What events and publications will feature the Acting Surgeon General?Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H., Acting Surgeon General will be speaking at the following events:
Monday, December 8, 2008 - Speaker & Chair, Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health Meeting
- Focus: Health consequences of tobacco
- Location: Washington, DC
Tuesday - Wednesday, December 9-10, 2008 - Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future National Tour
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Hartford, CT
Friday, December 12, 2008 - Speaker, YMCA Activate America: Pioneering Healthier Communities Conference
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Arlington, VA
Thursday, January 6, 2009 - Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future National Tour
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Monday, January 12, 2009 - Speaker, Family Healthy History Press Conference
- Focus: Family Health History
- Location: Washington, DC
Wednesday - Thursday, January 14-15, 2009 - Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Hispanic-Latino Roundtable and Media Event
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Miami and Tampa, FL
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - Keynote, Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis Annual Meeting
- Focus: Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Location: Washington, DC
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - Speaker, Cultivating a Healthy Population: the Intersection of Nutrition, Health and Food Science Research Symposium
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Friday, January 30, 2009 - Keynote, North American Thrombosis Forum, Special Pulmonary Embolism Symposium
- Focus: Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Location: Roxbury Crossing, MA
Back to December Events
Monday - Friday, February 9-13, 2009 - Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future National Tour: Region 9
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: San Joaquin Valley, CA and Honolulu, HI
Monday - Wednesday, February 9-13, 2009 - Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future National Tour: Atlanta
- Focus: Childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Atlanta, GA
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - Preventing Underage Drinking State Visit: Maryland
- Focus: Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
- Location: Annapolis, MD
Friday, February 27, 2009 - Speaker, Office of Minority Health National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
- Focus: Healthy disparities and childhood overweight and obesity prevention
- Location: Washington, DC
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None at this time.
None at this time.
Note: Surgeon General speeches and press releases can be found at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/newsroom.html
Updated: 10/09/2008
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