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:

• December Events
• January Events
• February Events

December 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

January Events:

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

February 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

Back to January Events

Back to December Events

Video Presentations:

None at this time.

Publications:

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