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18th Annual
Art & Science of
Health Promotion Conference KEYNOTES Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
Formerly, Dr. Tuckson served as Senior Vice President, Professional Standards, for the American Medical Association (AMA). He is former President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles; has served as Senior Vice President for Programs of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; and is a former Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia. Dr. Tuckson is an active member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served as the Chairperson of its Quality Chasm Summit Committee and a member on their Committee on the Consequences of the Uninsured. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. Additionally, he recently served as a Commissioner, Certification Commission on Health Information Technology (CCHIT); and is currently a member of the Performance Measurement Workgroup, Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA); and the Quality Workgroup, American Health Information Community (AHIC). Dr. Tuckson has also held other federal appointments, including cabinet level advisory committees on health reform, infant mortality, children’s health, violence, and radiation testing.
Normally one reporting the stories from the Middle East, Bob Woodruff suddenly and violently became the story. In January of 2006, while reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security forces, Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle near Taji, Iraq. The long and arduous journey back included numerous surgeries and months of rehabilitation. In this presentation, based on his best-selling memoir In An Instant, Woodruff recounts the events preceding and following this life-changing event, how it completely altered his perspective on career and family, how he coped and overcame these circumstances, and what audiences can learn to recover from shattering events in their own lives.
Ronald M. Davis, MD, President of the American Medical Association, is a preventive medicine physician and a passionate advocate for doctors, patients, and public health. Because of his wide-ranging experience in medicine and population health, Dr. Davis speaks often and with authority on such issues as tobacco use, obesity, media violence, and dietary supplements. He has served as director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he did his residency in preventive medicine and his training in epidemiology. He also has served as chief medical officer for the Michigan Department of Public Health, and as a member and chair of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Davis currently leads the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Dr. Davis has deep roots in organized medicine. He chaired the AMA's Medical Student Section and was the first resident physician member of the AMA Board of Trustees. More recently, he chaired the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health, after which he was elected again to the AMA Board of Trustees. He has served as one of the AMA’s appointees on the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission. An adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Dr. Davis has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He was the founding editor of the journal Tobacco Control, and was the North American editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
As arguably the most dominant tennis player to ever step foot on the courts, Martina Navratilova's career spanned four decades and contained an astonishing 59 Grand Slam crowns. Her career was filled with a record 167 singles and 178 doubles tournament wins, but she will always be best known for her play on the grass courts of Wimbledon. Her magnificent reign at the All-England Club saw a record 9 singles titles, including a dominating six championships in a row from 1982 to 1987. Over the years, Martina has received numerous accolades, including “Tour Player of the Year” (7 times), Associated Press' “Female Athlete of the Year,” and was listed on Sports Illustrated's “Top 40 Athletes of All-Time” for her overall contributions to the world of athletics. In 2000, Navratilova was honored by being inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame as the “game's most prolific winner.” After her 2000 induction, Navratilova continued to play and win on the WTA Tour through October 2006, when she retired just months shy of her fiftieth birthday after winning the U.S. Open mixed doubles with Bob Bryan.
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graduate of Howard University, Georgetown University School of
Bob
Woodruff
Dick
Vitale
Kjell A.
Nordström, PhD
Ronald M. Davis, MD
Martina
Navratilova