The Health Literacy Annual Research Conference is an interdisciplinary meeting for investigators dedicated to health literacy research, co-funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The themes of this year's conference will be health disparites and patient safety.

The HARC, coordinated with the assistance of the Health Literacy Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine, will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, MD on October 18-19, 2010. To find out more about the conference, visit: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/healthliteracyconference/.

You can register for the conference at http://www.bumc.bu.edu/healthliteracyconference/registration-and-lodging/.

Abstracts for presentations are due June 11, 2010. To submit an abstract, go to: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/healthliteracyconference/abstract-submission-guidelines/.