Let Your Voice Be Heard!

Join fellow pediatric clinicians and other health care providers to explore
how to influence policy and environmental change in the communities they serve.

Learn how to:
Use the Safe Routes to School campaign as an intervention to decrease childhood obesity
Access a wide range of resources that promote improved health for the entire community
Leverage the role of health care provider to advocate for children’s safety and health

Invited Speakers:

Richard Jackson, MD, MPH – Professor & Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA
Tegan K. Boehmer, PhD, MPH – National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
Lawrence Frank, PhD – J. Armand Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Urban Transportation Systems, UBC
George Luber, PhD - National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
Catherine Thomasson, MD – Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Martin LeBlanc, MA – Vice President, Children and Nature Network
Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Scott Gee, MD – Director for Prevention & Health Information, Permanente Medical Group, No. California
Sandra Stenmark, MD – Director of Pediatric Wellness, Permanente Medical Group, Colorado
Arthur Wendel, MD, MPH – National Center for Environmental Health, CDC

Registration is on-line only at the Safe Routes Conference website. click here
CME Workshop is $95.00 including continental breakfast, lunch, and all conference materials.

Continue the workshop conversations with over 500 national SRTS advocates at the
National Safe Routes to School Conference
“Two Steps Ahead”
August 19 – 21, 2009