Newsletter
Volume 28 | 2005 | Number 2
ABA 3rd International Conference in Beijing, China
Maria E. Malott, Ph.D.
The planning of ABA’s 3rd international conference is well under way. We hope you can participate in this historic event for the dissemination of behavior analysis in China. Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China and center for politics, education, culture, and science, will be the site of our conference on November 26-27, 2005.
Figure 1. President Ming Bai
Our Chinese host is the LiYuan Hospital of the Tongji School of Medicine, Hua Zhong University of Science & Technology. The hospital was established in 1979 and currently has 500 beds with 616 employees. Seven of the hospital’s doctors receive funding from the State Department for their research and practice. Within the hospital, there are 27 clinics and five research centers, including a nationally recognized Autism Research and Intervention Center. The LiYuan Hospital has been recognized as one of the top ten hospitals in Hubei Province. Figure 1 shows Ming Bai, President of LiYuan Hospital.
We thank President Ming Bai, LiYuan Hospital, and Dan Li for their cooperation and support. As well, we would like to recognize the invaluable assistance of Dr. Joseph Morrow and Brenda Terzich, co-founders of Applied Behavior Consultants (ABC), and Dr. Joyce Tu, from ABC China. ABC is the first applied behavior analysis company opening three schools in China.
We have program offerings on a variety of topics in behavior analysis, with 90 events from 200 participants representing 24 countries. The conference will be held in a five star hotel with very comfortable accommodations, the Kerry Centre, located in Beijing’s financial and diplomatic district. The Kerry Centre is close to several historical and cultural sites. (See www.abainternational.org/Beijing for more details.)
We hope that you not only attend the conference, but also take the opportunity to experience some of China’s great cultural and historical sites. Our tour operator, China Discoveries, is offering one to four day tours of Beijing, the Great Wall of China and the Ming Tombs, the City of Xi’an and the famous Terra Cotta Warriors, and Tibet at a special discount to conference attendees.
If you are interested in attending the conference and need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the ABA office at (269) 492-9314, or at mail@abainternational.org. The ABA Web site provides details about the conference program, travel and visa requirements, and you can also register there for the conference.
I hope to see you in Beijing!