Preliminary Program

Conference presentation PDFs are available here. All conference events will be held at the Hyatt Regency Calgary. Monday, October 29^th, 2007

7:00 am	Pre-Conference Registration

8:30 - 12:00pm	Workshop 1: (FULL) Innovative Chronic Disease Delivery in Primary Care Workshop 2: Information Systems in Chronic Disease Care Workshop 3: Self Management Support for Health Care Providers Workshop 4: Living Well with a Chronic Condition Program and Multicultural Chronic Disease Management Workshop 5: (FULL) Chronic Disease Management - Key Performance Indicators Workshop 6: Complex Chronic Patients Workshop 7: (FULL) Self Management Refresher Workshop for Leaders and Trainers Workshop 8: What to do about pain? Are broad-based community solutions possible?

7:00 - 6:00 pm	Conference Registration Open



2:00 - 2:30 pm	Dr. Cristina V. Beato Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Regional Office for World Health Organization (WHO) Washington, DC, USA

2:30 - 3:00 pm	Refreshment Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions (Click here for a PDF with details for this day)



Tuesday, October 30^th, 2007



8:30 - 9:15 am	Dr. John Frank, MD, CCFP,MSc, FAM Director, CIHR Institute for Population and Public Health, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada

9:15 - 10:45 am	Victoria Barr, MHSc Healthy Communities Consultant Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Dr. Alex Jadad, MD, DPhil, FRCPC Chief Innovator and Founder for Global eHealth Innovation Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Michael Rachlis, MD, MSc, FRCPC Consultant, Health Policy Analysis Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Kate Lorig, RN, DrPh Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, California, USA

10:45 - 11:15 am	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:15 - 12:00 pm	Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD Professor Emeritus of Nursing, University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta, Canada

12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch & Interest Groups Interest Group Topics: 1. Ethics 2. Advancing Nursing Practice 3. Chronic Disease Prevention & Management Program Development 4. Personal/Professional Balance 5. Addictions Professional Group 6. Allied Health & Inter – Professional Practice 7. National & International Collaboration 8. Chronic Disease Prevention Interest Groups are provided as an opportunity for conference participants to gather, exchange information and network. For this lunch only, tables will be identified by the topics listed above. Each table will have a facilitator to lead the discussion.. The identified tables will remain for the duration of the conference, but will not have a facilitator.

1:00 - 2:30 pm	Workshops & Concurrent Sessions (Click here for a PDF with details for this day)

2:30 - 3:00 pm	Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

3:00 - 3:45 pm	Dr. Marilee Donovan , RN, PhD Supervisor/ Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kaiser Permanente, Chronic Pain Unit Portland, Oregon, USA Professor K. Srinath Reddy ,MD, DM President, Public Health Foundation of India New Delhi, India

3:45 - 4:45 pm	Dr. Vincent J. Felitti Co-principal Investigator, ACE Study The California Institute of Preventative Medicine La Jolla , California, USA



7:00 - 9:00 pm	Public Event (conference delegates welcome) The Role of Sleep in Chronic Disease Prevention & Management Dr. Allan Pack, MB, ChB, PhD Chief, Division of Sleep Medicine Director, Centre of Sleep & Respiratory Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, USA

Wednesday, October 31^st, 2007

7:00 - 8:15 am	Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 am	Dr. Marcia Anderson, MD, FRCPC President, Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada Master of Public Health Student, The Hopkins Sommer Scholars Program Baltimore, Maryland, USA

9:15 - 10:45 am	Dr. Ingrid Mur-Veeman , PhD Associate Professor, Department of Health Organization Policy and Economics (HOPE), University of Maastricht, Maastricht , the Netherlands Dr. Alberto Barcelo, MD, MSc Regional Advisor on Chronic Disease Pan American Health Organization Washington, DC, USA Dr. Jason Cheah, MBBS ( Singapore), MMed, MSc (Singapore), PAM ( Wales), MD Chief Projects Officer of the National Healthcare Group Singapore, Republic of Singapore

10:45 - 11:00 am	Refreshment Break and Poster Viewing

11:00 - 12:15 pm	Stephen Samis, MSoc Director, Health Policy, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Neil MacDonald Executive Director, Population Health Strategies Alberta Health and Wellness Dr. Michael Rachlis, MD, MSc, FRCPC Consultant, Health Policy Analysis , Toronto, Ontario, Canada

12:15 - 1:15 pm	Lunch

1:15 - 4:30 pm	Workshops & Concurrent Sessions (Click here for a PDF with details for this day)



Thursday, November 1^st, 2007

7:00 - 8:15 am	Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 am	Dr. Marco Bonollo, MBBS (Hons.), FRACP Director, Disease Management Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

9:15 - 10:30 am	Pablo Rivero Cortez General Director of Health Innovation Systems and Technologies, Andalusian Regional Ministry of Health, Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain Dr. Francisca Ayodeji Akala, MD, MPH, MSc Senior Public Health Specialist, Human Development Sector Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Washington, DC, USA Dr. Alexander Bischoff , PhD, MPH, RN, Lecturer and Senior Scientist Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

10:30 - 11:00 am	Refreshment Break

11:00 - 12:00 am	Dr. Peter Sargious, MD, MPH, FRCPC General Internist , Medical Director of Chronic Disease Management, Calgary Health Region Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Alex Jadad, MD, DPhil, FRCPC Chief Innovator and Founder for Global eHealth Innovation Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Marco Bonollo, MBBS (Hons.), FRACP Director, Disease Management Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Preliminary Program

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