The Multi-State Collaborative will be holding its fourth annual conference on October 28th and 29th 2010 at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. Please join us as we:
- Discuss current opportunities (and challenges) to improve cessation benefit coverage and promote systems changes in healthcare to address tobacco use
- Identify strategies and new collaborations to promote policy and sustainable systems in healthcare
- Facilitate exchange of data and best practices among states and national partners
Who Should Attend: State tobacco control programs and their partners, Medicaid agencies, healthcare organizations, and national organizations with cessation-related goals.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
- Rosemarie Henson, MSSW, MPH, US/HHS, Office of Assistant Secretary for Health
- Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, Director, University of Wisconsin, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
- Ursula Bauer, PhD, MPH, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- David Abrams, PhD, Executive Director, Schroeder Center, American Legacy Foundation
The conference will bring together state and national-level policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners to identify strategies to increase access to tobacco cessation. Speakers and panelists will discuss opportunities in the changing healthcare environment (e.g. health care reform, federal HHS initiatives, HIT) to improve benefit coverage and increase tobacco interventions in healthcare nation-wide. Experts and practitioners will lead workshops on current topics such as principles for working with health care systems, performance standards and alternative payment systems as change drivers, integration of tobacco into new care delivery models, and best case models and methods for incorporating tobacco into EMRs.
Registration will be limited!
To register online: Please click here
| Registration fees: | Members: $50
Non members: $100, $150 after July 31, 2010
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Click here to view the agenda.
Lodging: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Emory Conference Center Hotel. Please call the hotel directly to reserve rooms at 1-800-93-EMORY or 1-800-933-6679; please make sure to tell them you are with the “Multi-State Collaborative” conference.
For more information: contact Caroline Cranos at caroline.cranos@umassmed.edu with any questions.
Thank you to our conference sponsors:
