2009 Conference Keynote Speakers

 

"Improving Public Health through

Leadership and Knowledge"

 

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Michael McGeehin, PhD, MSPH

 

"Climate Change: The Public Health Response"

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:00pm

 

Director, Division of Environmental Hazards & Health Effects
National Center for Environmental Health
Coordinating Center for Environmental Health & Injury Prevention

 

Michael McGeehin, Ph.D., is Director, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects (EHHE), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His division includes the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, CDC’s Asthma Control Program, the Harmful Algal Bloom Surveillance Project, and the Nuclear Weapons Facility Dose-Reconstruction Program.
Prior to being director of EHHE, Dr. McGeehin was chief of the Health Studies Branch (HSB), NCEH. During his tenure, HSB staff conducted investigations on a wide variety of environmental problems including the 1995 Chicago heat wave, children’s deaths in Haiti from diethylene glycol poisoning, children’s lead poisoning and pesticide exposure along the U.S.-Mexico border, and Pfiesteria outbreaks along the southeastern U.S., among others. Before joining NCEH, Dr. McGeehin was chief of the Health Investigations Branch, Division of Health Studies, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and was ATSDR’s Senior Regional Representative in Denver. He began his career with CDC in 1978 in the Center for Prevention Services.
Dr. McGeehin is CDC’s point person for global climate change. He served as co-chair of the health sector on the U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change. He also represents Natural Hazards Research, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Interagency Working Group on Environmental Indicators, National Water Quality Assessment Advisory Council, National Drinking Water Advisory Council, ECOS Environmental Health Forum, and the interagency committee for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) report on the environment, among others.
Dr. McGeehin has authored, or co-authored, articles on numerous environmental health topics including bladder cancer and disinfection by-product (DBP) exposure, heat wave morbidity, heat wave response plans, health effects of global climate change, childhood lead poisoning, and environmental health surveillance. In 1989, he received his M.P.H. from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. in environmental health science from Colorado State University in 1992.

 

 

Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN

 

"A Vision for National Public Health Accreditation:

Latest News from the Public Health Accreditation Board"

Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:45am

 

President and Chief Executive Officer,

Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)

 

Kaye Bender, RN, PhD, FAAN, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Health Accreditation Board. Prior to this appointment, she was Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing, Dean and Professor of the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing for six years. She also served as Deputy State Health Officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health for 5 years and Chief of Staff and Director of Public Health Nursing for the Mississippi State Department of Health for 10 years. She began her career as a public health nurse in 1977 and held many public health staff and supervisors positions in the local public health system in Mississippi prior to working at the state level.

Dr. Bender has a BSN from the University of Mississippi; a MS in Community Health Nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a PhD in Clinical Health Sciences from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is a graduate of the Public Health Leadership Institute. She is currently chair of the Public Health Leadership Society and serves on the Education Board of the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Bender has served on several local, state, and national public health and nursing committees and has held several offices in public health and nursing organizations. She is a past-President of ASTDN; past-Chair of the American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section; and is a former chair of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Management Committee. She also served on two Institute of Medicine Study Committees, “The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century” and “Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?”, and on one IOM subcommittee “The Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System”.

 

 

Captain Matthew McKenna, MD, MPH

 

"Effective Tobacco Control: Opportunities and Challenges"

Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 12:00pm

 

Director, Office on Smoking and Health,

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

 

Captain Matthew T. McKenna is a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health service. He is the Director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the CDC. He joined CDC in 1989 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control. He has held progressively more responsible positions at CDC in the areas of Cancer, Tuberculosis and HIV Surveillance. He received his M.D. from Emory University and his M.P.H. from the University of Pittsburgh. He is board certified in Family Medicine as well as General Preventive Medicine and Public Health and is a Fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine. Matt has authored or co-authored numerous publications on a wide array of topics including peripheral vascular disease, HIV transmission, drug resistant tuberculosis, cervical cancer screening and health metrics such as the disability-adjusted life year. He is married and has two children.

 

 

Michelle Ann Larkin, JD, MS, RN

 

"The Bridge to a Healthier America"

Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:00pm

 

Team Director and Senior Program Officer,

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

As Senior Program Officer, Michelle Ann Larkin, J.D., M.S., R.N. leads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Team to improve the performance of the federal, state and local public health systems; build the evidence for what works to improve the quality and effectiveness of public health practice and policy; and advocate for the use of law and policy to improve health. Larkin leads a major initiative to build the field of public health law through three integrated strategies: building the evidence for effective public health laws and policies; enhancing the public health infrastructure to support public health practitioners and their legal counsel; and increase the support for, demand for and use of law by policy-makers, academics and professionals in fields that impact health.
She is also a member of the Quality/Equality Team which helps communities improve the quality of health care of their citizens by aligning those who give care, get care and pay for care. She serves as Executive Editor for Charting Nursings’ Future. She is also member of the American Public Health Association, the American Bar Association and the New Jersey Bar. Prior to joining the Foundation, Larkin worked as a policy analyst at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a legislative fellow for the U.S. Senate. She previously worked as an oncology nurse.
Larkin received a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, an M.S. in nursing/health policy from the University of Maryland and a B.S.N. from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

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