September 13, 2007

Purdue teams with governor's office for health summit, Eva Goble lecture

The College of Consumer and Family Sciences and Purdue University are teaming with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' office to present the 2007 INShape Indiana Health Summit, Live Healthy, Work Healthy, on Oct. 15.

The summit is sponsored by Purdue and the Indiana State Department of Health. Judy Monroe, state health commissioner, will give the opening remarks.

"This year's health summit will provide attendees with tools to live healthy and work healthy," said Dennis Savaiano, dean of the college. "Hot topics in worksite wellness have been selected to equip businesses for today's challenges, including strategies for the implementation of wellness programs, and methods for businesses to improve their bottom lines by reducing health-care costs and utilizing tax breaks."

The governor is scheduled to attend. Main sessions will take place in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse and breakout sessions are in Stewart Center. Exhibits will be in the ballrooms in Purdue Memorial Union.

The program will feature the 2007 Eva Goble lecture by Glorian Sorensen, director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Risk Reduction Program. She will talk about "Workplace Wellness Programs: Do They Enhance Wellness?"

Other speakers will be William Dietz from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dee W. Edington from the University of Michigan. Dietz is director of the division of nutrition and physical activity in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Edington is director of Michigan's Health Management Research Center and a professor of kinesiology. His talk is sponsored by the Discovery Lecture Series.

Concurrent workshops will focus on the economic benefits of a healthy work force and the choices companies can provide their employees to help them develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Registration is open to CEOs of businesses, industries, hospitals, clinics, superintendents of schools, leaders of faith-based groups and other executives who have a primary say in the health options offered to their employees.

The cost before Sept. 15 is $25, or $35 until the Oct. 8 deadline. Exhibit space is available, and the cost of participation by nonprofit organizations will be waived for INShape Indiana partners.

The Eva Goble Lecture Series, established in 1992, honors the dean emerita of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences and her contributions to the people of Indiana. Goble was dean from 1967 to 1973.

Among her accomplishments, she maximized the Cooperative Extension Service's network to better acquaint people across the state with Purdue. Goble also was instrumental in establishing Twin Pines cooperative house at Purdue. In 1972, she was the first recipient of Purdue's Frederick L. Hovde Award of Excellence, which honors a Purdue staff member who contributes to the progress of rural Indiana.

Writer: Maggie Morris, (765) 494-2432, maggiemorris@purdue.edu

Source: Dennis Savaiano, (765) 494-8210, savaiano@purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

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