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STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN NEW ENGLAND IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE
June 11, 2004
Woodstock Inn
Fourteen The Green
Woodstock, VT 059091
Conference Info
Agenda
Proceedings & Presentations
June 11, 2004
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Registration Fee: $55Woodstock Inn
Fourteen The Green
Woodstock, VT 059091
8:30am |
Welcome
Bertram Yaffe, Chair, NECON
Charles C. Tretter,
Executive Director, New England Governors' Conference, Inc. |
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8:45am |
Overview of Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Overweight and Obesity in New England
Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, Chair, Department of Nutrition, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health |
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9:15am |
Strategic Plan Implementation Breakout Sessions
Facilitator:
David L. Katz, MD, MPH,
FACPM, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health & Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Director, Yale Prevention Research Center
School Nutrition and Physical Activity
Facilitator:
William H. Potts-Datema, MS, Director, Partnerships for Children's Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Worksite Health Promotion
Food and the Social Environment
Facilitators:
S. Bryn Austin, ScD, Instructor in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Div. of Adolescent Medicine
Serena Domolky, JD, MPH, Dept. of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
The Built Environment
Facilitator:
Phil Troped, MS, PhD, Research Associate, Harvard School of Public Health
Mass Media
Facilitator:
Sari Kalin, Program Coordinator,
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Economics
Data for Action
Facilitators:
Solomon Mezgebu, MSc, Evaluator/Epidemiologist II, Nutrition & Physical
Activity Unit, MA DPH
Maria Bettencourt, MPH, LDN, Director, Nutrition & Physical Activity, MA DPH
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10:15am |
Networking Break |
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10:30am |
Panel of Regional Health Officers: New England Addresses the Obesity Epidemic
- Connecticut
Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell, MPH, Director, Division of Health Education, Management and Surveillance
- Maine
Barbara A. Leonard, Director, Division of Community Health, Bureau of Health, Maine Department of Human Services
- Massachusetts
Sally Fogerty, BSN, MEd, Asst. Commissioner and Director of the Center for Health Services, MA Department of Public Health
- New Hampshire
Mary Ann Cooney, RN, MS, Director, Office of Community and Public Health, NH DHHS
- Rhode Island
Ann Kelsey Thacher, MS, Chief, Office of Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention, RI Department of Health
- Vermont
Paul E. Jarris, MD, MBA, Vermont Commissioner of Health
Moderator:
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health & Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Director, Yale Prevention Research Center
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12:30 noon |
Networking Lunch
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1:15pm |
Greetings from Hon. James H. Douglas, Governor of Vermont, Chair, New England Governors ConferenceIntroduction:
Paul E. Jarris, MD, MBA, Vermont Commissioner of Health
Keynote Address: The Nation's Response to the Challenge of Overweight
Capt. Van S. Hubbard, MD, PhD, Director, National Institutes of Health Division of Nutrition Research Coordination; Chief, Nutritional
Sciences Branch, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health Introduction:
Capt. Michael
Milner, MMS, PA-C, Regional Health Administrator, US DHHS/OPHS |
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2:00pm |
Travel Corridors and Destinations: Promises in the Environment for Physical Activity
Anne Lusk, PhD, Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health |
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2:30pm |
Breakout Sessions Reconvene |
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3:15pm |
Where Do We Go from Here?
Reports from Breakout Sessions Panel 1
- Rep. Sean Faircloth, Maine State Legislature
- Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Health Care, MA State Legislature
- Peg Harrington, Area Manager - Outreach, American Diabetes Association
- David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health & Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Director, Yale Prevention Research Center
Moderator:
Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health |
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4:30pm |
Closing Remarks and Next Steps
Bertram A. Yaffe, Chair, NECON |
Conference developed with the participation of New England Governors' Conference, Inc., state agencies of
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services US DHHS –
Region I.
DRAFT 6/9/04
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