Save the Date - CDC's Grand Rounds Presents “Million Hearts: Preventing A Million Heart Attacks and Strokes: A Turning Point for Impact,” on Tuesday, September 16, at 1 p.m. (EST).

Save the Date

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

“Million Hearts: Preventing A Million Heart Attacks and Strokes:

A Turning Point for Impact”

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EST

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium

Roybal Campus

Presented By:

Janet Wright, MD  

Executive Director, Million Hearts®,

Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

“Million Hearts: Where We Are and Where We Need To Go”

Andrew Tremblay, MD

Chair, Department of Primary Care

Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock

Keene, New Hampshire

“Success in Blood Pressure Control”

Patricia P. Henley, MEd

Director, Office of Tobacco Prevention

Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program

Division of Prevention and Wellness

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

“Tobacco Use Prevention in Massachusetts”

Patricia L. Cummings, MPH, PhD

Program Manager, Sodium Reduction Initiative Epidemiologist 

Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

“Partnerships to Improve Cardiovascular Health through Sodium Reduction in Los Angeles County”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds 

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

For CDC staff unable to attend the event:  

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision. To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

  

For non-CDC staff or those outside the CDC firewall:  

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

  

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team. Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

   

For questions about this Grand Rounds topic: Feel free to e-mail your questions before or during the session.