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CJA Annual Conference 2008
Climb to New Heights ~ Advancing Community Health Solutions

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle, WA
October 23-24, 2008 ~ Seattle, WA

Keynote Speakers

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Associate Dean for Diversity
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Dr. Prothrow-Stith is a nationally recognized public health leader. As a physician working in inner-city hospitals and neighborhood clinics, she recognized violence as a significant public health issue. The typical medical response to patients injured by violence led to her examination of violence as a societal “disease” that could be prevented through implementing effective public health strategies. Appointed in 1987 as Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she established the first Office of Violence Prevention in a state department of public health and expanded treatment programs for AIDS and drug rehabilitation.

As a chief spokesperson for a national movement to prevent violence and a frequent speaker in national media and public forums, Dr. Prothrow-Stith supports the application of rigorous scientific methods to strengthen violence prevention programs. She developed and wrote The Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents, a fore-runner of violence prevention curriculum for schools and communities. She is the author of Deadly Consequences, the first book to present the public health perspective on violence to a mass audience. She has authored and/or co-authored over 80 publications on medical and public health issues. She and co-author Howard Spivak, M.D. offer a blue print for community based violence prevention work in their book, Murder Is No Accident (Jossey Bass Publishers, 2004) and a guide for parents of girls in their book Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice, (Jossey Bass Publishers, 2005).

Innovative in her approach to understanding and preventing violence, she continues to develop programs and nurture partnerships with community-based programs locally, nationally and internaitonally including the Community Violence Prevention Project, the Girls and Violence Project and the criticaly acclaimed Partnerships for Preventing Violence. The latter is a six-part satellite broadcast training providing education, justice and health professionals with a thorough understanding of comprehensive, effective, school-centered violence prevention approaches.

Dr. Prothrow-Stith has participated in several international delegations and conferences. For the French American Foundation, she co-hosted a delegation of French social scientists in New York to investigate children and violence. In October 2002, she hosted a delegation of scholars from Latin American countries at the Harvard School of Public Health for a two-day meeting to learn of the violence prevention work in Boston. Dr. Prothrow-Stith and her family lived in Tanzania for two and half years (August 1998 – January 2001) during her husband’s tenure as U.S. Ambassador where she worked with several local projects with Muhimbilli hospital, WAMATA (an NGO of people living with HIV) and others.

A pioneer and innovator, Dr. Prothrow-Stith continues to develop programs and nurture partnerships with community-based programs locally, nationally and internationally including the critically acclaimed Partnerships for Preventing Violence satellite broadcast training series and an exciting partnership with Florida A & M University to reduce health disparities funded by NIH-National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Dr. Prothrow-Stith currently serves as Associate Dean for Diversity and Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Practice of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Prothrow-Stith, a Harvard Medical School graduate, has received ten honorary doctorates, the 1993 World Health Day Award, the 1989 Secretary of Health and Human Service Award, and an appointment to the National Commission on Crime Control and Prevention.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Rev. Joseph Washington, Board Member CJA
”Committed to Excellence”

Joseph E. Washington is the Executive Director of SharedCare Inc., a community- wide effort to access health care for low income uninsured residents of Horry County, South Carolina. In this capacity he founded a chapter of The First Tee, a youth development program which uses the game of golf as its platform along with its Life Skills Curriculum. He is the former Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Organization for a New Equality in Boston, MA. The organization works to educate low and moderate income people about the financial system and provide fair and equal access to credit and capital, as well as IDA’s and other asset building programs.

Before joining SharedCare Inc. in December 2002, Joseph was the Senior Pastor of the Historic Brooks Memorial United Methodist Church in Queens, New York. He also was the Executive Order and became the first Director of the Boston Minority/Women Business Enterprise Office and the Senior Advisor on Equal Rights to the Mayor of Boston. In the 1980s, he served as the Director of the Speaker’s Bureau for Oxfam America, an international self help development organization working in Asia, Africa and Latin America to fight poverty, health disparities and world hunger.

He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff, The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Ga., and studied law at the University Of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.

Living History Program ~ Shandra L. Terry
”Rosa Parks ~ Celebrating Over 50 Years of the Montgomery Bus Boycott”

Shandra L. Terry, BS, CTM, is a spellbinding award-winning motivational speaker and president of Standing Ovations, Inc. in Vancouver, Washington. She has been captivating audiences since the early age of 5 and is highly sought after by universities, businesses, high schools, civic groups, multicultural organizations, and government agencies.

Fascinating. Humorous. Intriguing. Dynamic. Simply unforgettable.

Shandra L. Terry, the Elks Oratorical Scholarship and Toastmasters International, Inc. national award winner, has a message that is both enthusiastic and inspiring. She has spoken to thousands and has reached the masses through her assertive voice, style and dynamic delivery. Her Toastmasters International renowned award winning speech, "Rosa Parks: A Catalyst in the New World" has been recognized nationally by audiences of all ages and backgrounds and has received reviews by the Ashland Daily Tidings, an Ashland, Oregon newspaper. She has received numerous awards and accolades from colleges and universities throughout the nation and has been recognized by her peers with top awards in speaking.

9:30 am Keynote Speaker

Richard J. Bogue, PhD
Executive Director & Senior Research Fellow
Center for Health Futures at Florida Hospital

Real Accountability & Measured Performance: Improving Community Health

After the Air Force and diverse work experiences, Richard acquired a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Rhetoric and Communication Theory, and a Ph.D. in Human Communication. His graduate studies emphasized understanding human behavior in political, organizational, and family systems, using a variety of methods such as historical/critical analysis, case studies, direct observation, interviewing, surveys and statistical methods. He has taught intercultural, organizational and interpersonal communication, conflict management, and health policy and politics at the University of South Florida, la Universidad de las Americas (Mexico), the University of Texas, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Governors State University (Illinois), and the University of Central Florida.

While working for the American Hospital Association, Richard led national research and demonstration projects on health system improvement. His work focused on community responsive health system improvement. He has also studied such areas as quality measurement, payment and finance, rural hospitals, tax exemption and community benefit, hospital governance and strategy, and vertical and horizontal consolidation. In 1999, he established a consultancy focused on improving governance and collaboration for health system improvement.

Richard now leads the Center for Health Futures at Florida Hospital. The Center develops knowledge to support innovation and decision making for health system improvement at Florida Hospital, a seven-hospital system in Central Florida. His work has most recently focused on five areas for improving the health system. These are excellence in community leadership, nurse and physician engagement, communication and care team coordination, high-value and low-cost approaches to chronic disease management, and cultural competencies.

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