2010 Delaware Health Sciences Alliance Research Conference

Tuesday May 4, 2010
Ammon Medical Education Building
Christiana Care Health System

Please use Registration Link below to register and submit your Poster/Abstract Title

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  • 7:30 am Registration and Breakfast
  • 8:00 am Conference Welcome - Robert Laskowski, CCHS
  • 8:10 am Chrysler Site - Patrick Harker, UD
  • 8:15 am Newark Clinical Campus - Robert Barchi, TJU
  • 8:20 am Role of Clinical Sites in Research - Tom Ferry, Nemours
  • 8:25 am DHSA Welcome - Kathleen Matt, DHSA
  • 8:30 am State Welcome - Governor Jack Markell (invited)
  • 8:45 am Coffee Break
  • 9:15 am Keynote Address "Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care" - John Nance
  • 10:00 am Audience Response and Discussion
  • 10:15 am Individual Breakout Sessions
    • Charge: Improve ways to enhance translational research across the DHSA Institutions
    • Session A - Cancer - Petrelli (CCHS), Rajasekaran (Nemours)
    • Session B - Cardiovascular - Naik (UD), Koch (TJU)
    • Session C - Neurosciences - Rosenwasser (TJU), Harrington (DSU)
    • Session D - Rehabilitation Sciences - Snyder-Mackler (UD), Miller (Nemours)
    • Session E - Bioinformatics - Wu (UD), London (TJU)
    • Session F - Outcomes & Community Research - Jurkovitz (CCHS), Myers (TJU)
  • 12:15 pm Lunch (Heavy Hors D'Oeuvres in Lobby) Poster Session in Lobby
  • 1:30 pm Forum Talk "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Comparative Effectiveness Research"- Michael Lauer, Associate Director, NHLBI
  • 2:15 am Audience Response and Discussion
  • 2:30 pm Feedback from Individual Breakout Sessions
  • 3:30 pm Poster Session and Reception
  • 5:00 pm Conference Adjourned

CONFERENCE MEDIA

3:16 p.m., April 8, 2009----Podcasts of the "Stronger Health-Based Partnerships" conference, held March 24 in Clayton Hall, are now available at [www.udel.edu/podcast/].

The one-day conference brought together leaders in health education, research and services with government, business and community leaders to focus on the state and national challenges to providing outstanding health care.

The following podcasts are available:

Conference welcome by UD President Patrick Harker, keynote address by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, and a video on the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=209]

Panel A: The Delaware Health Sciences Alliance
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=211]

Panel B: The Alliance at Work: Implementing First-Class Health Research and Service:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=213]

Keynote address by Newt Gingrich:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=215]

Panel C: Providing High-Quality, Affordable and Accessible Services:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=217]

Future of Health Policy in a Time of Transition, with Racquel Russell, lead adviser on health policy and human services issues for U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=219]

Panel D: National and State Innovations: Quality, Costs and Accessibiity of Services:
[http://www.ums.udel.edu/podcast/watch?c=221]

RECENT PRESS

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UD health sciences dean to lead partnership programs
December 14, 2009--Kathy Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware, has been appointed to leadership positions in two partnership programs that she sees as key to promoting health research and education in Delaware.
Older adults with cancer, caregivers focus of $600,000 research grant
Dec. 11, 2009--A team that includes two researchers from the University of Delaware's School of Nursing -- Paula Klemm, professor of nursing, and Veronica Rempusheski, the Jeanne K. Buxbaum Chair of Nursing Science -- has been awarded a two-year, $600,000 grant to conduct research aimed at supporting older adults affected by cancer and their caregivers in Delaware.
DHSA takes center stage at UD Trustees meeting
December 9, 2009--The University of Delaware's Board of Trustees got a firsthand look at the largest single property acquisition in the history of the institution during its semiannual meeting, held Tuesday, Dec. 8, at the former Chrysler assembly plant on South College Avenue in Newark.
Christiana Care's Dr. Petrelli to share cancer success story at national surgeons' conference
November 11, 2009--Christiana Care's pioneering role in significantly reducing Delaware's cancer rate will be in the national spotlight at a prestigious medical conference.