Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Program Agenda:

• 8:30am - Program opens with Meridian President & CEO, Ambassador Stuart Holliday, offering welcome and introductory remarks.
  
  
• 8:35am - Moderator Ms. Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, shares event overview and outlines half-day program.
  
  
• 8:45am–9:30am - Dr. James Hospedales, Senior Advisor, Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases, Pan-American Health Organization, provides remarks to frame the discussion of chronic disease and prevention. Audience Q&A to follow.
  
  
• 9:30am-9:45am - Exercise break.
  
  
• 9:45am-10:45am - Mr. John Harris, Chief Well-Being Officer and Vice President Innovations, Healthways, and Ms. Katie Bell, Partner, Gallup Healthcare Group, to present on the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Audience Q&A to follow.
  
  
• 10:45am-11:00am - Stretch and outdoor break.
  
  
• 11:00am-12:30pm - Panel session on advocacy, education, and prevention efforts around chronic diseases. Audience Q&A to follow.
  Panel includes:
  • Dr. Lorien Abroms, Public Health Communication & Marketing, George Washington University
  • Dr. Arun Chockalingam, Director, Office of Global Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Ms. Paulina N. Duker, Managing Director, Scientific and Medical Division, American Diabetes Association
  • Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Deputy Director, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Program.
  • Ms. Susan Dentzer, Moderator
  
  
  
• 12:30pm - Lunch served in Dining Room.
  
  
• 12:45pm - Ms. Susan Dentzer provides wrap-up and look ahead to September’s UN High-Level Summit on NCDs. Open to audience discussion.
  
  
• 1:30pm - Program concludes.