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Schedule Last Updated - 1/28/08


January 30, 2008 (Wednesday) - FedEx Global Education Center
Nelson Mandela Auditorium

3:00PM
Seating available in Nelson Mandela Auditorium
3:30 - 4:45PM
Plenary Session I - Global Health - China and the US

Introductory Remarks: James Moeser: Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill
Conference Keynote: Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economy, Princeton University

4:45 - 6:00PM
Reception, Global Education Center Atrium


January 31, 2008 (Thursday) - Carolina Club - Alumni Hall


8:00 - 8:40AM
Check In / Refreshments
8:45 - 10:45AM
Plenary Session II - HIV and STDs in China / Dangers and Responses 2008

Presider: Myron S. Cohen: Director, UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Keynote Speeches

  • HIV Care: Zhang Fujie: Director, Division of Treatment and Care, National Center for AIDS (NCAIDS)
  • HIV Prevention in China: Cheng Feng: China Office Director, Family Health International
  • Epidemic and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Disease in China: Chen Xiang-Sheng: Director, STD Epidemiology, National Center for STD Prevention and Control

Roundtable Panel
Huang Yingying: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, People's University
Gordon Liu: Professor & Chair, Dept of Health Economics, Guanghua School of Management, PKU
Ma Ye: Division of Treatment and Care, NCAIDS
Wendee Wechsberg: Director of Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions Research Program, RTI
David Wohl: Associate Professor of Medicine, UNC

10:45 - 11:00AM
Coffee Break
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Plenary Session III - Tobacco Control in the US and China

Presider: Adam Goldstein: Director, UNC Tobacco Prevention & Evaluation Program

Keynote Speeches

  • China’s Tobacco Control Policy at a Crossroads:
    Challenges for Public Health and Economics:
    Teh-wei Hu: Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
  • The Cigarette Epidemic in the American South and Global Tobacco Control in the 21st Century: Louis Kyriakoudes: Director, Center for the Study of the Gulf South, University of Southern Mississippi

Roundtable Panel
Blake Brown: Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
Matthew Farrelly: Director of the Public Health Economics and Policy Research Program, RTI Center for Health Promotion Research
Valeria L. Lee: President, Golden Leaf Foundation
Vandana Shah: Executive Director of the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund
Zheng Xiaoying: Professor & Director, Population Research Institute, PKU

1:00 - 2:30PM
Lunch Break - Lunch Provided free to those that register
2:30 - 4:30PM
Plenary Session IV - Cardiovascular Care in the US and China

Presiders:
Sidney Smith: Director, Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, UNC
Rick Stouffer: Director, C.V.Richardson Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, UNC

Keynote Speeches

  • CardiovascularGuidelines and Patient Outcomes in the USA: Sidney Smith: Director, Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, UNC
  • Preliminary Results of the BRIG Project in China: Zhao Dong: Deputy Director, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung, & Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital
  • Heart Failure: A Growing Epidemic: Patricia Chang: Director, Cardiomyopathy and Transplant Service, UNC

Roundtable Panel
Shula Bernard: Director, Health Care Quality Program, Division of Health Services and Social Policy Research, RTI International
Marilyn Hunn: Director of Science Operations, World Heart Federation
Gwen Sherwood: Assoc. Dean, School of Nursing, UNC
Wang Peiyu: Professor & Assistant Dean, School of Public Health, PKU
Yan Lijing: Professor, Dept. of Health Economics, Guanghua School of Management, PKU
Eric Yang: Director, Coronary Care Unit, UNC Hospitals




February 1, 2008 (Friday) - Carolina Club


8:00 - 8:40AM
Check In / Refreshments
8:45 - 10:45AM
Plenary Session V - Health Reform: Changing Paradigms in the US and China

Presider: Hai Wen: Professor & Vice President, Peking University

Keynote Speeches

  • Health Reform in the US, 2008 and Beyond: William L. Roper, Dean, UNC School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health Care System
  • Health Reform in China: Gordon Liu: Professor & Chair, Dept of Health Economics, Guanghua School of Management, PKU

Roundtable Panel
John Akin: Professor & Chair, Department of Economics, UNC
Bill Atkinson: President and CEO, WakeMed Health & Hospitals
Tsung-Mei Cheng: Host and Executive Editor, International Forum, Princeton University
Dean Harris: Clinical Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Health Policy and Admin., SPH, UNC
Jan Mitchell: Director, Division for Health Services and Social Policy Research, RTI
John Russell: Quintiles / UNC
Zhang Wei: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Economics, Guanghua School of Management, PKU

10:45 - 11:00AM
Coffee Break
11:00AM - 12:00PM

Plenary Session VI - Closing Ceremony and Thoughts on the Future

 

Presider: Peter Coclanis, Associate Provost for International Affairs, UNC

Future Topics

  • Mental Illness: Scott Stroup: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, UNC
  • Obesity: Barry Popkin: Professor, Dept. of Nutrition, SPH, UNC

Closing Remarks
Hai Wen: Professor & Vice President, Peking University
James Moeser: Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill