"Comprehensive overrviews on major happenings in the field of behavioral health and wellness. Presenters: Experienced & Knowledgeable!"
— Mary Dougherty-Hunt, Senior Vice President, Carebridge Corporation
"Excellent combination of clinical information and policy issues,"
— David J. McDowell, PhD, Medical Director, Unum Provident
"Mix of employers and providers produced incredible diversity;"
"discussion during presenteeism panel was excellent because of feedback loop with audience"
— Herb Ozer, Director of Operations, Providence Health & Services
"Top leaders in the field"
— Kirsten Tierney, Director of Wellness, Kisco Senior Living
"Great job putting this conference together. I will be back next year"
— Kari Kerschke, Director of Business Development, Child & Family Consultants
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
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7:15 am
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8:15 am
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8:30 am
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- Demonstrate how to follow through and incorporate positive habits,
lifestyle choices and behaviors into daily routines
- Reveal significant changes across quarters on participants’ perceptions of improvement of significant change: stress relief, exercise, energy,
decreased risk factor, productivity, overall health, follow through on
goals, beliefs and attitudes
- Increase job satisfaction, retention, and effectiveness when employees feel
engaged, empowered, healthy and connected
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9:30 am
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- Examine new paradigms of wellness theory, specifically positive psychology and happiness research and practice that are essential to successful health promotion wellness and programming.
- Explore GNP (Gross National Happiness Policy)
- Review resilience and protective factors that supplement economic indicators utilized to describe well-being
- Explore data from a strength based vs. risk based strategy to measure health and productivity management to determine economic return
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10:30 am -
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
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- Describe a self assessment tool rolled out to Motorola and Conoco wellness participants
- Discuss the bio psychosocial model relationship between rates of depression and social connectedness with relapse in wellness weight and fitness programs
- Demonstrate how helping people to find what gives them joy leads to health
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1:00 pm -
2:00 pm
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- Addiction is a burden to all who live with or pay for the health care of the chemically-dependent.
- Appropriate treatment of chemical dependence is critical to purchasers as well as consumers of healthcare, regardless of the sources of funding for health care.
- Health benefit design influences outcomes of chemically-dependent plan enrollees. Common benefit design strategies include care management and disease management, and to a lesser extent, worksite wellness programs.
- Such strategies yield valuable data that can help purchasers identify opportunities to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care.
- Informatics and Decision Support Systems (i.e. data tools) are effective, yet underutilized tools for the management and allocation of health care resources and improvement of patient outcomes.
- This panel explores the use of data tools to improve the management and allocation of health care resources toward the appropriate treatment of chemical dependence.
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2:00 pm -
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm -
3:30 pm
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- What are the benefits to employers of a carve out specialty mental health service?
- Are carve out services more expensive than integrated services?
- How should an employer choose a carve out vs an integrated service?
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3:30 pm -
5:00 pm
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- Discuss how long-term psychiatric disabilities like treatment-resistant
depression continues to financially burden the public health system
- Show the cost effectiveness of using neuromodulation to treat chronic,
psychiatric disorders, including treatment-resistant depression
- Determine the capability of Human Resources to reduce work factors that aggravate mental health disability
- Assess EAP vendor's value in improving mental health in the work place
- Create management and environmental changes to reduce EAP costs
- Implement a strategic plan to address training, performance standards and positive strategies to reduce disability causing scenarios
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Ed Muldoon
Consultant and Project Director, Taskforce on Disability and Return to Work
Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
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William Yang, MD, MPH
Health Management Physician
The Coca Cola Company
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David Whitehouse, MD, MBA
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
United Behavioral Health
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Lawrence J. Cohen, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP, FCCP
Professor Pharmacotherapy, Washington State University College of Pharmacy
Assistant Director for Psychopharmacology Research and Training
WIMIRT (Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training)
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5:00 pm -
6:30 pm
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