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Conference Materials

"Closing the Gaps in Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults"

January 10, 2006

Agenda (125KB)

Speaker Biographies (292KB)

Keynote Presentation

• "The Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A National Profile," Claire Brindis, Dr.P.H., Executive Director of the National Adolescent Health Information Center, University of California, San Fransisco (22.76MB)

Closing the Gaps: Access Program Panel

• "Adolescents and Young Adults: The Health Insurance Challenge," Abigail English, J.D., Director, Center for Adolescent Health and the Law (74KB)
• "Access to Mental Health Services," Missy Fleming, Ph.D., Program Director, Child and Adolescent Health, American Medical Association (13.07MB)
• "Adolescent Health Initiatives," Dawn Wood, M.D., M.P.H., Vice President, Corporate Medical Director, WellPoint, Inc. and Harvinder Sareen, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Health Care Management, WellPoint, Inc. (707KB)

Closing the Gaps: Preventive Care Panel

• "Improving Adolescent Preventive Care in New York State," Jonathan Klein, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center (1.62MB)
• "CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health," Mary Vernon-Smiley, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Medical Officer, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (20.42MB)
• "Preventive Care Among Adolecents and Young Adults," Betsy La Forge, Manager, Prevention and Health Education, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (1.85MB)

Closing the Gaps: Special Populations Panel

• "Achieving Community-Based Service Systems for CYSHCN and Their Families," Monique Fountain, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Director, Medical Home and Healthy and Ready to Work Initiatives, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration (8.85MB)
• "It's Never An Option Not to Succeed," Brianne Schwantes, Youth advocate and public speaker (6.83MB)
• "Closing the Gaps - Special Populations," Donald Fischer, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Integrated Clinical Services, Highmark Inc. (20.73MB)

About NIHCM Foundation (121KB)

About MCHB (92KB)

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