Gnat Line News Briefing, April 17-18, 2008  For more information, contact Diane Murray at murrayd@uga.edu

Gnat Lines News Briefing:
Real Health and Medical News for Working Reporters

Thursday, April 17, 2008

6:00- 7:00 p.m.

Registration and reception

7:00-10:00 p.m.

Dinner

Welcome: E. Culpepper Clark, Dean, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Introduction: Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Keynote: More is Worse in Medicine: How media help drive costs up and quality down – and what we can do to fix it. Shannon Brownlee, Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

Friday, April 18, 2008

6:30-8:15 a.m.

Breakfast

8:15 a.m.

Welcome and introduction: Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

8:30 a.m.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Statistics: How to tell good research from bad. Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, veteran freelance medical investigative journalist and BMJ contributor

10:00-10:30 a.m

Break

10:30 a.m.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Statistics (continued)

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m.

Water, Health and Global Warming: A Nexus of Concern. Ron Carroll, Ph.D., Professor and Director for Science, River Basin Center, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgi

2:15 p.m.

Stress, salt and hypertension. Gregory A. Harshfield, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology and Pediatrics and Director, Georgia Institute for the Prevention of Human Disease and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia

3:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 p.m.

The National Children's Study: Answering tough questions about child health. Frances J. Dunston, M.D., MPH, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine.

4:30 p.m.

Conference wrap-up: Patricia Thomas

4:45 p.m.

Departure

 

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