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CORNELL UNIVERSITY Health Care Symposium
February 27 - March 1, 2012
Sick in America Series Event Schedule
Keynote Address
The Link between Physicianship and the Evolution of Health care
Monday February 27th
132 Goldwin Smith (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium)
6:00PM-7:30PM
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Herbert Pardes, M.D., is the current President and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and is nationally recognized for his broad expertise in education, research, clinical care, mental health and health policy. A noted psychiatrist, Dr. Pardes served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health, president of the American Psychiatric Association, and U.S. Assistant Surgeon General during the Carter and Reagan administrations. Dr. Pardes has been appointed to serve on commissions related to health policy by Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, including the Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry and the Commission on Systemic Interoperability. He has also served as Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
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1 in 8: Prematurity and Birth Defects in the U.S.
Tuesday February 28th
165 McGraw
6:00PM-7:30PM
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Patrick Stover, Ph.D., is an award winning professor and the division director of the Cornell University Department of Nutritional Sciences. His current research focuses on the biochemical, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between the B-vitamin folate and human pathologies such as neural tube defects, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Dr. Stover is also a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards for the Annual Review of Nutrition, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and The Journal of Biological Chemistry. His academic achievements include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President William Jefferson Clinton, and the ERL Stokstad Award in Nutritional Biochemistry from the American Society for Nutritional Sciences. |
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Christine Olson, Ph.D., R.D., is a professor in the Cornell University Department of Nutritional Sciences, and she has spent her career developing effective interventions to address the nutritional concerns of women, infants, and children. Her research group's current project is using electronic communication technology to help pregnant and postpartum women develop and maintain behaviors that promote healthy body weights. She was also involved in the initial development of the questions used in the Current Population Survey assessing the food security statues of U.S. households. For 30 years she has been involved in extension-outreach programs with Cornell Cooperative Extension. |
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Monica Daniel, C.N.M, M.S., is a Certified Nurse Midwife, and received a BS in nutrition from Cornell in 1983 before earning a BS in Nursing from Creighton University and MS in Midwifery from the University of Minnesota. Over the course of her career she has spent time working as an RN , both in obstetrics at Tompkins County Community Hospital and in high risk prenatal home in Minneapolis. For a year she volunteered as a midwife in Saint Lucia, an upon returning to the U.S directed the Florida West Coast Birthing Center. Here in the Ithaca area she has directed the September Hill Birth Center at Schuyler Hospital, taught midwifery at the Frontier School of Nursing and Midwifery, and started a private home birth midwifery practice in Ithaca. |  |
Susan Klugman, M.D., specializes in obstetrics and gynecology and clinical genetics. She serves as an associate professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health and director of the Division of Reproductive Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University & Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Klugman graduated New York University School of Medicine in 1988, and completed residency and fellowship at Albert Einstein Medical Center. |
Modern Herbalism in Practice
Wednesday February 29th
253 Malott
6:00PM - 7:30PM
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7Song, has been directing the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine for 13 years, and serves as a herbal practitioner and Director of Holistic Medicine at the Ithaca Free Clinic. He also teaches at many school and conferences through the country. 7Song began studying the many aspects of herbal medicines in his late twenties, including botany, plants as medicine, physiology, and clinical work. He attended the California School of Herbal Studies and the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, as well as many herbal conferences. He sees herbal medicine as a way to encourage community and increase our connection to the world of people and nature. |
The Future of Health Care Reform
Wednesday February 29th
G01 Uris
6:30PM - 8:00PM
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Sinan Unur, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. in Consumer Economics at Cornell University in 1999. His work focused on using experimental economics methods to analyze resource allocation mechanisms in the family. He was a senior lecturer with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management until 2009 where he taught classes on microeconomics, statistics and economics of regulation as well as doing consulting work involving Medicare Part D pricing and policies. He currently works as a private consultant on various projects including one analyzing pricing of medical products and services in the U.S. using Medicare data. He is a founding member of the Program on Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell. Dr. Unur favors market based policies that put consumer choice and individual freedom in the forefront to spread access to quality health care at affordable prices. |  |
Nicholas Ziebarth, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Cornell University in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. His research interests lie in the field of applied health and labor economics, specifically the interaction of social security systems with labor markets and population health. He also studies the driving forces and implications of health-related behaviors. Dr. Ziebarth received his PhD in Economics from the Berlin University of Technology, and worked as a research associated at the German Institute for Economic research prior to coming to control. In 2011 he was awarded the Upjohn Institute Dissertation award for his thesis titled "Sickness Absence and Economic Incentives." |
Consequences of Human Environmental Toxin Exposure in Underdeveloped Nations
Thursday March 1st
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
6:00PM-7:30PM
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Joseph Graziano, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He is also the founding director of the Columbia NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan. Dr. Graziano has devoted his career to understanding the consequences of exposure to metals on both the molecular and population levels. Previous research projects have focused on lead poisoning and its adverse effects on childhood development, leading to the development of an oral drug used to treat children with lead poisoning. Currently his focus is on arsenic exposure in Bangladesh and finding ways to reduce toxicity and provide clean drinking water. |
Events
Monday February 27th
Keynote Address
Tuesday February 28th
1 in 8: Prematurity and Birth Defects in the U.S.
Wednesday February 29th
Modern Herbalism in Practice
Wednesday February 29th
The Future of Health Care Reform
Thursday March 1st
Consequences of Human Environmental Toxin Exposure in Underdeveloped Nations