Conference Agenda
National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable

2nd Annual Meeting - April 10, 11, 12, 2005
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City - Arlington, Virginia

12:30 – 6 P.M

Registration

5:30 P.M.

Welcome - Dr. Deborah Wexler, Chair, NVHR

6:00 P.M.

Plenary Address - Dr. John Ward, Director, Division
Viral Hepatitis, CDC

6:30 P.M.

Reception

7:30 A.M.

Continental Breakfast
Informal Caucuses Meet

8:30 A.M.

Presentation of National Hepatitis Elimination Strategy
How we arrived to this point - Dr. Glenna Crooks, Policy
Advisor to NVHR

9:15 A.M.

Ground rules for round robin workgroup review of the National
Hepatitis Elimination Strategy - Dr. Glenna Crooks

9:30 A.M.

Break

10:00 A.M.

Workgroups Convene
Goal 1 Workgroup - TBA
Goal 2 Workgroup - TBA
Goal 3 Workgroup - TBA
Goal 4 Workgroup - TBA
Goal 5 Workgroup - TBA

12:30 P.M.

Working Lunch

1:00 P.M.

Workgroups Reconvene - Delegates move to second workgroup

3:00 P.M.

Break

3:30 P.M.

Workgroups Reconvene - Delegates move to third workgroup

5:30 P.M.

Adjourn… Dinner on your own

7:30 A.M.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 A.M.

Workgroups Reconvene - Delegates move to 4th workgroup

10:00 A.M.

Break

10:30 A.M.

Workgroups Reconvene - Delegates move to 5th workgroup
Everyone should have participated in all 5 workgroups following this session.

12:30 P.M.

Working Lunch: Plenary Session - Reports from the workgroups.
Goal 1 - Reporter TBA
Goal 2 - Reporter TBA
Goal 3 - Reporter TBA
Goal 4 - Reporter TBA
Goal 5 - Reporter TBA

2:30 P.M.

Conference Wrap Up - Dr. Deborah Wexler

3:00 P.M.

Adjourn

Dr. John Ward is the Director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis (DVH) in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, which is part of the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases. Prior to accepting that position, Dr. Ward had served as Editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and as Acting Director of the Division of Scientific Communications in the proposed National Center for Health Marketing, which is part of the Coordinating Center for Health Information and Service.

Dr. Ward received his M.D. from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama Hospitals. He received postgraduate training in tropical medicine at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, in pediatric immunology at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and in infectious diseases as a CDC assignee at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He joined CDC in 1984 as an EIS officer in the Epidemiology Section of what was then known as the AIDS Activity, NCID. He remained in CDC’s evolving AIDS program through 1998, working on many high profile investigations and serving in various leadership positions including section chief and then later branch chief of the Surveillance Branch in the Division of HIV/AIDS, NCID. He became Editor of the MMWR in 1998.

The recipient of numerous CDC and PHS awards, Dr. Ward is a member of the Emory University School of Medicine Clinical Faculty and is active on many public health planning and steering committees. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 scientific publications and serves as a peer reviewer for numerous journals including the American Journal of Public Health, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine.