Schedule of Events
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
National Summit on America’s Children – by invitation only
All events will be held in Room 345 of the Cannon House Office Building.
Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
The Honorable George Miller, Chairman, House Committee on Education and Labor
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
The Honorable Chaka Fattah
Panel I: The Science of Early Childhood Development
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair and Director, Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dolores G. Norton, Ph.D.
Samuel Deutsch Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Charles A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research,
Children’s Hospital Boston
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Megan Gunnar, Ph.D.
Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development
Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Panel II: Early Learning
11:00 a.m – 12:15 p.m.
Oscar A. Barbarin, Ph.D.
L. Richardson and Emily Preyer Bicentennial Distinguished Professor for Strengthening Families, School of Social Work
Senior Investigator, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
James E. Rohr
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, PNC Financial Services Group
Karen W. Ponder
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, North Carolina Partnership for Children
Donna Davidson
President and Chief Executive Officer, Easter Seals of North Georgia
Alberto Melis
Chief of Police, Waco Police Department, Texas
Luncheon
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(Buffet Lunch provided)
Keynote Address: James Heckman, Ph.D.
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
Director, Economics Research Center at the Department of Economics
Director, Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Panel III: Health and Mental Health
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Jane Knitzer, Ed.D
Director, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Paul H. Wise, M.D., MPH
Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society Center for Health Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
Glenn Flores, M.D., FAAP
Professor, Pediatrics and Population Health, Medical College of Wisconsin
Director, Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children, Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Carol Wilson Spigner, MSW, DSW
Co-Director, Field Center for Children’s Policy Practice and Research
Kenneth. L.M. Pray Professor, School of Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Col. Elisabeth M. Stafford, M.D.
Fellowship Director, Adolescent Medicine, San Antonio Military Pediatric Center
Panel IV: Income and Family Support
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
J. Lawrence Aber, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Human Development and Contextual Change
Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Rucker C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Deborah A. Frank, M.D.
Director, Grow Clinic for Children
Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Jody Heymann, Ph.D., M.D.
Founding Director, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy
Founding Director, Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University
Professor, Faculties of Medicine and Arts, McGill University
Gordon Berlin
President, MDRC
Closing Remarks
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.