Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit - Registration closes March 26!

Registration closes on Tuesday, March 26 at Midnight, CST for the 2013 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit: Changing Systems, Changing Lives on April 9-10, 2013 in Madison, Wis. This event will address system-level barriers to improving health literacy, with the goal of addressing health care system goals, such as improving quality and patient satisfaction outcomes.

Keynote presenters include: Byron Pitts of CBS News/60 Minutes and Dr. Zorba Paster of National Public Radio's "Zorba Paster: On Your Health". We will also feature more than 25 breakout session presenters on topics ranging from how to simplify written information to how to obtain senior level support for health literacy initiatives.

The pre-Summit meeting, Starting and Growing a Health Literacy Coalition: Tools to Move Forward, will provide an opportunity for participants to engage in facilitated small group discussions focused on how to begin and sustain health literacy coalitions and initiatives - at the local, state and regional levels. Later in the afternoon we will shift our attention to a national health literacy professional association. What would this look like and what are the attributes you would want to see in a professional association? Come add your ideas as to how such a professional association may help to move the rapidly growing field of health literacy forward.

For more information or to register, please visit: http://ow.ly/hJgCV.

This event is co-presented by Health Literacy Wisconsin, a division of Wisconsin Literacy, Inc. and the Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN).

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Here is some more information on the topics and presentaters you will see at the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit. A full agenda is available here.

Health Literacy and the Affordable Care Act
- Bonnie Braun, PhD, Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health

Health Literate Communication Training for Health Care Workers
- Cliff Coleman, MD, MPH, Oregon Health & Science University

Incorporating Health Literacy Into the Adult Literacy Environment
- Marsha Connet, Wisconsin Literacy, Inc.

Help Me Understand: A Patient’s Perspective
- Featuring a panel of 4-5 adult literacy students
- Facilitated by Beth Gaytan, Health Literacy Director, Literacy Network


Panel Discussion on Obtaining Senior Level Support for Health Literacy
-    Greg Simmons, MA, President & CEO, MetaStar, Inc.
-    Ed Millermiear, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Bellin Health
-    Geof Swain, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, City of Milwaukee Health Department and Professor, UW School of Medicine & Public Health
-    Joe Endrizzi, MD, Gundersen Lutheran Health System

We're looking forward to seeing colleagues from around the country here in Madison!

 

Jeff

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