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Keynote Address: Public Policy and Child Health
Donna E. Shalala, PhD
Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Miami
Donna E. Shalala, PhD, has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. A leading scholar on the political economy of state and local governments, she has held tenured professorships at Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987 and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993.
In 1993 President Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history. At the beginning of her tenure, HHS had a budget of nearly $600 billion, which included a wide variety of programs including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Care and Head Start, Welfare, the Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of the country's first Peace Corp volunteers, she served in Iran from 1962 to 1964.
As HHS Secretary, she directed the welfare reform process, made health insurance available to an estimated 3.3 million children through the approval of all State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), raised child immunization rates to the highest levels in history, led major reforms of the FDA's drug approval process and food safety system, revitalized the National Institutes of Health, and directed a major management and policy reform of Medicare. At the end of her tenure as HHS Secretary, The Washington Post described her as "one of the most successful government managers of modern times."
She is a Director of Gannett Co., Inc., UnitedHealth Group, Inc., and the Lennar Corporation. She also serves as a Trustee of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She was the chair with Sen Bob Dole of The Presidents Commission on the Care of America's Returning Wounded Warriors in July, 2007.
President Shalala has more than three dozen honorary degrees and a host of other honors, including the 1992 National Public Service Award, the 1994 Glamour magazine Woman of the Year Award, and in 2005 was named one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations; National Academy of Education; the National Academy of Public Administration; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the National Academy of Social Insurance; the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
T O P I C A L P R E S E N T A T I O N S
School and Community Interventions in Child Health Psychology
Marian L. Fitzgibbon, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Administration
Associate Director, Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3), Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Director, Section of Health Promotion Research, Department of Medicine
Director, Health Promotion Research Program, Institute for Health Research and Policy
Marian L. Fitzgibbon, PhD, has focused primarily on health risk reduction interventions in minority and underserved populations. She has received consistent federal funding through NIH for more than a decade and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer on a number of journals, including Health Psychology, The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Journal of Public Health, The Journal of The American Medical Association, and Ethnicity and Disease. Dr. Fitzgibbon is a member of the NIH Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section and has served on a number of NIH Special Emphasis Panels.
Evidence Based Assessments in Pediatric Psychology - With Panel Discussion
Lindsey L. Cohen, PhD
Associate Director of Clinical Training
Clinic Director
Georgia State University
Lindsey L Cohen, PhD, has focused primarily on children's medical pain. For example, he is conducting a National Institutes of Health funded study of an interactive computer training program aimed at teaching preschoolers and parents pain management skills for immunizations. His Mayday Fund supported project is examining distraction for immunization acute medical pain. All of his projects take a broad perspective in examining the various factors (e.g., temperament, parent-child interactions) that influence pain and coping. Lindsey also has chaired the Division 54 Task Force on Evidence-Based Assessment in Pediatric Psychology, and will provide an overview of issues involved in identifying and evaluating assessment tools for child health research. His presentation will be in conjunction with several Task Force Workgroup Chairs who will offer their views on the process of assessment in child health.
Evaluating and Treating Trauma in Pediatric Settings
Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD
Psychologist, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD is a leading expert in the area of traumatic stress in pediatric populations. Her research has focused on medically-related traumatic stress, and parent and child reactions to injury and medical emergency. She is widely published in the area of Posttraumatic stress in relation to child injury and mental health aspects of emergency medical services for children.
Motivational Interviewing: Applications to Child Health Populations
Ken Resnicow, PhD
Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ken Resnicow, PhD, has focused his research interest on the design and evaluation of health promotion programs for special populations, particularly cardiovascular and cancer prevention interventions for African Americans; understanding the relationship between ethnicity and health behaviors; school-based health promotion programs; substance use prevention and harm reduction and motivational interviewing for chronic disease prevention. Current studies include: Health Body Healthy Spirit, an NHLBI funded intervention to increase physical activity, fruits, and vegetables among African Americans recruited through Black churches using motivational interviewing; GO GIRLS, an NHLBI funded study to develop an obesity prevention program for overweight African American females; Body and Soul, an NIH/ACS collaboration to disseminate proven cancer control interventions using lay health advisors; and a FOGARTY/NIH study to develop smoking prevention programs for South African Youth.
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