The National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) initiative is a collaborative effort of national, state and community organizations committed to ensuring that all adults with decision-making capacity in the United States have the information and opportunity to communicate and document their health care decisions.

This teleconference will release a national survey of public health directors regarding climate change readiness in local communities. Climate change is a concern to most local public health directors but few have resources to tackle the problem, according to the national survey conducted by National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and George Mason University.

The conference will examine the past, present and future of Medicare, with keynote addresses from Peter Orszag, PhD, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and a former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. The conference will be web cast live at www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts, on the day of the event.