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State Innovations Presentations
 Utah: Celebrating a Vital Statistics Centennial
Jeffrey Duncan, Director, Utah Office of Vital Records and Statistics
Illinois: The Use of a Scoring Algorithm for Determining Release of Tabular Vital Event Data
Mark Flotow, Acting Chief, Illinois Center for Health Statistics
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania’s Assisted Conception Birth Registration Procedure
Frank Yeropoli, Assistant Director, Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records
Oregon: Same Sex Marriages: Demographic Analysis
Karen Hampton, Registration Unit Manager, Oregon Center for Health Statistics
California: Electronic Physician Death Certificate Attestation
Michael Hogarth, M.D., Associate Professor, University of California Davis, School of Medicine
Ohio: Improvements in Ohio’s Vital Statistics Residence Data with Geocoding Software
John Paulson, Statistical Analysis Supervisor, Ohio Center for Public Health Data and Statistics
South Carolina: Reengineering of South Carolina Vital Statistics by Integrating Registration, Analysis and Dissemination as an Integrated System
Murray B. Hudson, Division Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
James A. Ferguson, Re-engineering Project Director, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Jo Ann Gooding, Director of Vital Statistics, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Guang Zhao, Director, Division of Biostatistics and Health GIS, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Province of British Columbia, Canada: Birth Certificates in Canada; Now and Future
Andrew McBride, Co-Chair, Vital Statistics Council for Canada/CEO, Vital Statistics Agency, Province of British Columbia, Canada
SUNDAY, JUNE 5 (continued)
New York City: Funeral Director Fraud: Enforcement Using an Administrative Tribunal
Flor Betancourt, Assistant Director, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York City: Biometric Signature Authentication in EDRS
Alex Maldonado‑Gonzalez, EDRS Coordinator, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Florida: Maintaining Accountability, in 15 minutes or Less
Sharon Dover, QA Field Representative, Florida Office of Vital Statistics
Utah: From Electronic Registration to Internet Query: Automation of a Vital Records Dataset
Lois Haggard, Ph.D., Director, Utah Office of Public Health Assessment
Jeffrey Duncan, Director, Utah Office of Vital Records
New Member Orientation
MONDAY, JUNE 6
Welcome and Announcements
Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Registrar and Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and President, NAPHSIS
News from NCHS
Edward J. Sondik, Ph.D., Director, NCHS
Keynote Address
Fitting the Pieces Together: How Data Informs Policy and Practice
Jim Pearsol, Assistant Director, Ohio Department of Health
Intelligence Reform: Preview of Coverage This Week
Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Registrar and Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and President, NAPHSIS
Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Observations on the Health of Vitals After 18 Months as Director of DVS
Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Intelligence Reform: Federal Perspectives
Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Registrar and Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and President, NAPHSIS
Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Social Security Administration Electronic Death Registration RFP
Jo Anne Harris, Team Leader Suspensions/Terminations, Social Security Administration
TUESDAY, JUNE 7
Current Research Activities in the Division of Vital Statistics
Moderator: Robert N. Anderson Ph.D., Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch, NCHS
Explaining the 2001-2003 Infant Mortality Increase: Data from the Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
Marian F. MacDorman, Ph.D., Statistician/Demographer, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Challenges in Measuring Gestational Age
Joyce A. Martin, Lead Statistician, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Diabetes Reporting on Death Certificates in Kentucky
Melonie Heron, Ph.D., Statistician/Demographer, Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Quality of Race and Hispanic Origin Reporting on Death Certificates
Elizabeth Arias, Ph.D., Health Scientist, Mortality Statistics Branch, NCHS
ICD Revision Process: Moving Toward ICD-11
Donna L. Hoyert, Ph.D., Health Scientist, Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Best Practices in Vital Records Security
Moderator: Charles Hardester, State Registrar and Director, Division of Vital Records, Pennsylvania Department of Health
Establishing a Working Fraud Unit
Mark Kassouf, Assistant State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Ohio Center for Public Health Data and Statistics
Delayed Births/Out of Institution Births
Sue Bordeaux, Programs Officer, Oklahoma Vital Records Division
Donna Calabrese, Director and Assistant State Registrar, Kansas Office of Vital Statistics
Securing your Security Paper
Peter Carucci, Director, Bureau of Production Systems Management, New York State Department of Health
Barbara Carter, State Registrar, Minnesota Center for Health Statistics
State Legislative Hot Topics
Moderator: Gary Kupchinsky, State Registrar, Kentucky Department of Public Health and Vital Statistics
“Strike-All” Amendments
Doug Leach, Death Registry Section Manager, Fraud Prevention Manager, and Investigator, Arizona Department of Health Services
New Arkansas Legislation- The Wisdom of the 85th General Assembly
John Senner, Ph.D., Director, Arkansas Center for Health Statistics
Experience Implementing a Birth Resulting in Stillbirth Record
Garland Land, Director, Missouri Center for Health Information Management and Evaluation
New Hampshire’s Recent Passage of a Pre-Adoption Access Law
William Bolton, State Registrar and Director, New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration
Surrogacy, Parental Notification and Fees
Donna Dossey, State Registrar, New Mexico Office of Vital Records and Health Statistics
Kimberly Peters, Statistical Research Director, New Mexico Office of Vital Records and Health Statistics
Transition in Vermont: Legislative and Legal Challenges
Richard McCoy, Public Health Statistics Chief, Vermont Division of Health Surveillance
EVVE Update: Intelligence Reform, Social Security and Drivers License Applications
Moderator: Michael L. Rodrian, State Registrar and Chief, California State Center for Health Statistics
Rose Trasatti, EDRS and EVVE Project Manager, NAPHSIS
Jill France, Bureau Chief, Iowa Office of Vital Records
Barry Nangle, Ph.D. Director, Utah Center for Health Data
Issues in the Re-release of State Health Data
Isabelle Horon, Dr.P.H., Director, Maryland Vital Statistics Administration
Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Statistics and the Media
Paul Overberg, Database Editor, USAToday
Intelligence Reform: The Process Begins
Moderator: Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Registrar and Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and President, NAPHSIS
Lorne A. Phillips, Ph.D., Director, Kansas Center for Health and Environmental Statistics
Barry Nangle, Ph.D. Director, Utah Center for Health Data
Sharon Leinbach, Health Statistics Information Manager, Tennessee Office of Vital Records
Jan Markowitz, Ph.D., Acting Executive Director, NAPHSIS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8
Revised Vital Statistics: Everything You Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask
Moderator: Julia L. Kowaleski, Acting Special Assistant for Vital Registration, Office of the Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Revised Birth Data: Are We Headed in the Right Direction?
Brady E. Hamilton, Ph.D., Statistician/Demographer, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Revised Death Data: 5 and 52 to 1
Donna L. Hoyert, Ph.D., Health Scientist, Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
In With the Old and Out With the New: Data Migration and Review of New Data Elements
Gary J. Sammet, Senior Management Analyst Supervisor, Public Health Statistics and Death Medical Coding Units, Florida Office of Vital Statistics
Partnership for Data Quality: Getting Hospitals Involved
Kryn Krautheim, Survey Statistician, Data Acquisition and Evaluation Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Terry Sowinski, Program Research Specialist III, Bureau of Biometrics, New York State Department of Health
Revise, Re-engineer, Review And Results
Kathlene A. Mueller, Administrator, Office of Data, Statistics and Vital Records/State Registrar, South Dakota Department of Health
Implementations of the National Models
Moderators: Rajesh Virkar, Chief, Data Acquisition and Evaluation Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Lorne A. Phillips, Ph.D., Director, Kansas Center for Health and Environmental Statistics
National Model, the National Experience
Rose Trasatti, EDRS and EVVE Project Manager, NAPHSIS
EDRS: New York City’s Implementation of the National Model
Flor Betancourt, Assistant Director, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Learned Lessons Applied: the EBRS Experience in Georgia
Michael R. Lavoie, Consultant, Vital Records, Georgia Division of Public Health
Shedding New Light on Fertility and Infant Health: Expanding the Value of Birth Registration Data
Moderator: Stephanie J. Ventura, Chief, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) as an Extension of the Vital Statistics System
Anjani Chandra, Ph.D., Health Scientist, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
William D. Mosher, Ph.D., Research Statistician, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Preliminary Findings and Future Plans
Marian F. MacDorman, Ph.D., Statistician/Demographer, Reproductive Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
Jerry West, Ph.D., ECLS-B Project Director, National Center for Education Statistics
Using the Birth Certificate to Implement the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Christopher Johnson, Lead Mathematical Statistician, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Leslie Lipscomb, Epidemiologist/Acting Project Officer, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
The Role of Vital Records in Birth Defects Surveillance
Larry Edmonds, Consultant, National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities
Diffusion of EDR Use Among Physicians
Moderator: Jennifer Woodward, Ph.D., State Registrar and Manager, Oregon Center for Health Statistics
If You Build It, They Will Come
Kathlene A. Mueller, Administrator, Office of Data, Statistics and Vital Records/State Registrar, South Dakota Department of Health
Connect the Docs
Barbara Carter, State Registrar, Minnesota Center for Health Statistics
EDR And Cause of Death Certification, Montana’s Experience
James R. Edgar, Supervisor, Montana Office of Vital Statistics
Re-engineering Innovations: Imaging-based Solutions
Moderator: Sandra Solano-McGuire, M.D., Chief, Health Statistics, Ohio Center for Public Health Data and Statistics
Moving from Ignorance to Confusion
Sandra Solano-McGuire, M.D., Chief, Health Statistics, Ohio Center for Public Health Data and Statistics
Images of the Past and Future
Donna Calabrese, Director and Assistant State Registrar, Kansas Office of Vital Statistics
Alabama’s VISION
Cathy Molchan, Director, Quality Assurance and Registration, Alabama Center for Public Health Statistics
Security Paper Vendor Panel
Moderator: Ronald Hyman, Registrar, Vital Statistics, Colorado Office of Vital Records
Jack Barnett, American Bank Note Company
Ernie Buckley, Appleton Security Products
Peyton Old, Fasver Technology, Inc.
Ron Totarsky, Midwest Bank Note Company
Larry McCartney, Moore Wallace, an RR Donnelley Company
Tom O’Toole, Pacific Bancnote Company, LLC
Graeme Dunn, Portals Bathford
Dan Thaxton, Standard Register Company
Harry Gieske, Viisage Technologies
THURSDAY, JUNE 9
NAPHSIS Partners
Nancy Veillon, Associate Commissioner for Office of Income Security Programs, Social Security Administration
Jay Maxwell, Senior Vice President, Technology, CIO, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Andrew McBride, Co-Chair, Vital Statistics Council for Canada/CEO, Vital Statistics Agency, Province of British Columbia, Canada
Town Hall Meeting
Steven Schwartz, Ph.D., Registrar and Assistant Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and President, NAPHSIS
Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, NCHS
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