PAN Summit 2012: Putting Prevention to Work

WHEN: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Please register by February 15, 2012

TIME: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm (Registration begins at 8:00)

WHERE: Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine

DESCRIPTION: To explore the future of obesity prevention through the examination of cost effective strategies and local CPPW successes.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Justin Trogdon, RTI

Justin G. Trogdon is a health economist in RTI's Public Health Economics Program. His current research agenda includes program evaluation and cost-effectiveness studies, including the use of Web-based cost collection tools; methods for estimating the cost of disease with applications in obesity, tobacco, chronic disease, and cancer; systems modeling of cardiovascular disease; and the impact of social networks on obesity. Dr. Trogdon has managed projects in these topic areas for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, and American Heart Association. His technical expertise includes a variety of econometric and statistical methods. He has authored many publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Circulation, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Health Services Research, American Journal of Public Health, Medical Care, International Economic Review, and Journal of Labor Economics. Before joining RTI, he was an assistant professor in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and he worked in the Duke University Center for Health Policy, Law and Management.

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PAN Summit 2012: Putting Prevention to Work