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This presentation will include information on the Master Certified Health Education Specialist, MCHES.  The process for the Experience Documentation Opportunity (EDO) that will open on October 15, 2010 will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

Explain MCHES exam details, such as eligibility criteria, projected fees, and continuing education contact hours

Explain the Experience Documentation Opportunity process to become MCHES

About the Presenter: Melissa Rehrig

Melissa Rehrig, MPH, CHES, is the Communications Coordinator of the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.  The mission of The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC) is to improve the practice of health education and to serve the public and profession of health education by certifying health education specialists, promoting professional development, and strengthening professional preparation and practice.  Melissa oversees projects related to communicating messages about health education certification and NCHEC to various audiences.  She serves as Webmaster of the NCHEC Web site, the publication editor of the CHES Bulletin, and the production editor for printed, electronic, and other marketing materials.     She received a Masters degree in Public Health from East Stroudsburg University.  Melissa is a Certified Health Education Specialist, CHES, and has over seven years of community and school health experience.

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In this thought-provoking and fast moving presentation, you will hear from an international leader in the field of population health management: Michael Samuelson.  From his seat as a health promotion pioneer in the early 1970s to his current position as President and CEO of The Health & Wellness Institute, Michael knows this story from all angles and he is anxious to share the observations and lessons learned from his journey.

Topics to be covered include:

• Ten Fundamental Understandings
• Healthcare vs. Sickcare:  Time to Level Set
• The Five Ws of Healthcare

1. What’s Happening?
2. So What?
3. What Now?
4. What Next?
5. What Difference Did It/Will It Make?

• The Health Continuum & The Determinants of Health
• Healthcare Transformation: Paternalism to Shared Responsibility
• The New Social Contract: A Formula for Chronic Disease Prevention

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About the presenter:  Michael H. Samuelson, President & CEO of The Health & Wellness Institute

Over the past thirty-five years — from Boston to Brussels, London to Little Rock, Pittsburg to Paris and Hattiesburg to Havana, Cuba — Michael Samuelson has lectured on leadership, health promotion, health policy, disease prevention and the dynamics of behavior change.  An author of five books and numerous articles on leadership and behavior change, his work has been featured on the ABC News program, 20/20, The CBS Morning Show, CNN and MSNBC as well as numerous national print publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Business Week and USA Today. Michael, a graduate of the university of Michigan with a Master’s degree in education, is a Viet Nam Era veteran of the US Air Force (1967 – 1971) and a recipient of the Commander’s Coin of Excellence from the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.

His writings, audio work and behavior change programs have been distributed to millions throughout the world and have been publicly endorsed by scientists, politicians, advocacy organizations, business leaders and media personalities including:  George H.W. Bush (41), Betty Ford, C. Everett Koop, Jim Prochaska, Dee Edington, Ken Blanchard, The Lance Armstrong Foundation and Larry King.

Practicing what he preaches, Michael is an avid world trekker with high altitude mountain adventures logged in Asia, Europe, Africa, Alaska and the U.S. lower forty-eight.

You can follow his personal quest for optimal health by clicking the link below:

http://www.mhsamuelson.com/MHSamuelson/Welcome.html

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The questions that every employer and plan sponsor, every health plan and benefits manager should be asking must reframe the question: How much health, instead of healthcare, are we buying? How much could we buy with the same money we are spending now, if we purchased services more wisely?

Understanding that things had to change if employers were to be able to continue to afford healthcare, a few forward thinking payers and influencers began to rethink their healthcare strategies. Two healthcare “experiments” began to take hold. One involved refocusing employees on the virtues of health and wellness. The other focused on decreasing the financial barriers to some of the care that would actually put healthier people back to work because they were compliant with their treatments.

These experiments that utilized reductions in co-pays for some populations continued to broaden with the inclusion of incentives for participation in annual or baseline health risk assessments, health fairs, and disease management. So began the development of behavior change through incentives that actively engage consumers to participate in their health and healthcare. The use of these incentives have evolved into the levers of population change that form the core of value-based design initiatives.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the nature of value-based design and the challenges it is designed to resolve.
2. Be conversant with the 4 Ds of value-based design . . data, design, delivery and dividends.
3. Know why health promotion is a foundational element of value-based design.
4. Learn the key skills and competencies that health promotion practitioners bring to successful implementation of value-based design.

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About the presenters:  Cyndy Nayer and John E. Riedel

John Riedel is President of Riedel & Associates Consultants, Inc (RACI). RACI provides health and productivity management services to self-insured employers and employer coalitions, health plans, hospitals, disease prevention and disease management providers, and pharmaceutical companies. RACI services include market research, survey design and deployment, strategy development, product positioning, and measurement design.

John was responsible for development of a comprehensive health and productivity management training program (called HPM Clinic) in collaboration with the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Integrated Benefits Institute. He was co-developer of the Blueprint for Health an on-line tool that estimates the total cost of poor health including direct medical cost, absence, and presenteeism. And he co-authored Measuring Employee Productivity: A guide to self-assessment tools, popularly known as the Gold Book.

John has been a thought leader in the health and productivity management field. He writes and presents regularly on the topics of health and productivity, wellness, disease management, and value-based design. As the Principal at RACI he has worked with over 70 clients including Healthwise, Pacificare, the National Business Coalition on Health, Health Media Inc., Florida Hospital System, Merck-Medco Managed Care, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering-Plough, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Quest Communications, Dow Chemical, Glaxo Smith Kline, the Integrated Benefits Institute, the Center for Health Value Innovation, Take Care Health Systems, Staywell Health Management, and 15 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans.
John received his MBA from Aurora University (Aurora, IL) and his MPH from the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL) He holds a Certificate of Applied Management from George William College (Downer’s Grove, IL). He lives in the front range mountains of Colorado with his wife Mary and his dog Huck, a Hurricane Katrina survivor.

Cyndy Nayer is a founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer.  Under her direction, the Center has grown into the nation’s premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs. Nayer is recognized as a thought leader for value based benefit design, and continues to provide education, insight and guidance to the Center’s growing membership as well as government leaders, high-profile media, and other industry stakeholders. She has tracked the emergence, adoption and change in the value based designs and their link to consumer-directed health.  She is the co-author of the first book from the Center, Leveraging Health: improve health status and bend the trend on financial outcomes with value-based designs.  published in 2009.  In 2006 she published a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions, entitled 101 Lifetips for Personal Health Management, identifying the roadmap for becoming the CEO of one’s health-wealth portfolio, a concept she has copyrighted.  She is the former Chair of the Missouri Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness, and received the CEO Leadership Award for Consumer Directed Health in 2008.

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About the presenter:  Teresa is Business Coordinator for Worksite Wellness with the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Department for Public Health.  Lovely provides education for private business in worksite wellness across the state. Previously employed by Vanderbilt Health Promotion and Wellness Center, Lovely’s work received national attention including a congressional testimony in 2004 and has been featured in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and WebMD. Lovely has 15 years experience in worksite and holds a degree in Health with a Wellness Promotion Emphasis, a graduate certificate in Health Promotion Management, and certifications as a  Health Education Specialist,  Health Promotion Director,  Worksite Wellness Director and Weight Management/ Lifestyle Consultant, Advanced Exercise Specialist, and Wellness Speaker having conducted over 80 presentations.

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Fact panels, package labels, nutrition reports.  There has to be a better way to make decisions about the foods you eat.  Now there is: the NuVal™ Nutritional Scoring System.

The NuVal System does the nutritional heavy lifting so you don’t have to.  Developed by an independent panel of nutrition and medical experts, the System helps you see – at a glance – the nutritional value of the food you buy.

How? The NuVal System scores food on a scale of 1-100. The higher the NuVal Score, the better the nutrition. It’s that simple. And it’s coming to every aisle of your favorite grocery stores – right there on the shelf tag.  Now you can compare overall nutrition the same way you compare price. You can even compare apples and oranges.

NuVal LLC is dedicated to making good nutrition easy by providing comprehensive nutritional information in a single number.  NuVal LLC is a joint venture formed in 2008 by Topco Associates, LLC, and Griffin Hospital of Derby, Connecticut, a non-profit community hospital and home to the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Located in Braintree, MA, NuVal licenses its proprietary food scoring system, which is based on ONQI TM (Overall Nutrition Quality Index) science, to food retailers across the country.

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About our Presenter: Dr. David Katz: http://www.davidkatzmd.com/

David L. Katz MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is a nationally recognized authority on nutrition, weight control, and the prevention of chronic disease.

He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health Practice, and formerly the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health, at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Katz directs the Yale Prevention Research Center, which he co-founded in 1998.

Dr. Katz has published over 100 scientific articles and chapters; innumerable abstracts, newsletter articles, health columns, and essays, and eleven books to date.

Dr. Katz is formerly a medical contributor for ABC news, the nutrition columnist to O, The Oprah Magazine, an on-line expert blogger for Prevention Magazine, and a syndicated health/nutrition columnist for The New York Times. He is also a frequent contributor of expert opinion on nutrition and obesity to publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, HealthDay News, and The Associated Press.

The visionary behind the NuVal™ Nutritional Scoring System, Dr. Katz convened and led the 12-member scientific panel that developed the ONQI™ (Overall Nutritional Quality Index) algorithm that powers the NuVal System.

Dr. Katz also is the Chief Science Officer for NuVal LLC and liaison to the independent Scientific Advisory Board that oversees the ongoing management of the ONQI algorithm.

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Mental and emotional wellness are key components to overall health. Training in the skills that foster life satisfaction and job satisfaction are associated with better health, higher productivity, and lower absenteeism in the workplace. The science of happiness that is emerging from positive psychology holds promise to increase awareness of the factors that comprise the blissful life. And the practical application of these skills will benefit both employees and employers through improved engagement in a healthy workplace. New possibilities can be seen when organizations let go of a reactive focus on problems and engage in a “broaden and build” strategy.

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Addition resources:

Boyatzis, R. & McKee, A. (2005) Resonant Leadership. Boston: Harvard Business
School Press.
Brisken, A. (1998). The Stirring of the Soul in the Workplace. San Francisco: Barrett-
Koehler.
Goleman, D. (1998). Working with Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.
Layard, R. (2005) Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. New York: Penguin Press.
Maddie, S. & Kobasa, S. (2005). Resilience at Work. New York: AMACOM Books.
Whyte, D. (1994). The Heart Aroused. New York: Bantam Books.

About the presenter:  John Weaver, Psy.D.

John Weaver, Psy.D. is the director of The Healthy Thinking Initiative and the author of “The Prevention of Depression: A Missing Piece in Wellness”.

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About the presenter:  Larry Chapman

Larry Chapman, MPH, is President and CEO of Chapman Institute, and Senior Advisor, for WebMD Health Services. Larry provides thought leadership on integrating health cost management, plan design, incentive systems, and organized prevention programming for worksite, managed care, and community-based populations.  He has spent more than 30 years improving the health of employees and their family members and has developed more than a thousand (1,000) employee health and productivity management programs including more than 200 wellness financial incentive programs.  Formally educated in environmental health, medical technology, and medical care organization at UCLA and the University of Michigan, Chapman is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on innovative health management interventions. He has also published 13 books and more than 190 professional articles and columns.  Chapman co-founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Summex Health Management, which was acquired by WebMD in 2006.

Larry has been married to Ginny Chapman for 39 years, has two grown sons, two daughters-in-law and four delightful grand children.  Playing golf, taking family trips, snorkeling, gardening and hiking Northwest mountain trails are some of his favorite activities.

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How can worksite health promotion translate into organizational effectiveness? By broadening the scope to create a culture of well-being, safety and employee engagement. High performing organizations recognize the value of their human capital and invest in their employees to build on their strengths. Typical approaches to wellness programs are short-sighted and not enough to have long-term success; health is only a fraction of a bigger, more complex picture of what impacts organizations. Increased well-being and engagement result from supporting individual intrinsic values and creating a culture that supports employee growth and development. This session will provide a framework for focusing on organizational well-being as a means to individual well-being.

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Participants will be able to:

1.  Understand what impacts productivity and engagement at work.
2.  Describe attributes of engagement and disengagement within organizations and strategies to build higher levels of engagement by focusing on strengths.
3. Identify strategies for understanding and supporting individual intrinsic values within an organization’s culture.

About our Presenter: Dr. Rosie Ward
Dr. Rosie Ward is the Health Management Services Manager with RJF Agencies, where she helps organizations create a healthy and engaged culture by shifting their approach to align health and well-being initiatives with strategic business objectives. She has over 16 years experience in a variety of settings. Dr. Ward holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology,  a Master of Public Health degree in community health education, and Ph.D. in Organization in Management where she focused on organizational culture and transformation, intrinsic motivation and coaching. Dr. Ward is a national speaker, regularly interviewed as an expert for business publications and is a contributing author to the OD in Healthcare Handbook: A Guide for Leaders to be published in the summer of 2010.

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Topic: Worksite Wellness has been designed around incentives to drive participation. But what if we’ve gotten it wrong? Participation and engagement are not the same; engagement is what is critical to long-term success and stems from intrinsic motivation, not incentives. Research shows that incentives and extrinsic rewards at best result in short-term compliance; at worst they weaken intrinsic motivation. Sustainable change and engagement requires a high level of intrinsic motivation and a shift in how people think about themselves and the world around them. It is time to look beyond incentives to shift how people think and increase intrinsic capacity. This session will explore the pitfalls of incentives and extrinsic motivation and present a framework for fostering intrinsic capacity and motivation.

Learning Objectives:
1.  Participants will be able to understand the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the role incentives play with motivation.
2. Participants will be able to understand the difference between intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic values and the role each plays in decision-making and motivation.
3. Participants will learn ways to build change efforts in a way that is less reliant on incentives and more aligned with fostering intrinsic capacity and motivation.

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About our Presenter: Dr. Rosie Ward
Dr. Rosie Ward is the Health Management Services Manager with RJF Agencies, where she helps organizations create a healthy and engaged culture by shifting their approach to align health and well-being initiatives with strategic business objectives. She has over 16 years experience in a variety of settings. Dr. Ward holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology,  a Master of Public Health degree in community health education, and Ph.D. in Organization in Management where she focused on organizational culture and transformation, intrinsic motivation and coaching. Dr. Ward is a national speaker, regularly interviewed as an expert for business publications and is a contributing author to the OD in Healthcare Handbook: A Guide for Leaders to be published in the summer of 2010.

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Learning Objectives:

1) Learn about evidence-based worksite wellness strategies
2) Learn how to initiate a statewide worksite wellness program

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About the presenter: Jon Morgan, MS
Physical Activity Coordinator
Jon Morgan is the Physical Activity Coordinator for the Division of Public Health. In this position Jon is responsible for coordination, development, implementation and evaluation of physical activity interventions and policies related to the Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity Program. Included in these responsibilities is evaluation and dissemination of information to coalitions and other partners about evidence-based interventions and best practices. Jon is the primary author of the WI Worksite Wellness Resource Kit, which has been adopted by 14 other states and a number of organizations. Prior experience includes work as the Director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention and 12 years as a high school physical education and health teacher. Jon has a B.S. and M.S. in Education from the UW-Madison.

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