 11 for additional slides and Series IX, Box 14 for 16mm film of this patient), Katherine Thomas, Robert Larson, Roscoe Ford, Jr., Sandra Erwin, Sherry Th??, C. Meyers, Pamela Reese.
Folders 115 - 116
Rheumatic Therapeutics: Revisited symposium, Phoenix, AZ, program, correspondence, certificate of completion, and 16 slides from Dr. Brewer's presentation; American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine annual meeting, San Antonio, program, correspondence, abstract and outline of Dr. Brewer's presentation concerning family-centered, community-based, coordinated care.
Folders 117 - 121
1990: 5th National Parent-to-Parent Conference, Tampa, FL, program, registration, correspondence, newsletters, brochures; Health Education Symposium, Alexandria, VA, correspondence, publicity, MCH publication "Coordination of Health and Education Services and Collaboration Between Health and Education Sectors in Service System Development," conference materials, expenses; 25th ACCH Conference, Washington, D.C., program, resource material brochure, conference packet; New Directions in Education Conference, College Station, TX, correspondence, agenda, expenses.
Folders 122 - 126
1991: MCH/SPRANS workshop, San Francisco; Texas Network of Medically Fragile and Chronically Ill Children, Corpus Christi: ACCH, Minneapolis; AHPA, State of the Art in Fibromyalgia, Boston, scientific programs, scientific abstracts.
Folder 127
1996: ACR 60th National Scientific Meeting, Orlando, scientific program with Dr. Brewer honored as a Master of Rheumatology, "Kelsey-Seybold Foundation Health Bulletin" with the announcement of this honor on page 11.