Dr. Winkenwerder will be a panelist during the upcoming discussion titled, “Tobacco: The Winnable Battle among America’s Armed Forces” to explore and address the high prevalence rates of smoking in the U.S. military. The event will take place at Legacy – 1724 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 on November 10th, 2011.
Panelists will include:
Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, Legacy® President and CEO - as Moderator
- Stuart Bondurant, PhD - Chair, Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Smoking Cessation in the Military and Veteran Populations and Former Professor of Medicine and Dean Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Colleen Haydon, MSW, MPH, Director, Project UNIFORM (Undoing Nicotine Influence From Our Respected Military) where she builds military-civilian public health partnerships around the nation
- Lee Mandel, MD, MPH - Physician with the United States Navy currently assigned as Command Flight surgeon, Naval Safety Center. Captain Mandel's previous assignments include tours as Senior Medical Officer aboard three US Navy aircraft carriers, most recently the USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77)
- Robert N. Proctor, Professor of the History of Science, Stanford University
- William Winkenwerder Jr., MD, MBA, Chairman and CEO, The Winkenwerder Company, LLC. – Serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from October 2001 through April 2007, Dr. Winkenwerder led the Military Health System and was the principal medical advisor to the Secretary of Defense
With smoking prevalence among our servicemen and women estimated at 31% -- far exceeding the current national average of 19.3% -- working to decrease these rates is critical. And as the U.S. Department of Defense now moves to implement comprehensive smoking cessation programs under TRICARE, this issue is at a crucial and timely juncture. Saving the lives of our young people and service members is vital, as tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death in this nation.
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