Registration/Continental Breakfast/Visit with Exhibitors

Wellness Activity (warm-up) – Zumba Fitness presented by Toby Wells YMCA of San Diego County 

Welcome

• Hamilton Mears, 2013 HASC Wellness Committee Chair & Administrator, Scripps Wellness 
• Steven Escoboza, President/CEO, Hospital Association of San Diego and Imperial Counties

Then, Now and in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

• Lee Dukes, President, Principal Wellness Company
  • Technology is often viewed as a complement to communications—a message carrier rather than a message creator. This presentation will provide a brief view of technology as it was, as it is, and as it may be in the future. But the effectiveness of technology will be driven not by its own cleverness. How we perceive and accept the message and the messenger is quickly changing. Generational differences related to communication preferences, use of technology, and extrinsic motivators will be addressed, specifically as they relate to health promotion efforts.

Break/Visit with Exhibitors

The Art and Science of Engagement: Exploring Common Pathways to Well-Being

• Timothy Newman, MD, Medical Director, FirstEnergy
  • An engaging presentation that will identify methods to improve individual engagement in health, Well-being and chronic condition management. Common pathways for engagement will be reviewed to facilitate development of a health management strategy. The discussion will provide: An overview of engagement and health behavior change; common factors in development of chronic health conditions; tools to measure engagement; strategies for individual engagement and well-being; best practices for engagement in the workplace.

Total Employee Well-Being Integration and Engagement: Integration and Engagement as Key Workforce Health and Productivity

• Tammy Green, MPH, CHES, Director, Well-Being & Absence Management, Providence Health, Anchorage
  • Providence Health & Services maintains medical facilities and associated services across the Pacific Northwest, with an employee population in excess of 50,000. Over the past five years, Providence ministries have worked to develop a comprehensive approach to employee health management, culminating in a redesign of organizational structure that better incorporates all employee health services, leveraging touch points all along the care continuum. Tammy Green will present the value of this fully integrated system, including results and specific examples of opportunities to implement better integrated practices within your organization.

Lunch/Visit with Exhibitors

Exhibitor Drawings/Special Announcements

Wellness Activity - Get Worked Up! Have Fun, Stay Fit, and Relieve Stress at the Office with Melanie Cumbee, Manager, The Good Life, MemorialCare Health System

What’s the Value of the Investments Your Company is Making in Health? Your CFO will be Asking Soon

• Tom Parry, PhD, President/CEO, Institute for Integrated Benefits
  • Employers are in transition in their strategies around health benefits. It wasn’t long ago that employers saw health benefits only as a cost center; today, a growing number of employers are talking about health as “business value.” There are two key components in making that transition: convincing senior management that workforce health is a key corporate asset and bringing the data together to make that business case. Dr. Thomas Parry, president of the Integrated Benefits Institute, will discuss IBI’s latest research with Chief Financial Officers and a pragmatic approach to bringing together key population health metrics focused on leading indicators of health, indicators of care and lagging indicators to make that business case.

Break/Visit with Exhibitors

Concurrent Breakout Sessions Presentation/Panel 

• Session A:  Building an Employee Wellness Program: How to Start, How to Sustain
  • Rick Hecht, Director, Southern California, HealthWorks Consulting and Customer Support, Kaiser Permanente 
  • It’s true—healthy employees are the foundation for a healthy business.  Implementing a successful employee wellness program involves more than just implementing activities and rewards.  Without a long-term strategy, many programs are likely to fail.  A successful, sustainable program requires collecting data around health risks and employee interests, incorporating wellness into the business strategy, and building a multi-year plan focused on creating a sustainable culture of health.
• Session B:  Integrating Blue Zones’ Concepts into a Well-Being Strategy 
  • Antonio Linares, MD, RVP, Medical Director, Anthem Health & Wellness Solutions
  • This presentation will illustrate how Anthem has worked with wellness partners to integrate key concepts from The Blue Zones into a well-being strategy that focuses on five core components: physical health, emotional health, financial health, work-related wellness and community health. The focus will be on wellness communication, engagement and well-being sustainability strategies.
• Session C:  Doing Health Differently: An Emerging Model at Mayo Clinic
  • Philip Hagen, MD, Medical Director, Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth, and Vice Chair, Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic
  • In this session, Dr. Hagen will challenge and inspire participants as he explains how Mayo Clinic plans to leverage technology; data integration; multi-modal programming; team-based care, and personalized interventions to develop evidence-based solutions that are achievable and sustainable for people everywhere across the health spectrum.

Dinner - Sevilla Restaurant & Tapas Bar

353 5th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101

www.cafesevilla.com

Fun Walk/Run presented by Toby Wells YMCA of San Diego County

Breakfast

Worker Fatigue:A Multi-Faceted Issue 

• BJ Bartleson, RN, MS, NEA-BC, Vice President, Nursing and Clinical Services, California Hospital Association
• Gail Blanchard-Saiger, Vice President, Labor and Employment, California Hospital Association
  • This presentation will focus on the outcomes of our Thought Leader Forums on health care worker fatigue.  Participants in these regional forums include various hospital stakeholders such as CNOs, HR executives, risk management, quality and employee health.  Hear a definition of health care worker fatigue, its implications for employee relations and patient care.  We will review research to date, including what steps hospitals, CHA and the regional associations are taking to address this complex, multi-faceted issue.  The objective is to identify the various facets of health care worker fatigue; discuss how the issue may impact employee relations, patient care and other hospital concerns; and identify resources that a hospital may access to learn more about the issue and/or facilitate inter-disciplinary discussion and action.

Diet and Obesity: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity

• Gary Taubes, Journalist and Co-Founder, Nutrition Science Initiative
  • Since the 1950s, the conventional wisdom has held that we get fat because we eat too much and move too little. Virtually all research on obesity and related chronic diseases is predicated on this notion. The problem has always been that doing the opposite — eating less and exercising more — fails almost invariably to cure the problem, suggesting the possibility that our underlying hypothesis is simply incorrect. What’s the alternative? Prior to World War II, European clinicians argued that obesity was caused by a defect in the hormonal/enzymatic regulation of adipose tissue metabolism. By the 1960s, it was clear that fat accumulation is fundamentally regulated by the hormone insulin, which in turn is secreted primarily in response to the carbohydrates in our diet. So a reasonable hypothesis is that we get fat not because we consume more calories than we expend, but because the carbohydrates that we eat happen to be uniquely fattening. A simple revision to first principles in our underlying assumption about the causes of weight gain will have profound and far-reaching implications. Participants in this session will be able to identify the science of why people get fat and how the body metabolizes food.

The Limits of Scientific Evidence and the Ethics of Dietary Guidelines

• Peter Attia, MD, President/Co-Founder, Nutrition Science Initiative
  • Most of the dietary recommendations made in the United States are not firmly grounded in well-controlled science.  The implications for this are profound, especially at a time where two-thirds of Americans are overweight and obesity and its related diseases – diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease to name a few – are claiming the lives of more people each year.  In this presentation, Peter Attia takes a close look at one such pillar of dietary wisdom, the recommendation that Americans minimize their consumption of dietary cholesterol and fat in an effort to reduce heart disease.
    Objectives
    1. Gain understand the difference between correlation or association and cause
    2. Gain appreciation for interplay of scientific and political forces
    3. Achieve familiarity with state of science on dietary cholesterol and saturated fat

Trial and Error in Workplace Wellness

• Christopher Scanlan, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
  • Is your workplace wellness program ready for court?  Join attorney Christopher Scanlan from Arnold & Porter, LLP in “court” as he hears the evidence on both sides of challenging issues facing employers who implement workplace wellness programs.  You, the audience, will render a verdict on the case before you.  “Judge” Scanlan will then deliver a legal judgment and follow up on the key issues raised by the case.  Time will be reserved at the end for an update on recent changes in the law and questions from the gallery. Participants in this session will be able to describe workplace wellness legal issues facing employers.

Wrap-Up

• Hamilton Mears, 2013 HASC Wellness Committee Chair & Administrator, Scripps Wellness