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From:	IN%"minhlth@family.hampshire.edu"  9-FEB-1995 16:23:15.91
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Subj:	Minority Health Conference in Chapel Hill, NC


17th Annual Minority Health Conference

HEALTHY PEOPLE OF COLOR 2000:  ARE WE ON TRACK?

Thursday, February 16, 1995:  12 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Friday, February 17, 1995:  8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Where:  The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education
        Center, Chapel Hill, NC

************** DR. DAVID SATCHER, CDC, KEYNOTE SPEAKER ********



Pre-Register by Internet:  OCE@SOPHIA.SPH.UNC.EDU
             by phone:  919-966-4032

Students, UNC system, faculty and staff, and senior citizens (>60)
  may attend the program free of charge.

We welcome the participation of everyone!  Please come out and join
us for an informative conference!

CALENDAR:

Thursday, February 16, 1995

12:00 p.m. Registration
1:00       Welcome and Introduction
1:15       Opening Session:  Bill Jenkins, PhD, Epidemiologist, CDC
2:30       Break
2:45       Future of Health Professionals Panel
           Carolyn Mayo, PhD, Director, NC Health Careers
              Access Program
           Ronny Bell, PhD, Research Fellow, Bowman Gray 
              School of Medicine
           Mark White, MPH, International Development Intern, USAID
           LaHoma Smith-Romocki, MPH, Associate Director,
              US AIDS Prevention, Family Health International
4:15       Reception and Poster Presentations
5:30       Adjourn


Friday, February 17, 1995

8:00 a.m.  Registration
8:30       Introduction
8:45       Opening Session:  Henry Montes, MPH, Associate
                             Director for Minority Health, CDC
9:30       CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
           -Environmental Health:  Bailus Walker, Jr., PhD,
            Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
            and Assoc. Dir. for Environmental and Occup Cancer,
            Howard Univesity College of Medicine

           -Mental Health:  Pearl Shelby, Triangle Area
            African American Breast Cancer Support Group

           -Coronary Heart Disease:  Ronny Bell, PhD, Research
            Fellow

           -Clinical Preventive Services:  Ronald Wyatt, MD,
            Medical Director, Huntsville Medical Center

10:30     Break

10:45     CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
	  -Occupational Health and Safety:  Bernice Sessoms,
           Executive Director, Center for Women's Economic
           Alternatives

          -Mental Health:  James Carter, MD, Pyschiatrist,
           Duke Medical Center
        
          -Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Native American
           Community:  Joseph Bell, MD

          -Coronary Heart Disease/Hypertension:  Alan Hinderliter, MD
           Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC

11:45     Lunch

1:00 p.m. Remarks:  Michel Ibrahim, MD; Paul Hardin, JD;
                    Garland Hershey, DDS

1:15 !!!  KEYNOTE SPEAKER  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
          ********     DR. DAVID SATCHER       ***********
          ********     Centers for Disease     ***********
          ********     Control and Prevention  ***********
          ************************************************

2:15      Break

2:30      Public Health Forum
          Delton Atkinson, MPH, Dir, NC State Center for Health
             Statistics
          Elaine Hart-Brothers, MD, PI, Community Health 
             Coalition Project
4:00      Adjourn