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- 8:00 AM -
- 5:00 PM
- CityMatCH DaTA Institute Graduation and Leadership Workshop
- 12:00 PM -
- 5:30 PM
- CityMatCH Board of Directors' Meeting
- 1:00 PM -
- 5:00 PM
- Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Workshop Part I: Introduction to PPOR
- 7:00 AM -
- 5:00 PM
- Registration Open
- 7:00 AM -
- 8:30 AM
- Exhibitors' Breakfast
- 8:30 AM -
- 9:00 AM
- Conference Welcome
- 9:00 AM -
- 10:00 AM
Plenary I - Building Urban MCH Leadership: Calling All Leaders
Speaker:
Magda G. Peck, ScD
Founder and Senior Advisor, CityMatCH
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
- 10:30 AM -
- 11:45 AM
- Promising Practice Sessions: A
Innovative Approaches to Screen School Populations for Sexually Transmitted Infections ![]()
Paritosh Kaul, MD
Drumming to a Healthy Beat: Addressing Overweight in an Urban 'Tween Population ![]()
Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, MD, MPH
Lateesa Posey-Edwards, MSN, CPNP
The Youth Development Institute of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion: A Best Practice, Research-Based Public Health Intervention for Reducing Drug Usage and Experimentation Among Urban Youth (ages 12-18) ![]()
Yvonne Anthony, PhD, MBA, MHA
Building a Comprehensive Community Collaboration Model: Rural and Urban Models that Serve to Eliminate Infant Mortality ![]()
Dannai Harriel, BA
Marlene Kolosky, BS
Partnering with Community Involvement to Improve Health: Using Lay Health Educators to Improve Asthma Management among African-American Children in Chicago ![]()
DeShuna Dickens, MPH, AE-C
Successes and Challenges in Implementing a Broad-based Partnership to Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome in San Mateo County, California ![]()
Anand Chabra, MD, MPH, FACPM
Jane Smithson, JD
Liberty City Outreach Initiative - Three Years Later ![]()
Trecia Matthews Hosein, MPH
Centering Pregnancy - Group Prenatal Care: How Providing Funds, Training, and Support for Sites is Making a Difference in the Lives of Texas Families ![]()
Amy Johnson-Rubio, MPA
Promoting Preconception Healthy Lifestyle Changes through "Small Change," a Program for Home-Visiting Programs and Other Health Care Providers ![]()
Kathryn K. Hill, MEd
Patricia Handel, BSN, MSN
Margaret Shank, BSN, MSN
Integrating Family Planning Services into an STD Clinic Setting ![]()
Judith C. Shlay, MD, MSPH
Increasing Folic Acid Awareness and Knowledge among Medical Students in Arizona ![]()
Diane Zipley, MS
Healthy Births Initiative ![]()
Gwendolynne Y. Cole, BS
Love Thy Neighbor ![]()
Marie James, BSN, MS
"Mommy and Me" Pregnancy Education Classes ![]()
Janine Lewis, MPH, PhD (c)
Director, Health Promotions Department
Westside Health Authority
- 12:00 PM -
- 1:30 PM
Keynote Luncheon - Connecting Environments to MCH: Why Good Community Design is Bettern than an Apple a Day
Speaker:
Richard L. Jackson, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor
College of Environmental Design and
School of Public Health
University of Californa, Berkeley
- 1:30 PM -
- 3:30 PM
- Skills-Building Workshops
Speakers:
Juan Acuña, MD, MSc
Medical Epidemiologist and MCH EPI Team Leader
Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael D. Kogan, PhD
Director, Office of Data and Program Development
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Mathew Christensen, MS, PhD
MCH Epidemiologist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Vickie Thomson, MA, PhD Candidate
Program Manager, Newborn Screening
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Speaker:
Candace Rutt, PhD
Health Psychologist
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speakers:
Hani Atrash, MD, MPH
Associate Director for Program Development
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne Rossier Markus, JD, PhD, MHS
Associate Research Professor
Department of Health Policy
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Joan Henneberry, MS
Executive Director
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing
Speakers:
Ameena Batada, MPH, DrPH
Nutrition Policy Fellow
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Stephen Gardner, JD
Director of Litigation
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Speakers:
Joan Eden, MS
Former Deputy Director
Prevention Services Division
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Barbara Ritchen, BSN, MA
Consultant, Former Director
Adolescent Health Program
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- 3:30 PM -
- 5:00 PM
- CityMatCH Membership Meeting & Peer Poster Review
- 6:00 PM -
- 9:00 PM
Friends of CityMatCH Dinner
Join the famous CityMatCH Band for an evening of entertainment, camaraderie, and good food!
- 7:00 AM -
- 8:00 AM
- Breakfast
- 8:00 AM -
- 9:00 AM
Federal Focus
Speakers:
Peter C. van Dyck, MS, MD, MPH
Associate Administrator
Maternal & Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Samuel F. Posner, PhD
Science Officer and Associate Director for Science
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 9:00 AM -
- 10:00 AM
Plenary II - Adolescent Health Disparities and the Environment: Improving Outcomes for Future Generations
Speaker:
Antronette Yancey, MD, MPH
Associate Professor and DrPH Program Director
Department of Health Services
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health
- 10:15 AM -
- 12:15 PM
- World Café
- 12:30 PM -
- 1:45 PM
- 2007 CityMatCH Conference Awards Luncheon
- 2:00 PM -
- 3:15 PM
- Action Breakouts: A
Speakers:
Juan Acuña, MD, MSc
Medical Epidemiologist and MCH EPI Team Leader
Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael D. Kogan, PhD
Director, Office of Data and Program Development
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Speaker:
Judith A. Kahn, MSW
Executive Director
Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
Speaker:
Christina Little, PhD
Senior Instructor
Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment
of Child Abuse and Neglect
Department of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Speakers:
Laura D. Kavanagh, MPP
Training Branch Chief
Division of Research, Training and Education
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Kathy Kennedy, DrPH, MA
Director, Regional Institute for Health & Environmental Leadership
Associate Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine
University of Denver
Speaker:
Candace Rutt, PhD
Health Psychologist
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 3:30 PM -
- 4:45 PM
- Action Breakouts: B
Speakers:
Juan Acuña, MD, MScMedical Epidemiologist and MCH EPI Team Leader
Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael D. Kogan, PhD
Director, Office of Data and Program Development
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
Speakers:
Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Medical Director
The Kempe Center Postpartum Depression Intervention Program
Speaker:
Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd
Executive Director
Boston Public Health Commission
Speaker:
Carol Woltring, MPH
Executive Director
Center for Health Leadership and Practice
Public Health Institute
- 5:00 PM -
- 7:00 PM
- "Spotlight on Colorado" Networking Reception
- 7:00 AM -
- 8:00 AM
- Breakfast
- 8:00 AM -
- 9:30 AM
Plenary III - Building the Best Environments for Vulnerable Families and Children: The Post-Katrina Story
Speakers:
Gina Payton Lagarde, MD, MBA
Child Health Medical Director
Maternal & Child Health Program
Louisiana Office of Public Health
Joia Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG
Medical Director
Healthy Start Program (Office of Health Policy)
City of New Orleans Health Department
Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, DDiv, MPH
Director for the Center for Community Health & Well-Being
Home of the Birthing Project
- 9:30 AM -
- 10:00 AM
- Break (optional check-out)
- 10:00 AM -
- 11:15 AM
- Promising Practice Sessions: B
Effective and Promising Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy: Teen Outreach Program (TOP) ![]()
Kristen Tertzakian, BA
Katherine Suellentrop, MPH
Keeping It Real - "Do the Right Thing!" ![]()
Kimberly Alston, MA, HSM
Jay Whitmore, MSW
Angela Rhodes, BS
Plain Talk ![]()
Tammi Fleming, MPH, CHES
Lorelei Walters, MA
Plain Talk: Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy and STD Prevention through Community Involvement ![]()
Tasha Toby, MPH
Los Angeles County Healthy Weight for Women of Reproductive Age Action Learning Collaborative - Building Local Capacity to Help Women Achieve Healthy Weight ![]()
Eleanor P. Long, MSPH
Healthy Weight in Women Action Learning Collaborative: Douglas County, NE ![]()
Mary Balluff, MS, RD
Brenda Thompson, MPH
The Healthy Weight Action Learning Collaborative: Utah's ALC Project ![]()
Audrey Stevenson, MPH, MSN, BSN
Iliana MacDonald, MPA, BSN
Vision, Hearing, Dental, and Developmental Screening for Children in Child Care Settings ![]()
Sarah Scully, MPH
Child Health Liaison Program ![]()
Sarah Scully, MPH
Promoting Maternal Child Health by Teaching Parents to Calm Fussy, Crying Infants ![]()
Mary Adler, RN, CPNP
Forgotten Families: Addressing the needs of parents and children impacted by incarceration ![]()
Dannai Harriel, BA
Perinatal Depression: Building Bridges to Community Treatment ![]()
Marilyn Benjamin, RN, MSN
Planning Pennsylvania's Perinatal Depression Public Awareness Campaign
Sarah Gibbons, MSS, MLSP
Download Presentation I, II ![]()
Soul Food for Your Baby: A Promising Approach to Breastfeeding Barriers among African Americans ![]()
Elizabeth Gant, MPH, MA
"Walk and Tal" Results of the St. Petersburg, Florida Outreach Women's Health Questionnaire ![]()
Angela Horvath, PhD
Healthy Generations: Volunteer Health Educators in the African-American Community ![]()
Linda Short Archer, RN, MSN
Brenda Burnett, RN, MSN
- 11:30 AM -
- 12:00 PM
Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony will feature an inspirational presentation of poetry and music performed by Dr. Antronette Yancey, Ciro Hurtado, and Cynthia Harding.
- 1:30 PM -
- 5:30 PM
- Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Workshop Part II: Advanced PPOR
- 1:30 PM -
- 5:30 PM
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention Training TBD





