9:00   Keynote Address: Framing the Dialogue to Eliminate the Disparities in Health

Nathan Stinson, Jr., Ph.D., M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, Department of Health and Human Services
Introduction: Albert K. Yee, M.D., M.P.H., Regional Health Administrator, Region I

9:30   Tales From the Trenches

Interlocutor: Howard Koh, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., Commissioner, MA DPH
Urban: Keith Hartgrove, Communications Teacher, Madison Park HS; The Angry Heart
Rural: N. Burgess Record, M.D., F.A.C.P., Medical Director, Western ME Center for Heart Health

10:15   Presentation of NECON/American Heart Association/DuPont
             Regional Recognition Awards

Richard G. Williamson, Vice President, Cardiovascular Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb
David A. Chatel, Sr. VP, Health Marketing, Community Programs and Advocacy, AHA, NE Affiliate

10:45   Break

11:00   Workshop Sessions: Implementing NECON Recommendations
             and Achieving 2010 Objectives

• Obesity
  Walter C. Willett, MD, Dr. PH, Chair, Dept. of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
   
• Cancer
  Judy Blei, Lobbyist, Alliance for a Healthy Connecticut
  Steve Detoy, Director, Government and Public Affairs, Rhode Island Medical Society
  Megan D. Hannan,Director of Govt. Relations & Advocacy, American Cancer Society
  Christopher F. Koller, CEO, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island
  Laurie Storey-Manseau, Immediate Past Chair, ACS New England Division
  Moderator: Judith C. Meredith, Consultant with Health Care for All and Community Catalyst, acting as Coordinator of the Alliance for a Healthy New England
   
• Mental Health
  Kevin W. Concannon, Commissioner, ME Dept. of Human Services
  Thomas Kirk, Jr., Commissioner, CT Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services
  A. Kathryn Power, Director, RI Department of MHRH
  Honorable John S. Martinez, State Representative, Connecticut
  Moderator: Joseph Bevilacqua, Ph.D.
   
• Women's Health
  Jacqueline P. Fields, Ph.D, Sr. Research Scientist, Wellesley College Ctr for Research on Women
  Janice Mirabassi, Women's Health, Mass. Dept. of Public Health
  Sharon Marable, M.D., M.P.H., Asst. Med. Dir., RI DOH, Division of Disease Prevention & Control
  Barbara Leonard, Director, Division of Community Health, Maine Bureau of Health
  Lisa Bujno, Prenatal/Adolescent Program Chief, Bureau of Maternal & Child Health, NH DHHS
  Moderator: Laurie L. Robinson, Women's Health Coordinator, Region I, US DHHS
   
• HIV/AIDS
  James P. Campbell, National Chair, National Assn., HIV Over 50
  Cynthia Cannon Poindexter, M.S.W., Ph.D., Asst. Professor, BU School of Social Work
  Shirley Royster
  Moderator: Donna Gallagher, R.N.C., M.S., A.N.P.,.F.A.A.N., Director, NE AIDS Education & Training Ctr.
   
• Eliminating Disparities in Health Care
  Albert K. Yee, M.D., M.P.H., Regional Health Administrator, Region I
  Marie M. Spivey, R.N., M.P.A., CEO, The Learning Corridor; Chair, CT Advisory Commission on Multicultural Health
  William D. Walker, Director, Office of Minority Health, NH DHHS
  Jazmin Miranda Smith, Executive Director, NH Minority Health Coalition
  Carl Toney, P.A., Asst. Professor, College of Health, University of New England
  Moderator: Janet L. Scott-Harris, Program Director of Minority Health, US DHHS/Office of Minority Health, Region One

12:30   Lunch

Healthy People: Twenty Years Later: What Have We Done? What Have We Learned? What Must We Do?

Randolph F. Wykoff, M.D., M.P.H., T.M., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health; Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, US DHHS
Introduction: Patricia A. Nolan, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Health, RI Department of Health

2:00   A Conversation on Creating Social Capital Through Healthy Communities