2006 Kaiser Media Fellowship Program: Sitevisit to New Orleans, LA and…

2006 Kaiser Media Fellowship Program: Sitevisit to New Orleans, LA and the
Gulf Coast, Saturday, March 10 - Friday, March 16, 2007


Accommodations:
J.W. Marriott Hotel New Orleans, 614 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

Saturday, March 10
Fellows arrive in New Orleans
7:30pm: Optional dinner--Palace Café

Sunday, March 11 -- Note: Daylight Savings Time begins
10:45am: Depart hotel by van
11:00am: Brunch--Café Degas
1:00pm: Tour of city by van, led by Women of the Storm
4:30pm: Return to hotel
5:45pm: Meet in hotel lobby
6:00pm: Depart hotel by van to the Upperline restaurant
6:30pm: Drinks/reception/dinner at the Upperline restaurant
6:45pm: Speaker: Ms. Kim Boyle, J.D., Bring New Orleans Back Commission
         Member; partner, Phelps Dunbar LLP
7:15pm: Speaker: Fred Cerise, M.D., M.P.H., Secretary, Louisiana Department of
         Health & Hospitals
9:15pm: Van returns to hotel

Monday, March 12--J.W. Marriott Hotel, St. Jerome Room, 3rd floor
7:45am: Buffet breakfast
8:15am-9:30am: Overview--Healthcare system and challenges before Katrina:
         Diane Rowland, Sc.D., Executive Vice President, Kaiser Foundation;
         Executive Director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
9:30am-9:45am: Break
9:45am-10:30am: Kevin Stephens, Sr., M.D., J.D., Director, City of New Orleans
         Health Department
10:30am-11:00am: Break
11:00am-12:30pm: Changing demographics, the growing Latino community, and
         changes in the health care system: Clayton Williams, M.P.H. Director of
         Urban Health Initiatives, Louisiana Public Health Institute
12:30pm: Buffet lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm: Mental health needs of New Orleans residents: Cecile Tebo, LCSW,
         Crisis Coordinator, New Orleans Police Department; Jeffrey Rouse, MD,
         Chief Deputy Coroner
 3:00pm: Walk to Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House; meeting with
         Eboni Price, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director and Leah Berger, M.P.H.,
         Clinic Coordinator
4:30pm: Walk to hotel
6:20pm: Meet in hotel lobby
6:30pm: Walk to Antoine's restaurant
7:00pm: Dinner with Jed Horne, Metro Editor, Times-Picayune; author, Breach of
         Faith--Reporting on the City of New Orleans, pre- and post-Katrina
2006 Kaiser Media Fellowship Program: Sitevisit to New Orleans, LA and the
Gulf Coast, Saturday, March 10 - Friday, March 16, 2007

Tuesday, March 13
7:50am: Meet in hotel lobby
8:00am: Depart by van for Farmers Market
8:30am: Arrive Farmers Market, breakfast at market, 9-10
         Q&A in conference room with Bridget Kelly, talk with vendors after Q&A
10:00am: Depart by van to Baton Rouge
11:30am-12:00pm: Arrive Baton Rouge; short tour of capital
12:00pm-1:15pm: Lunch
1:15pm: Depart for offices of Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals
1:30pm-2:40pm: Meeting with Roxane Townsend, M.D., Deputy Secretary for the
         Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals
3:00pm: Depart by van for FEMA Renaissance Village
3:30pm: Visit FEMA Renaissance Village trailer park medical clinic--Shelia Webb,
         PhD, RN, former Director of Health, City of New Orleans; and Aurelia
         Pittman, MSN, RN, Quality Assurance Coordinator, EXCELth Inc. mobile
         medical clinics
5:00pm: Depart by van for New Orleans
6:30 pm: Return to hotel, J.W. Marriott, New Orleans
7:15pm: Meet in hotel lobby to walk to Palace Café
7:30pm: Dinner at Palace Café

Wednesday, March 14
8:00am: Breakfast on your own
9:00am: Depart hotel for Louisiana State University Hospital
9:30am: Meetings with Cathi Fontenot, M.D., Medical Director, Charity Hospital and
         Dr. Peter deBlieux , Medical Center of Louisiana Director of Emergency
         Services, tour of hospital, briefing in conference room 10:00-11:00am
11:20am: Depart by van for lunch at Café Adelaide
12:00pm: Lunch Café Adelaide, meet with Karen DeSalvo, M.D., MPH, Executive
         Director and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics,
         Tulane University School of Medicine
1:40pm: Depart by van to Common Ground Health clinic
2:00pm: Visit to Common Ground Health Clinic and the Latino Health Outreach
         Project, tour with Medical Director, Ravi Vadlamudi, MD and Anne Mulle,
         NP
3:00pm: Depart by van for Southern University campus
3:30pm: Visit to Southern University, St. Cecilia, Baywater, Daughters of
         Charity clinic/ EXCELth mobile van outreach to students and faculty
5:00pm: Depart by van for hotel
6:30pm: Meet in lobby to walk to Galatoire's
7:00pm: Dinner at Galatoire's
7:15pm: Speaker: Beth Scalco, LCSW, MPA, Administrative Director, Louisiana
         Office of Public Health's HIV/AIDS program; former chair, National
         Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
2006 Kaiser Media Fellowship Program: Sitevisit to New Orleans, LA and the
Gulf Coast, Saturday, March 10 - Friday, March 16, 2007


Thursday, March 15
Breakfast on your own
8:00am: Depart New Orleans by van for Gulfport/Biloxi
10:00am: Arrive Gulfport/Biloxi
          Meet at offices of The Sun Herald with Stan Tiner, Executive Editor and
          with Dr. Irwin Redlener, Director National Center for Disaster Preparedness
          at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and President of
          The Children's Health Fund
10:15-12:00pm: Tour Children's Health Fund Clinic at Pass Road Elementary with Dr.
          Redlener and Persharan Dixon, MD, Medical Director.
12:00 pm: Take van back to the The Sun Herald
12:10pm-2:00pm: Working lunch with Dr. Redlener and Dr. Regina Benjamin, founder
          and chief executive, Bayou-la-Batre Rural Health Clinic in conference room
          in the The Sun Herald
2:00pm: Dr. Redlener departs for airport
2:00-2:15pm: Break
2:15pm-3:00pm: Overview of issues in Gulfport/Biloxi post-Katrina/Rita ­ Stan Tiner
          and Ricky Mathews, Publisher of the The Sun Herald
3:00pm-5:00pm: Tour of Gulfport/Biloxi led by Stan Tiner
5:00pm: Depart Biloxi by van
6:30pm: Return to J.W. Marriott hotel, New Orleans
6:45pm Meet in hotel lobby to walk to dinner
7:00pm: Optional Dinner at Herbsaint

Friday, March 16
Fellows depart
2006 Kaiser Media Fellowship Program: Sitevisit to New Orleans, LA and the
Gulf Coast, Saturday, March 10 - Friday, March 16, 2007



Participants

2006/7 Kaiser Media Fellows
Laura Beil, medical writer, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX
June Cross, independent documentary film producer, New York City, NY
Eric Eyre, reporter, The Charleston (West VA) Gazette, Charleston, WV
Howard Gleckman, senior correspondent, Business Week, Washington, D.C.
Paul Jacobs, freelance reporter, CA
Joanne Kenen, Washington Congressional correspondent, Reuters News
                                                  Agency, Washington, D.C.
Seema Mathur, medical reporter, CBS 42 KEYE-TV, Austin, TX
Maryn McKenna, journalist and author, Minneapolis, MN
Joe Neel, health editor, science desk, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
Julie Salamon, author, New York City, NY

Invited Reporters
Sharon Carpenter, reporter/producer, BET News
Darryl Harrison, camera/audio, BET News
Lee Harvey, independent documentary producer, Houma, LA
Josh Norman, health reporter, The Sun Herald, Biloxi

Kaiser Foundation staff
Penny Duckham, executive director, Kaiser Media Fellowships Program
Erica Frenkel, program associate, Kaiser Media Fellowships Program
Deirdre Graham, senior program administrator, Kaiser Media Fellowships Program
Diane Rowland, executive vice president, Kaiser Family Foundation; executive director
        Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Adele Shartzer, special assistant to the executive vice president, Kaiser Family
        Foundation; policy analyst, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Rakesh Singh, senior communications officer, Kaiser Family Foundation
Jeny Wegbreit, senior program officer, Kaiser Media Fellowships Program