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Conference Schedule

Thursday, February 23rd

Rice Eccles Stadium 6th floor Varsity Room

Time Event
8-8:15am

Breakfast

8:15-8:30am

Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, Senior Vice President, University Health Sciences, Welcome and Introduction

8:30-11am

Session #1) The intersection of research and system change

David Turok, MD, MPH-The HER Salt lake Contraceptive Initiative-Growing the garden for change in Utah family planning.

Adam Sonfield, Senior Policy Manager, Guttmacher Institute-Leveraging the economic upside of family planning.

Jessica Sanders, PhD, MSPH-Expanded Contraceptive Access in Utah-The winding road, our friends and foes.

Diana Greene Foster, PhD-The role of science and evidence in reproductive health policy change-from Supreme Court to the States.

Kari White, PhD, MPH, MA- Family Planning Research and Policy in Texas: Steps Forward and Set Backs

Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS-You can keep your pants on! Improving reproductive health access (without a speculum in sight)

11am-noon

Gretchen Dietrich -Utah Museum of Fine Arts DirectorArt and Sex

12-1pm

Lunch at Rice Eccles Stadium

1-2:40pm

Session #2) Growing minds: Sexuality and family planning education

Jen Slonaker, VP of Education Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts-Get Real Comprehensive Sex Education That Works, From Research to Practice.

Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH-Integrating pleasure into existing sex education curricula: What we can do in the absence of system change.

Annabel Sheinberg, Director of Education Planned Parenthood Association of Utah-Disrupting the system: Utah implementation of sex education

2:40-2:45pm

Break

2:45-3:30pm

Sarah Brown PhD-A few things I learned about reducing nation wide teen pregnancy as the founder and CEO of the National Campaign to Reduce Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

4pm

Health Science Education Building (HSEB) 1730

Katie Watson, JD- OBGYNGrand Rounds, Scarlet A: Ethical Pluralism & American Abortion

Friday, February 24th

Rice Eccles Stadium 6th floor Varsity Room

Time Event
8-8:30am

Breakfast

8:30-10:10am

Session #3) Utah Research Presentations Katie Storck , MD, Holly Bullock , MD, Jessica Sanders, PhD MSPH, Bethany Everett, PhD , Claudia Geist, PhD

10:10-10:30am

Break

10:30am-noon

Utah Research Presentations Kyl Myers, Jen Kaiser, MD, Lori Gawron, MD, MPH Lauryn Roth, Annie Jenkins, MD

12pm

Lunch

1-3pm

Session #4) Common Ground & Battlegrounds

David Turok, MD, MPH Civil discourse in family planning

Mark Hathaway, MD, MPH-A multi-faceted approach to improving contraceptive access for underserved women in Washington D.C.

Marina Lowe, JD, Lexi Grosvenor Eller, MD, Cara Heuser, MD-Utah interactions with legislators

Katie Watson, JD-Knowing when to fold ‘em and demand your constitutional rights