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Tuesday May 3, 2005

7:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 am
Chair, Day Two Remarks
Joseph A. Leutzinger Ph.D.
Principal, Health Improvement Solutions, Inc.
President, Academy for Health & Productivity Management
8:15 am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Cost-effective Successes of Corporate Wellness Programs:
  • Recognize that 81% of American businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of health promotion program
  • Demonstrate a range of worksite wellness programs reducing the risks of obesity, depression, stress, smoking, alcohol and drug use
  • Reveal results in productivity, efficiency, reducedhealth costs, sick leave and absenteeis
Moderator
David Hunnicutt Ph.D.
President
Wellness Councils of America
Panelists
David Artzerounian M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Vice President
MassMutual Benefits Management, Inc.
Jennifer Bruno
Director, Worldwide Wellness & Health Promotion
Johnson & Johnson
Donald H. Gemson M.D.
Medical Director
Merrill Lynch
Cyndy Parker R.N., M.H.A.
Care Management Manager
Daimler Chrysler
William N. Yang M.D.
Health Management Physician
The Coca Cola Company
9:15 am
Successful Depression Wellness Interventions — Beyond Bootstraps:
  • Examine "Kailo and Kailo One," a wellness initiative that integrates health promotion and employee assistance to address workplace depression
  • Employ a self-report assessment tool (BDI-II) and a non-threatening environment to increase awareness of depression, knowledge of resources and reduce stigma
  • Discuss participation, satisfaction including BDI-II scores improvement and an estimated cost savings cost-benefit ratio of 2.65
Laura McKibbin LISW
Program Coordinator & Provider Kailo for One Services
Mercy Medical Center, North Iowa
Kelly Putnam M.A.
Executive Director
Creator, Kailo
Mercy Medical Center, North Iowa
10:15 am
Networking & Refreshment Break
10:45 am
Cost-effective Successful Intervention of Behavioral Health Intervention — IBM
  • Make the business case for behavioral health within the corporation
  • Improve the integration of behavioral health counseling--substance abuse, depression, stress
  • Demonstrate identification of and intervention in depression contributing to reduction in short term disability and rehospitalization
Juan Prieto
Program Manager
Health Benefits
IBM
11:30 am
LUNCHEON ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
  • Moderated by Leadership Summit Speakers
  • Reservation for roundtable discussions arranged prior to the conference
  • Moderated by up to 15 speakers with roundtable topics
12:30 pm
Cost-effective Successful Wellness Interventions: 1) Smoking Cessation and 2) Exercise
  • Outline components of the military tobacco cessation and fitness intervention programs
  • Compare and contrast outcome measures and results of intervention programs presented with other programs in the civilian population
  • Identify successful strategies used by military personnel to improve health of the active duty population
Lieutenant Colonel Susan Irons R.N., B.S.N., M.P.H.
Health Promotion Director USAF, Offut Airforce Base
1:15 pm
Cost-effective Alcohol Abuse Interventions: Alcohol Abuse: 1) U.S. Post Office 2) National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)
  • Identify opportunities for improved screening, brief intervention and treatment for alcohol problems through an existing corporate employee assistance program (EAP), using lessons from the U.S. Postal Service
  • Unveil results from a pilot alcohol screening and brief intervention quality improvement initiative with the U.S. Postal Service
  • Describe the impact of business-led demand for evidence-based alcohol screening, brief intervention and treatment services on the delivery of care by health plans serving the commercial sector
  • Demonstrate an extension of the eValue8 RFI used by employers and health plans to promote high quality alcohol health care services
Eric Goplerud Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Health Policy
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Combining the Best of Behavioral Health, Pharma & Wellness Interventions”
  • Reveal a range of conditions where behavioral health and pharma offer the best results in the worksite
  • Demonstrate a range of conditions where wellness programs offer the best results in the worksite for obesity, stress, tobacco, alcohol and drug use
  • Recommend combined behavioral health and wellness approaches for increased productivity, efficiency, reduced health costs, sick leave and absenteeism
Moderator
Bill Whitmer MBA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)

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Panelists
Duncan Highsmith
Chairman
Highsmith, Inc
Jeff Kahn M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
WorkPsych Associates
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Cornell
David Nace M.D.
Immediate Past Medical Director
United Behavioral Health
3:30 pm
Conference Concludes
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