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AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellowship Tentative Agenda - Dec. 5-9, 2010
 Sunday, Dec. 5
Drawing Room (hotel dining room) | | 6:30 p.m. | AHCJ Welcome - Len Bruzzese, AHCJ executive director
- Ev Ruch-Graham, AHCJ training coordinator
| | 7 p.m. | Media Relations at CDC - Shelly Diaz, Public Affairs Specialist
- Kristen Nordlund, Public Affairs Specialist
- Von Roebuck, Senior Public Affairs Specialist
| | 7:30 p.m. | Opening Dinner | Monday, Dec. 6
CDC Building 19, Distance Learning Auditorium | | 9-9:15 a.m. | Welcome - Donna Garland, associate director for communication
| | 9:15-10:15 a.m. | Investigating disease outbreaks: CDC’s disease detectives - Doug Hamilton, M.D., M.P.H., director, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Program
| | 10:15-10:30 a.m. | Break | | 10:30-11:45 a.m. | CDC’s role in investigating foodborne disease outbreaks - Robert Tauxe, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Disease
| | 11:45-1 p.m. | Lunch | | 1–2:15 p.m. | Genomics - Muin Khoury, M.D., Ph.D., director, Office of Public Health Genomics
| | 2:15-2:30 p.m. | Break | | 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Obesity - Heidi Blanck, director, Obesity Prevention and Control Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
| | 3:45-4:15 p.m. | CDC director - Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.
| | 4:15 p.m. | End of day | Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 CDC Building 19 Distance Learning Auditorium | | 9-10:15 a.m. | Chronic disease prevention - Ursula E. Bauer, Ph.D., M.P.H., director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
| | 10:15–10:30 a.m. | Break | | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Diabetes - Ann Albright, Ph.D., R.D., director, Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
| | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Using CDC data: BRFSS - Lina Balluz, M.P.H., Sc.D., acting director, Division of Behavior Surveillance, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
| | 12:30 p.m.–1:15 p.m. | Lunch | | 1:15-2:15 p.m. | Vaccine-preventable diseases: CDC’s immunization efforts - Lance Rodewald, M.D., director, Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
| | 2:15–3:15 p.m. | Influenza - Anne Schuchat, M.D., director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
| | 3:15-3:20 p.m. | Walk to CDC Emergency Operations Center | | 3:20-3:40 p.m. | State & local readiness and emergency preparedness - Ann O’Connor, M.P.A., associate director for policy, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
| | 3:45–415 p.m. | Emergency Operations Center tour | | 4:15 p.m. | End of day
(Midwest fellows depart for airport) | | 7:30 p.m. | Meet ‘n greet with AHCJ’s Atlanta Chapter (The Club Room, hotel bar) | Wednesday, Dec. 8
CDC Building 19 Rooms 245/246 | | 9-10 a.m. | Global health/ Haiti response - Jordan W. Tappero, M.D., M.P.H., director, Health System Reconstruction Office, Center for Global Health
| | 10-11 a.m. | Hepatitis - John Ward, M.D., director - Viral Hepatitis Program, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
| | 11-11:15 a.m. | Break | | 11:15-12:15 p.m. | Antibiotic resistance - Lauri Hicks, D.O., medical director, Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work Program
| | 12:15-1:15 p.m. | Lunch | | 1:15–2:15 p.m. | Patient safety / HAIs - Mike Bell, M.D., associate director for infection control, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
| | 2:15 -4 p.m. | Laboratory tours (no cameras) | | 4 p.m. | End of day | Thursday, Dec. 9
Chamblee Campus 106 C | | 7:45 a.m. | Meet in lobby – shuttle to Chamblee campus | | 8:45-9 a.m. | Welcome - Robin Ikeda, M.D., M.P.H., director, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health
| | 9-10 a.m. | Climate change - Jeremy Hess, M.D., M.P.H., guest researcher, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health
| | 10-10:15 a.m. | Break | | 10:15-11:15 | Motor vehicle safety - Ann Dellinger, Ph.D., M.P.H., team leader, Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Team, National Center for Injury Prevention & Control
| | 11:15-12:15 p.m. | Bed bugs | | 12:15-1 p.m. | Lunch | | 1-2 p.m. | Autism - John Baio, behavioral scientist, Developmental Disabilities Branch, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
| | 2-3 p.m. | Chemicals in the environment | | 3-4:30 p.m. | Laboratory tours | | 4:30 p.m. | End of day | | 5 p.m. | Fellowship wrap-up (The Club Room, hotel bar) |
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