Presentations

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• Drexel University School of Public Health, symposium for Cover the Uninsured Week, May 3rd, 2006, Marcia L. Comstock, MD MPH, Carol A. Staubach, MPH "Health Care Coverage: Different Problems, Different Solutions, Everyone's Issue"
  
• Healthy People, Healthy Communities: A Summit on Obesity, Florida on the Move, September 30, 2005: Marcia L Comstock, MD MPH, "Let's Recreate a Sense of Community to Tackle Healthcare Challenges!"
  
• Consumer-Directed Health Conference sponsored by Employee Benefit Professionals Association, June 7, 2005
  • Marcia L. Comstock, MD, MPH, & Jon R. Comola, "Consumerism in Healthcare: The Next "Best" Thing?"
  • Marcia L. Comstock, MD, MPH, & Jon R. Comola, "Consumerism in Healthcare: Who Needs to Change and How Do We Make it Happen"
    
• Health by Design, sponsored by Ball State University, March 17, 2005 Marcia L. Comstock, MD, MPH, "A National Perspective on Local Strategies"
  
• Clinical Directors' Webcast, March 30, 2005, Marcia L. Comstock, MD MPH & Jon R. Comola, "Community Leaders' Blueprint for Health Policy"
  
• Foundation for American Health Care Leadership: "Promoting and Enabling Healthy Choices: Linking the Desire for Health with the Decisions & Tools that Support Health" December 6-8, 2-004
  • Ian Morrison "The Coming Tsunami: The Obesity Epidemic and Chronic Care"
  • John Peters, PhD "What Can We Learn From The Commercial Sector About Promoting Healthy Lifestyles?"
  • Tommy Hutchinson "The Role of the Internet in Social Change"
  • Naj Wikoff "The Role of the Arts in Social Change"
  • Bob Levy "The Professor Garfield Foundation"
  • James O. Prochaska, PhD "High Impact Tools for Health Promotion"
  • Brock Leach "Capturing Growth at the Intersection"
  • Wolf Kirsten "Public and Private Sector Models from Abroad"
  • Thomas E. Kottke, MD MSPH "CardioVision 2020: A Community Responds to the Lifestyle Syndrome"
  • Laura Simonds, MS M. Ed "America on the Move: The Partnership to Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living"
  • Agnes Hinton, DrPH RD "The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach"
  • Jerry Reeves, MD "Giving Patients a Voice: Empowering Better Health
  • Ron Bachman "Medical Consumerism and Trends in Consumer-Directed Healthcare
  • J. Gregory Carroll, PhD "Shared Decision-Making" (slides copyrighted by the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication. These excerpts have been provided with the Institute’s permission.)
  • Suzanne Mintz "National Family Caregivers Association"
  • Milt Hammerly, MD "Person-Centered Care: THE Organizing Principle for Healthcare"
  
  
• Foundation for American Health Care Leadership: "What is the Economic Value of Health & Healthcare?" June 17-18, 2004
  • Ian Morrison "The Value of Healthcare: Setting the Stage--Looking to the Future"
  • Kevin Murphy, PhD "The Economic Value of Increased Longevity and Medical Research"
  • Kenneth Kizer, MD MPH "Achieving Value in Healthcare--Some Experiential Observations"
  • John E Wennberg, MD MPH "Developing New Financing and Care Delivery Models: How Should Your Sector Respond?"
  • John R Lumpkin, MD MPH "He Who Has Health Has Hope; He Who Has Hope Has Everything; The Value Proposition For Health"