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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COALITION ON HEALTH CARE holds a conference themed "Raising The Bar:
Improving The Quality Of Care For The Chronically Ill Through Best Practices And Better Public Policy."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - The Promise of Chronic Disease Management: Setting the Stage
Connie Davis, MN, ARNP, Group Health Cooperative
Kenneth Shine, MD, President, Institute of Medicine
Henry E. Simmons, MD, MPH, FACP
President, National Coalition on Health Care
The Role of AHRQ in Chronic Disease Management
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Acting Director, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality
9:20 a.m. - The Magnitude and Dynamics of Chronic Illness in America
Gerard Anderson, PhD, Professor, Health Policy and
Management and International Health, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health
9:45 a.m. - Chronic Disease in Children
Charlie Homer, MD, MPH, Executive Director, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
10 a.m. - Crossing the Quality Chasm: The Quality Gap and an Agenda for the Future
Janet Corrigan, Director, Board of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine
10:10 a.m. - Improving Chronic Illness Care: Translating the Chronic Care Model into Practice
Edward Wagner, MD, Director, W.A. MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation
Center for Health Studies Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
11 a.m. - Case Studies of Best Practices in Improving Care for Chronically Ill Patients in a Community Setting
Elvan Daniels, MD, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine
David Stevens, MD. Chief, Clinical Branch/Division of Community and
Migrant Health, Bureau of Primary Care, HRSA U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Genevieve Mack, MSN, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Director, Project AIR, New Haven, CT
Anne Lewis, Executive Director, High Plains Community Health Center, CareSouth Carolina
12:20 p.m. - Case Studies of Best Practices in Improving Care for
Chronically Ill Patients in the Office-Based Setting
Steve Hagedorn, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Marc Cordova, MD, Polyclinic, Seattle, WA
Evan Steffens, Premier Health Partners, Dayton, OH
1:45 p.m. - Crossing the Quality
Purchasing, Chasm Public and Private Strategies to Improve Chronic Disease Management
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Director Health Care Group, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
Karen Ignagni, President, American Association of Health Plans
John Rother, National Director, Policy and Strategy, AARP
Peter Lee, President & CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health
Dave Barry, President, Joint Labor Management Committee of the Retail Food Industry
2:55 p.m. - The Role of Public Policy in Improving Chronic Disease Management
Robert D. Ray, Former Governor of Iowa, Co-Chair, National Coalition on Health Care
Thomas Scully, Administrator, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services
3:25 p.m. - Lessons Learned/Next Steps
Ed Wagner, MD and Henry E. Simmons, MD
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: NAS, 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-638-7151
WEB ADDRESS: nchc.org
TIME: All day
EVENT: DIALOGUE ON DIVERSITY holds 2002 Entrepreneurship Conference themed "The Omnicompetent Woman: IT and Other Entrepreneurial Secrets."
AGENDA: Highlights:
Ma. Cristina Caballero, President, Dialogue on Diversity
Rep. Grace Napolitano, California
9:30 a.m. - HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE 2002
The Newest: Computers A Hand-Helds A Wireless A Security Devices
Software Innovations: Applications and Operating Systems
Hernan Cordoves and James N. Menendez, Computer Sciences Corporation
Omar Comas, Verizon Broadband Operations, DSL
10:30 a.m. - Marketing and Finance/Government Contracting
Financing your Technology Installation A Other Capital Needs
Theresa Alvillar-Speake, Dir., Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, DOE,
Marian Becton, Manager, External Affairs, Verizon Foundation
Russell Simmons, Riggs Bank, N.A.
11:30 A.M. - INTERNET 2002
Marketing, Purchasing, Research A 3 Rs and IT: Education as the New Equalizer
A Electronic Banking A The Advent of Broadband
Idit Harel, MaMaMedia, New York
Students from Thomas Jefferson Science High School, Arlington, Virginia,
1 P.M. - Gregory L. Rohde, e.Copernicus.com, former Director, NTIA
Maria Echaveste, former Deputy Chief of Staff, The White House]
Henry O. Hernandez, Pitney Bowes
Ronald Langston, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce
2 p.m. - E-COMMERCE ISSUES TODAY
Beatriz Manetta, Argent Associates
Zina Pierre, Washington Linkage Group,
Cristina Sepulveda, Prince George Workforce Services Corporation
2:30 P.M. -PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES FOR IT TRAINEES
Introduction of IT/Business Skills Trainees, Montgomery County
Elizabeth B. Davison, Director, Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Montgomery County, Maryland
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-631-0650
WEB ADDRESS: dialogueondiversity.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL NUEVA ESPERANZA presents the National Prayer Breakfast and policy briefing.
7:30 a.m. - Hispanic Prayer Breakfast featuring President George Bush
10:30 a.m. - Civic Education: The Rights of Every American"
Jim Towey, director, White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, briefing on the concerns Members of Congress might have and how to respond
Rev. Luis Cortés, "Turning Good Faith into Good Politics"
12:30 p.m. -- Hill visits
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Capital Hilton, 16th and K Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 334-657-9440
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: JACOBS INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH AND THE COMMONWEALTH FUND hold a symposium on Health Disparities Among Women of Color. Women who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely than white women to have difficulty communicating with their doctors, to feel they are treated disrespectfully in a health care setting, and to go to the emergency room for health care. They are less likely than white women to have health insurance or to see both a primary care provider and an obstetrician/gynecologist.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 748 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-371-1999
WEB ADDRESS: jiwh.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL FUTURES ASSOCIATION holds a breakfast briefing to discuss the key trends emerging in regulations of the futures marketplace featuring Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman James Newsone.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-276-1116
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ARTS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP holds a news conference releasing a study entitled "Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development."
WHO: The speakers are:
Eileen Mason, acting Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Susan Sclafani, Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
G. Thomas Houlihan, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers
Gerald E. Sroufe, interim Executive Director, American Educational Research Association, and advisor to Critical Links
Dr. James S. Catterall , Imagination Group, University of California at Los Angeles
Richard J. Deasy, Director, the Arts Education Partnership
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club First Amendment Lounge (13th Floor) 529 14th Street, NW
CONTACT: Rachael Payne at 310-274-8787, ext. 116
WEB ADDRESS: aep-arts.org.
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Morning Newsmaker" news program featuring The Only Defector to Serve as an Officer in North Korea's National Defense Service, Yoon Sung-Soo, discussing "A Look From Inside North Korea's Regime: How Kim Jong-IL Enslaves 23 Million People."
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION holds a news conference releasing its biannual fiscal survey of states.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Hall of States, 444 North Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5334
WEB ADDRESS: nga.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: TRAVEL INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION AND AAA hold a news conference releasing 16th annual Summer Travel Forecast.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Suzanne Cook, Senior Vice President of Research, Travel Industry Association of America
Sandra Hughes, Vice President Travel Related Services, AAA
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Cathy Keefe, 202-408-2183
WEB ADDRESS: tia.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: REP. MIKE PENSE holds a news conference to discuss H.R. 4658 the truth in Domain Names Act.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: House Triangle, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3021
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, D-MI, holds a news conference to discuss legislation that a will lower prescription drug costs.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Senate Radio and TV Gallery, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-4822
WEB ADDRESS:senate.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on the "Bush-Putin Summit: The Future of Arms Control and Missile Defense."
WHO: The speakers are:
Jack Spencer, Heritage Foundation
Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association
Charles Pena, Cato Institute.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: FAMILIES USA holds a news conference discussing the Republican prescription drug proposal.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ron Pollack, Families USA
Rep. John Dingall, D-MI
Rep. Pete Stark, D-CA
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: HC-9, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-3030
WEB ADDRESS: familiesusa.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION presents the distinguished journalist lecture entitled "Fear and Loathing on the Potomac: The Washington Times at 20," with Wes Pruden The Washington Times.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Director's Forum presents a lecture on Slovenia and Euro-Atlantic Integration with Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: JACOBS INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH holds a luncheon program honoring the 2002 Excellence in Women's Health Award winners.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 748 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-371-1999
WEB ADDRESS: jiwh.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Director's Forum entitled "Slovenia and Euro-Atlantic Integration," featuring Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH REFORM holds a luncheon briefing on "Medicare Medications: A Closer Look at Prescriptions for Improvement."
WHO: The speakers are:
Marilyn Moon, of the Urban Institute and a former Medicare Trustee
Julie James of Health Policy Alternatives and a former Senate Finance Committee Medicare analyst
Tom Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Sen. Rockefeller, R-WV
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: Room 106, Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-2300
WEB ADDRESS: allhealth.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Leonard Downie, executive editor of the Washington Post and Robert G. Kaiser who is the associate editor and senior correspondent discussing why media's preoccupation with celebrities, entertainment, sensationalism, and profits can make a mockery of the news.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker"news program featuring Senator Max Cleland
D-GA.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: MERCATUS CENTER Government Accountability Project who has sought to assist federal agencies' efforts to produce greater public benefits at less cost holds a news conference releasing 3rd Annual Performance Report Scorecard: Which Federal Agencies Inform the Public?
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-993-4930
WEB ADDRESS: mercatus.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a book launch for" No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict."
WHO: The speakers are:
David Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation, and author
Jan Eliasson, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States
Jane Holl Lute, Consulting Director, Conflict Prevention Project
6 p.m.- Heritage Foundation program on The Presidents' Brains
Tevi Troy Author of "Intellectuals and the American Presidency"
James Lucier The Prosperity Caucus
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SILVER OWLS presents The History of Rock 'n' Roll" featuring both commentary and musical interludes.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Cabaret Sauvignon delivering a variety of European tunes, influenced by jazz, Latin, Celtic, Swedish, and classical music.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Rich Cohen discussing and signing copies of Lake Effect, which recounts growing up on Chicago's North Shore. He describes his efforts to fit in among peers and focuses on a particular friendship that would change his outlook on life.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP holds its first annual benefit awards program to honor "Vital Voices," outstanding women leaders who have made extraordinary progress in advancing opportunities for women in their communities and countries.
DATE: May 16, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Elizabeth O'Connell, 202-772-3128.
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
