Department of Health
Susan R. Cooper, MSN, RN, Commissioner

12th Annual Health Summit of Minority Communities

Reclaiming a Legacy of Healthy Communities: The Time is Now!

August 22 – 24, 2007

Sheraton Music City Hotel
777 McGavock Pike
Nashville, Tennessee 37217
(615) 885-2200
(615) 368-7764

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Registration Information

Registration Fee: $125.00 after August 8, 2007 $150.00

Full-Time College Student: $75.00 after August 8, 2007 $100.00

Exhibitors Registration Fee: $300.00(Gov/Non-profit) $400.00(Corp.)

Agenda

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Youth Min-Summit – 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.

Eating to Create a Strong Mind and Healthy Body
Presenter: Leslie Speller-Henderson, MS

High School Peer Advocacy Training (CHART)
Presenter: Chad Bullock
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Workshops – 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

HIV/AIDS Institute
Overview of HIV/AIDS: Examining Health Disparities Among Communities of Color in Tennessee
Presenter: Ravinia Hayes-Cozier

Social Action Training School
Christian Spirituality as a Health Intervention Tool among African Americans
Presenter: Joanne Flowers, Ph.D., MPH, MSEH

Workshops – 10:15 A.M. – 11:15 A.M.

HIV/AIDS Institute
Communicating for Social Change
Presenter: Margaret Korto, MBA

Social Action Training School
Cultural Competence and the BE SAFE MODEL: Can It Weather the Storm?
Presenter: Sheila Dennie, M.S.

Opening Luncheon & Plenary Session
11:30 A.M. – 2:15 P.M.
Master of Ceremony Rep. Joe Armstrong
Introduce MC- Luvenia Butler
13th Unites States Colored Troops Honor Guard
And the Marine Reserve Honor Guard
National Anthem Ms. Michel Mosby
Black National Anthem Ms. Roxanne Hatter
Presenter- Mayor Mike Ragsdale, Knoxville
Welcome – Governor Bredesen
Welcome – Commissioner Susan Cooper
Speaker – Winston Wilkinson, Director Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Dept of HHS
Remarks and Blessings – Rep. John DeBerry
Music before & during lunch – Jazz Instrumentals by Lori Mecham
Lunch
Luncheon Speaker – Dr. Rodney Hood – “The Challenge” A History of Disparities in the Americas

Workshops – 2:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.

HIV/AIDS Institute
State’s Response to the HIV Crisis in African American Communities
Presenter: Jacqueline Fleming Hampton, PhD., MS

Social Action Training School
Community Mobilization
Presenters: Marino Bruce, Ph.D., and Mr. Cecil Conley, Sr. Keith Caldwell

Legislator’s Reception – 6:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
Mistress of Ceremony Sen. Thelma Harper Hosted by: Senator Reginald Tate, Senator Ophelia E. Ford, Senator Thelma Harper, Representative Johnny Shaw, Representative: Joe Armstrong, Representative: Larry Miller
Introduce MC- Luvenia Butler
Acknowledge all elected officials and other dignitaries
Presentation of Checks by Rep. Joe Armstrong & All members of the Tennessee General Assembly to Meharry Medical College
Remarks and Blessings Dr. Forrest Harris
Special Soloist – Benita Washington
Mix and Mingle – Music provided by Harpist Amy McKinney

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Workshops – 9:00 A.M. – 11:15 A.M.

Health
(1) Women’s Health: The Challenges We Must Face Exploring the Cycles of Domestic Violence
Presenters: Ervina Jarrett and Robin Kimbrough, JD

African American Women and Breast Cancer: Overcoming the Battle and Maintaining the Victory
Presenter: Patricia K. Bradley, Ph.D.

(2) Men’s Health: A Family Concern, a Community Solution Part II
The Overlooked Silent Killers: What We Need to Know
Presenters: John Arradondo, M.D., Dwight Lewis (Patient), and Derrick Beech, M.D. F.A.C.S.

(3) Embracing the Heart
Presenters: Walter Clair, M.D., and Frances Henderson (Jackson Heart Study)

(4) Mood Disorders: Depression and Bipolar
Presenters: Heidi Killimanjaro-Davis and Clarence Jordan (Recovery and Resiliency)

Mental Fitness
Presenter: Gerald W. Davis, II, MAEd andA. Lorraine Allen

HIV/AIDS Institute
Mobilizing African American Communities To Respond to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Presenters: Sonya R. Taylor, M.S.A. and Charlie Baran

Social Action Training School Mobilizing through Partnership and Planning:
The Healthy Nashville 2010 and Healthy Memphis Common Table Initiatives
Presenters: Judy Dias and Arthur Sutherland, III, M.D., FACC

Boxed Lunch 11:30 A.M. – 2:15 P.M.
Plenary Session
Introduce MC- Luvenia Butler
Masters of Ceremony Senator Reginald Tate Rev. Edwin Sanders, II
Speaker: Oscar Morgan, Vice President Health Management Consultants, Annapolis, MD
Panel Preventing Violence in Schools
The Red Road, Native American Dancers with Charles and Susan Robinson
Moderator Paul Juarez, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair Academic Affairs, Meharry Med. College
Panel members:
Walter Lynn Stuart – Program Coordinator, United Neighborhood Health Services
Neely Williams, D.DIV, Chairperson, Nashville Community Coalition for Youth Safety
Martha Edwards, Martha O’Brien Resource Center
Youth Panel member
Youth Panel member
Questions/answers from assembly
Closing

Workshops – 2:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Health
(1) Get Fit: Diabetes Prevention
Presenter: David Udom, M.D.
Small Changes
Presenter: Myrtle and Cameron Russell

(2) Suicide Prevention: When the Promise of the Rainbow Is Not Enough
Presenters: Sean Joe, Ph.D. and Sherry Molock, Ph.D.

(3) Co-occurrence Disorders: A Protocol for Healing
Presenters: Darlene Fowler and Felicia Harris-Williams, MA

(4) What’s Keeping Your Body Safe: What You Need to Know
Presenters: Ananthakrishnan Ramani, M.D., Aleece Stewart,Greg Mathews and Yigzaw Belay (Tuberculosis Workshop)

HIV/AIDS Institute
HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral Services in Communities of Color
Presenters: Sharon L. Crawford, Ph.D. and Ron Crowder

2:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.

Social Action Training School
Reducing Mortality in Youth Violence Demonstration Project
Presenter: Walter L. Stuart

3:35 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.

Examining your Financial Health
Presenters: Alan Smith and Christina Coleman, MBA

Exhibitor’s Reception and Film Fest -
6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Introduce MC- Luvenia Butler
Mistress of Ceremony
Film Festival
Movies provided by MEE (Multimedia Education and Entertainment) Productions/Ivan Juzang
Exhibitors Blow Out
Live Jazz: Kandance Springs

Friday, August 24, 2007

Plenary Session and Closing Luncheon – 9:00 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Introduce MC- Luvenia Butler
Master of Ceremony Rep. Johnny Shaw Tina Bozeman
Music by: Serenatta Latin Ensemble
Panel Coordinator Dr. Cherry Houston
Panel - School Based Clinics/Community Services
United Neighborhood Health Services
Moderator: Mary Bufwack, Ph.D., CEO,
Ira Jones, COO, CFO
Walter L. Stuart, Program Coordinator
Establishing a New School Based Clinic
Moderator
Mary Bufwack, Ph.D., CEO,
Ira Jones, COO/CFO
Walter L. Stuart, Program Coordinator
Frank Stevenson, MPA
Rep. Joe Armstrong
Questions/Answers from assembly
Speaker: Theodora Pinnock, M.D. – Topic Infant Mortality
Summit Findings: Cherry L. Houston, Ph.D., MPH, RN
Luncheon

Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Rodney G. Hood, MD
President & CEO Multicultural Health Disparities Institute (MHDI)
President Multicultural Primary Care, IPA
CEO, Careview Medical Group, Inc.

Dr. Rodney Hood is a frequently sought national speaker who articulately addresses the current healthcare concerns in the United States, especially health issues that persist in our most vulnerable populations. Dr. Hood has lectured extensively to diverse national audiences of healthcare providers, health administrators, medical students, federal and state governmental agencies as well as to national private and public audiences. His audiences have included many universities, medical schools, NIH, HIRSA, NAACP, Urban League, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures Association (PhRMA), Aetna Academic Medicine and Managed Care Forum, American Medical Association (AMA) Leadership Forum, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Leadership Forum, National Medical Association (NMA) African American Health Colloquium as well as many church and social organizations.

His areas of expertise include health disparities, managed care administration, medical history and racism in medicine, health policy and advocacy as well as cultural competency in healthcare. He is currently the president of the Multicultural Primary Care, IPA which is a contracting entity compsed of over 100 physicians serving diversified ethnic populations in San Diego County. As a result of this experience he has developed critical insights into the recently proposed Pay-for-Performance reimbursement programs and their potential negative impact on ethnically diverse populations with high disease burdens.

He is an honor graduate from Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, UCSD School of Medicine, UCSD Medical School Internal Medicine Residency, Past President and Chairman of the board of the National Medical Association, UCSD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and currently serves as the President & CEO of the Multicultural Health Disparities Institute (MHDI) in San Diego, California. Dr. Hood is a board certified physician of internal medicine currently in private practice as the managing partner of Care View Medical Group. He continues to serve on multiple state, local and national advisory committees, boards and commissions in the health field but he continually makes time to educate about his deepest passion, the legacy of slavery, its roots found in today’s health care disparites and solutions toward the elimination of these inequities in the American health care delivery system.

Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr.

Dr. Forrest E. Harris, Sr. was appointed President of American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. In addition, he is the Director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies and Assistant Dean for Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. As Assistant Professor for the Practice of Ministry at Vanderbilt, Dr. Harris teaches courses in the area of Church Community and the Theology of Ministry in the Black Church tradition.

Dr. Harris holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Knoxville College, a Bachelor of Theology (Th.B.) degree from American Baptist College, Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degrees from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where he was a Benjamin E. Mays Fellow and recipient of the Florence Conwell prize for preaching.

Dr. Harris is the son of Mr. And Mrs. W.T. and Sallie Mae Harris of Memphis, Tennessee. He has a twin brother, and seven other sisters and brothers.

From 1971 to 1979, Dr. Harris was a Federal Compliance Officer with the Energy and Research Development Administration, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a senior compliance officer, Dr. Harris received a Special Achievement Certificate Cash Award for negotiating a $1.2 million affected class remedy for minorities and females in the Southeast United States.

In 1975, Dr. Harris resigned his position with the federal government to respond to a call to prepare for the Christian preaching ministry. In the subsequent years ending in 1982, Dr. Harris commuted between Nashville and Oak Ridge to complete his seminary training.

While a seminary student at Vanderbilt, Dr. Harris pastored the Oak Valley Baptist Church, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. During his pastorate in Oak Ridge, Dr. Harris brought together several community organizations and founded the Oak Valley Development Corporation. He also served a three-year term as president of the Oak Ridge Branch of the NAACP. From 1985 to 1987, as an instructor at Roane State Community College, Dr. Harris initiated a Black Studies curriculum and coordinated social outreach programs and special events for Roane State.

Since 1988, Dr. Harris has been a member of the faculty and the Director of the Kelly Miller Institute at Vanderbilt Divinity School, which now has a 1.2 million dollar endowment. Through the institute at Vanderbilt, and with grants from the Lilly Endowment and the Pew Charitable Trust totaling over 1.3 million dollars, Dr. Harris coordinated a national ecumenical dialogue on “What Does It Mean to be Black and Christian?” Over 12,000 people participated in this national discussion resulting in the publication of two volumes--What Does It Mean to be Black and Christian? Pulpit, Pew and Academy in Dialogue, Townsend Press, 1995; and What Does It Mean to Be Black and Christian? The Meaning of the African American Church, Townsend Press, 1997. Also supported by foundation grants, Dr. Harris was instrumental in establishing a black church history and preservation project resulting in the establishment of a Black Church Historian Society in Nashville.

In addition to several journal articles, Dr. Harris is the author of Ministry for Social Crisis: Theology and Praxis in the Black Church Tradition, Mercer University Press, 1993. Dr. Harris received a journalism prize, cash award from The Journal of Intergroup Relations, National Association of Human Rights Workers for his article, “South Africa Beyond Apartheid,” The Journal of Intergroup Relations, the National Association of Human Rights Workers, Fall 1993.

Under his pastorate at Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, Dr. Harris was instrumental in establishing a progressive social ministry program aimed at the transformation of the community. He established the first church based Community Development Corporation in Nashville (the Pleasant Green Community Development Corporation) and he is responsible for the establishment of an inter-religious and inter-racial organization of Nashville congregations into Tying Nashville Together. Dr. Harris previously served as president of the Interdenominational Minister’ Fellowship (Nashville), and as a Board Member of the State of Tennessee Citizen’s Commission on Tenn-Care, Opportunities Industrialization Center, and United Way of Middle Tennessee.

As a member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, Dr. Harris traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa in 1993, and as a member of the Human Rights Commission, World Baptist Alliance, traveled to Hong Kong, China, Vancouver, Canada, and Duban, South Africa where he delivered papers on topics related to human rights, global and ethnic conflict.

Currently, Dr. Harris serves on the Nashville Sports Authority Board, and the Board of Nashville’s Non-Profit Management Corporation. Under his presidency at American Baptist College, the College’s endowment has increased by 65 percent.

Dr. Harris is a member of the 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, and life member of the NAACP. He is married to Jacqueline Borom Harris, a research nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They have four children: Kara, a mechanical engineer, with Proctor and Gamble Company; Elliot, Jr., Global Sourcing Division, Dollar General Corporation; Morgan, a college sophomore; and Alexis, a college freshman.

Hotel Accomodations

Single/Double Rates $109.00
Triple Rate $119.00
Quad rate $129.00

Rates are subject to State and Local Taxes
(Currently 14.25% Per Room Per Night)

Each Additional Person In Room $20.00 Per Night

Please make hotel reservations directly with the conference host hotel. Deadline for reservations is July 20, 2007. *The "cut-off" date for accepting reservations into this room block is August 7, 2007*.

FREE PARKING

Goals

• Present new efforts for building healthy communities and eliminating health disparities, and
• Explore multi-dimensional markets that impact a community’s health, knowledge and economic development.

Host

• Tennessee Black Health Care Commission
• Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators
• Tennessee Division of Minority Health and Disparity Elimination

For More Inforamtion

Contact Office of Minority Health
Phone: (615) 741-9443
Fax: (615) 253-1434
Toll Free: (877) 606-0089
frank.stevenson@tn.gov