2:30pm-3:30pm

Loch Raven Room- Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel

”Diabetes, Obesity, Nutrition, Aids/HIV- What Are The Effects On Minorities”

What makes minorities more at risk for these disease? As the minority population in the United States grows what is being done to combat the risks of being affected with one or more of these disease? This panel discussion will cover with early detection, improved care and education what is being done and what needs to be done to reverse this trend.

Moderator:

Garland Thompson

Senior Science Writer

Osiris Group Inc.

Speakers:

Doris Browne, M.D.

Senior Scientific Officer

National Institutes of Health

Susan Wyche Muhammad, MBA

Regional Resource Consultant - Region III

US Department of Health and Human Services

Charmagne Goodman Beckett, M.D.

LCDR, MC, U. S. Navy