Seq #3 Wednesday, 10 March 2004
2:00 PM-4:00 PM Hawaii Convention Center 316-A, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored
Achieving Healthy People 2010 Objectives: Oral Cancer

Sponsored by: Behavioral Sciences, IADR ad hoc Committee on Tobacco
Description: Healthy People 2010 represents the third time that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed 10-year health objectives for the Nation. Healthy People 2010 has two overarching goals: to increase the quality and years of healthy life and to eliminate health disparities. The Oral Health focus area contains 17 objectives. The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and HHS signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide a framework for cooperation to help achieve selected Healthy People 2010 oral health objectives. The AADR specifically identified the oral cancer objectives as one content area they wished to help achieve. The purpose of the symposium is to provide background on Healthy People 2010 with a focus on the oral cancer objectives, as well as about new innovative research designed to achieve these objectives. Because oral cancers are a universal problem, yet often ignored, international perspectives will be provided on how global initiatives might impact on achieving U. S. oral cancer objectives. The symposium is supported by NIDCR, NCI, and Procter & Gamble
Chairperson: K.J. ANUSAVICE
 
  2:00 PM Chair's Opening Remarks
0003  2:05 PM Achieving Healthy People 2010 Objectives: Challenges and Opportunities
A.M. HOROWITZ, NIDCR/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
  2:15 PM Population-based Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Oral Cancer in the U.S.
A.I. ISMAIL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  2:35 PM Opportunistic Screening for Oral Cancer in General Dental Practice
M.C. DOWNER, University College London, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
  2:55 PM Global Initiatives and their Impact on National Objectives
P.E. PETERSEN, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
  3:15 PM Discussant # 1
J.F. KERNER, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
  3:25 PM Discussant # 2
B.R. HILL, The Oral Cancer Foundation, Newport Beach, CA, USA
  3:35 PM Discussion

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