May 22, 2009
Final Program
1st International Symposium on Understanding Health Benefits and
Risks: Empowering Patients and Citizens
Charles Commons Conference Center
Johns Hopkins University
NW Corner of 33rd and St. Paul Streets
Baltimore, Maryland
May 28, 2009
7:30-8:00: Continental Breakfast (Salon B)
Session 1 Chair/Erik Rifkin (Salon C)
8:00-8:45: Shannon Brownlee, Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation.
Overtreated: Why Too Much Care is as Bad as Too Little.
8:45-9:30: Edward Bouwer, PhD; Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and
Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Foundations for the Illusion of
Certainty Pertaining to Health Risks and Benefits.
9:30-10:15: Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., PhD; President, Foundation for Informed Medical
Decision Making. Uninformed Patient Choice: The American Way of Making Medical
Decisions.
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15: Avrum Bluming, MD; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University Southern
California. Judgment Day: What Do We Know About HRT? What Should We Know?
11:15-12:00: Marie Nolan, PhD; Assoc. Professor, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins
University. Differences in Family and Financial Stress and the Decision to Donate in Black and
White Living Renal Donors.
12:00-1:00
Lunch (Salon B)
Session 2 Chair/Edward Bouwer (Salon C)
1:00-1:45: Robert Steiner, MD; Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine,
Director of Transplant Nephrology UCSD Medical Center. A Beach Head on an Untamed
Shore – A Physician-Ethicist Addresses Living Kidney Donor Counseling.
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May 22, 2009
1:45-2:30: Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, MD, MSc, PhD; Professor and Chair in Lifecourse
Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College. Talking
About your Lifetime Risk of Disease.
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:30: Karl S. Bourdeau, JD; Principal, Beveridge & Diamond, PC. The Evolution of
the Assessment of Health and Environmental Risks by the U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
3:30-4:15: Erik Rifkin, PhD, President, Rifkin and Associates. Understanding the Concept of
Acceptable Health Risks and Benefits.
4:15-5:00: Alan Goldhammer, PhD; Vice President Scientific & Regulatory Affairs,
PhRMA. Communicating Benefit and Risk: A View from the Pharmaceutical Industry.
5:00
Adjourn
May 29, 2009
7:30-8:00: Continental Breakfast (Salon B)
Session 3 Chair/Sandra Newman (Salon C)
8:00-8:45: Adam Voiland; Health and Medicine Reporter, US News and World Report.
How and Why Too Much Health Journalism Lead the Public Astray: Case Studies from a
Former Medical Reporter.
8:45-9:30: David Ropeik, PhD; Instructor Harvard University, Consultant in Risk
Communication. The Psychometric Paradigm Meets the Real World. A View on Risk
Perception Psychology and Risk Communication from a Former Journalist.
9:30-10:15: Kevin J. Soden, MD; Host, Healthline and Whole Body Health, Retirement
Living TV Network and Adjunct Professor, University of Florida College of
Medicine. Medical Journalism: A Look Inside the Television Tent.
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15: Stephen Strauss; Science Writer (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation),
Journalist, and Author. The Protestant Reformation in Health Communication: Why Science
Needs A Standard Way To Talk To Non-Scientists.
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May 22, 2009
11:15-12:00: Sandra Newman, PhD; Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins
University and Amanda Beacom, Ph.D. Student; Annenberg School of Communications,
Univ. of Southern California. Communicating Health Information to Disadvantaged Patients.
12:00-1:00
Lunch (Salon B)
Session 4 Chair/Andrew Lazris, MD; Faculty, University of Maryland, Division
of Geriatric Medicine (Salon C)
1:00-1:45: Eugenio Machado, MD; Senior Medical Director, Riderwood, Erikson
Retirement Communities. Decision Making in Geriatrics.
1:45-3:30: Panel on empowering geriatric patients to determine acceptable health risks and
benefits (Andrew Lazris, Marie Nolan, Eugenio Machada, and Erik Rifkin)
Adjourn – 3:30
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