November - Diabetes Month Event
Overview
The Future of Diabetes: Reversing Trends, Promoting Health, and Finding a Cure. The event, in honor of American Diabetes Month is hosted by Ralph Muller, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System and Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism and featuring as Keynote Speaker, Giridhar Mallya, MD, MSHP, Program Director for "Get Healthy Philly" and Director Policy and Planning for the City of Philadelphia.Keynote Speaker
Giridhar Mallya, MD, MHSP, has been the Director of Policy and Planning for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health since October 2008. In this position, Dr. Mallya helps to define public health priorities for the City, coordinates the Department’s research and data analysis activities, and works with key leadership—including the Board of Health and the Air Pollution Control Board—to set policies and develop regulations. He is also the Primary Investigator for Philadelphia’s CDC-funded Communities Putting Prevention to Work Tobacco Policy & Control and Nutrition & Physical Activity initiatives.
Dr. Mallya graduated from Brown University Medical School in Providence, RI, and completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Following residency, Dr. Mallya was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Masters Degree in Health Policy Research.
Panelists
Location
The event will be held in the Austrian Auditorium, 1st floor of the Clinical Research Building.
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Address: 415 Curie Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104
Complimentary parking will be available on Curie Blvd. in the Health Center Garage (Lot #44) located adjacent to the Biomedical Research Building.
