Organized in conjunction with CAMI's annual meeting, the conference is appropriate for mental health service consumers, their families and anyone who works with people who have mental illness, abuse substances or both. Conference speakers are experts in the field and represent caregivers, academicians, professionals and agency and program administrators. The keynote speaker is Donald Vereen, M.D., the medical director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In addition, Albert Solnit, M.D., commissioner, and Thomas Kirk, Ph.D, deputy commissioner, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, will speak. Consumers are admitted without charge.
Attendance there is restricted to voting members of the organization.
Founded in 1961, the Health Center pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service.