Program

Program Schedule

Posters will be open from 10:30 AM–2:00 PM with lunch provided for registrants. Poster awards will be presented at 3:30 PM, immediately after Dr. Carmona's Public Health Grand Rounds presentation.

7:30 AM Grand Ballroom lounge	Registration Begins Coffee available.
8:45 AM–9:15 AM Atrium	Welcoming Remarks Jane E. Clark, PhD, Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Health E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine Gerard M. Farrell, Captain US Navy (Retired), Executive Director, US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Foundation
9:15 AM–10:30 AM Atrium	Keynote Lecture and Discussion Building Leadership Teams to Address Critical Needs in Public Health Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD This lecture is part of the Public Health Grand Rounds lecture series.
10:30 AM–11:30 AM Atrium	Affordable Care Act Implementation: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Public Health Chair: Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Maryland Center for Health Equity, UMD SPH with Co-Chairs: Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, UMB, and Laura Hungerford, DVM, MPH, PhD, Epidemiology and Public Health, UMB School of Medicine (SOM) The panel will address progress in the Health Enterprise Zones of the State and how they can serve as training and research sites for improvement in public health of the populations. The panelists will describe how tools, such as Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, can be used to identify populations with specific needs and how such tools require the interdisciplinary efforts of teams to analyze the information available. The panel will also discuss the role of comparative effectiveness research in informing decisions in ACA implementation.
10:30 AM–2:00 PM Grand Ballroom	Poster Session Meet students and faculty and explore research on diverse public health topics. Poster session opens at 10:30 AM and closes at 2:00 PM. Awards will be given to the best student-presented posters at 3:30 p.m. in the Atrium immediately following the keynote lecture by Surgeon General Richard Carmona.
11:30 AM–1:00 PM Grand Ballroom	Lunch during Poster Session Buffet lunch.
12–12:50 PM Prince George's Room	HIV/AIDS: Local/Global Public Health Approaches Chair: Bradley Boekeloo, PhD, UMD Prevention Research Center Derek Spencer, MS, CRNP, executive director of the Institute of Human Virology Jacques Initiative, UMB The panel will discuss the advances and challenges of conducting research and bringing information to populations as diverse as college students, communities in the U.S. and those abroad in HIV/AIDS.
1–1:50 PM Atrium	Advances in Cancer Prevention and Control Co-chairs: Cheryl L. Holt, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, UMD SPH; Joanne Dorgan, PhD, Epidemiology and Public Health, UMB with panelist William A. Blattner, MD, Institute of Human Virology Panelists will describe the richness of their research collaborations in the area of cancer control, which include efforts of the Cancer Epidemiology Alliance Group to work with the state health department, provide joint survey programs in survey methodology, and develop collaborative proposals on cancer screening.
1–1:50 PM Prince George's Room	Physical Activity: the Magic "Pill" for Chronic Disease Prevention? Chair: J. Carson Smith, PhD, Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH with panelists James M. Hagberg, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH and Richard F. Macko, MD, VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence in Exercise and Robotics, UMB SOM Panelists will discuss their progress across both campuses in developing large–scale community based research proposals on physical activity, developing relationships with clinical research participants at a retirement community, the integration of research in physical activity with that in epidemiology and the critical role of graduate and undergraduate students in advancing research in the effects of physical activity in public health.
2–2:15 PM Atrium	Desserts Sponsored by Delta Omega, the honorary society for graduate studies in public health
2:15–3:30 PM Atrium	Keynote Lecture and Discussion The Future of Tobacco Control Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD, MPH FACS This lecture is part of the Public Health Grand Rounds lecture series. Panel discussants include: David Ashley, PhD, (Rear Admiral, US Public Health Service) FDA Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Science Kathleen Hoke, JD, Director, Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy, UMB Carey School of Law Pamela I. Clark, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, UMD SPH(invited) Moderator: Ira Chinoy, PhD, Associate Dean of the UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism
3:30 PM–3:45 PM Atrium	Awards Presentation