Health Action 2007: Tentative Conference Agenda

as of January 18, 2007
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Wednesday, January 24
7:00pm-9:00pm	Registration Opens
7:00pm-10:00pm	Informal Reception
8:00pm-9:30pm	FILM: A Closer Walk (A film about AIDS in the world. A story about the way the world is.)

Thursday, January 25
8:00am-5:00pm	Registration
8:00am-9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am	Opening Plenary Senator Barack Obama (IL) Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University
10:45am-12:15pm	Workshops I
12:30pm-2:30pm	Lunch: "When An Apple a Day Isn't Enough" National Essay Contest Grand-Prize Winners Senator Gordon Smith (OR)
2:45-3:45pm	Plenary: Senator Sherrod Brown (OH)
4:00pm-5:30pm	Workshops II
5:45pm-6:30pm	Special Session
8:00pm-11:00pm	Special Cabaret Performance: The Capitol Steps

Friday, January 26, 2007

8:00am-9:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am-5:00pm	Registration
9:00am-10:30am	PLENARY: SCHIP & Medicaid Senator Edward Kennedy (MA) Ron Pollack David Smith, GMMB
10:45am-12:15am	Workshops III
12:30pm-2:15pm	Luncheon: Consumer Health Advocate of the Year Awards
2:30pm-3:45pm	Plenary: Red Flags and Red Herrings: The Outlook for Medicare Bruce Vladeck, Interim President, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Tricia Neuman, Kaiser Family Foundation
4:00pm-5:30pm	Workshops IV
5:45pm-6:45pm	Special Plenary: Global Health
8:00pm-11:00pm	Dance & Dessert Party

Saturday, January 27, 2007

8:00am-9:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:30am-2:00pm	UPS Booth
9:00am-9:45am	Plenary: Hurting Real People: The TennCare Example Collateral Damage documentary Julie Winokur, Talking Eyes Media
9:45am-10:30am	Plenary: The Right Stuff: Words that Work for Health Care Celinda Lake, Lake Research Partners (by video) David Mermin, Lake Research Partners
10:45am-12:15pm	Workshops V
12:30pm-2:30pm	Luncheon: Closing Plenary The Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, National Council of Churches
2:30pm	Conference Ends