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Colorado Business Group on Health Conferences


COLORADO CULTURE OF HEALTH™:  A Business Approach to Cutting the Fat
October 30, 2007      Adams Mark Hotel in Denver, CO

7:30 – 9:00 Executive Leadership Breakfast
Goals: Leadership by Example and a Corporate Call to Action

• Introduction: Tom Mustin, CBS4 News Anchor
Welcome: James Hill, PhD, Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission; and, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Building a Culture of Health: Barbara O’Brien, Lieutenant Governor, Chair, Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission
Quad/Graphics Cuts the Fat Via Value-based Benefit Design:
Raymond Zastrow, MD, Associate Corporate Medical Director, QuadMed
What Wellness Brings to Your Bottom Line: David Hunnicut, PhD, President, WELCOA
• Call to Action – Executive Commitment:
Tom Clark, Executive VP, Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation

9:30 – 11:45

General Session
Fixing the Problem:
Strategies & Tactics

Introduction: Tom Mustin, CBS4 News Anchor

Welcome – Health & Wellness in Colorado and Metro Denver: Supporting a Culture of Healthy Eating and Active Living: Barbara O’Brien, Lieutenant Governor, Chair, Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission & Tom Clark, Executive VP, Metro Denver Economic Corporation

America on the Move: Helen Thompson, Director, America on the Move

Fit 4 Colorado: CBS4’s Commitment to Improving the Health of Our Community: Elaine Torres, Manager of Community Affairs, CBS4

The Business Case for Wellness: Thomas Parry,PhD, President, Integrated Benefits Institute

12:30 - 4:00
Presentations
Mark Cauthen, Risk Supervisor, Benefits and Wellness,
City of Colorado Springs
Positive Results with Wellness and Enhanced Disease Management Programs
Patti Clavier, Global Team Leader for HPM,
Intel Corporation

Health & Wellness to a Global Workforce
Ken Detweiler, Director, Risk Related Activities,
Colorado Springs, School District #11
An Employer’s Approach to Obesity

David Hunnicutt, PhD, President
WELCOA
The Benchmarks of America’s Healthiest Companies: Business as Unusual

Christopher Still, DO, FACN, FACP, Director
Center for Nutrition & Weight Management, Geisinger Health Care System
Advances in the Understanding & Treatment of Morbid Obesity


Raymond Turner, Esq.,
Of Counsel, Jackson Lewis, LLP
The Emerging Law of Wellness Programs: When Discrimination and Medical Inquiries are Permissible


 

Health Plans as Partners: Medical Directors Panel A

David Brody, MD
Denver Health Medical Plan
Health Plan and Employer Health Improvement Initiatives

 

Louis Dickey, MD
Aetna, Inc.
A Business Approach to Cutting Fat


Pierre Malek, MD
Great-West Health
Health Plans As Partners
  Health Plans as Partners: Medical Directors Panel B
  Art Jones, MD
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Jacqueline Stiff, MD
UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealth Wellness
  William Wright, MD
Colorado Permanente Medical Group
Underwriters
We gratefully acknowledge underwriters of the Colorado Culture of Health™
Platinum:
sanofi-aventis
Gold:
Aetna, Lockton, Merck, Pfizer
Silver:
Allergan, AstraZeneca, Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Centura, CIGNA, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Wyeth
Friends:
Kaiser Permanente, Rocky Mountain Health Plans