Center for Managing Chronic Disease Anniversary Event

Center Director Noreen Clark welcomes guests.	Center Scientific Administrator, Julie Dodge (center) exchanges ideas with reception guests.	Associate Vice President for Research Marvin Parnes expresses appreciation for the efforts of the Center.

Center Director Noreen Clark (left) and University President Mary Sue Coleman catch up on Center projects.	Students discuss Center projects in poster displays.

On October 11th, the Center hosted a festive reception to mark its first anniversary.  Over 120 colleagues, friends, and supporters gathered in the Crossroads Community Building at the University of Michigan to converse and celebrate the accomplishments of the Centers' first very busy and highly productive year.  Good food and 22 posters available around the venue contributed to making the event enjoyable and informative. 

In her remarks to the assembled company University President, Mary Sue Coleman, lauded the Center's efforts and pointed to it as unique and ground breaking in getting to the heart of effective control of chronic disease.  Public Health Dean, Ken Warner, opined that in a very short period of time, the Center had become fully functioning, well funded, and a magnet for interested faculty and students around the world.  Dean of the Medical School, James Woolliscroft, noted that the creativity, interdisciplinary approach, and collaboration exhibited in the Center's approach were features that would be the hallmark of excellent science and medicine in the 21st century.  Associate Vice President for Research, Marvin Parnes, observed that the technical assistance and dissemination arena of the Center is a model for translation of research into practice.  Center Director, Noreen Clark, thanked Associate Directors Cathleen Connell and Nancy Janz, Scientific Administrator, Julie Dodge, Head of Dissemination, Amy Friedman-Milanovich, and all of the many staff, faculty, associates and supporters of the Center who helped turn an important idea into a functioning reality in an amazingly short period of time.  The Center's first year has constituted an accelerated run up to achievement. 

University President May Sue Coleman congratulates the Center as a unique and important research endeavor.

Dean Ken Warner, Ms. Ann Leo, Dr. Martin Hurwitz, Dr. Harvey Leo, Ms. Christy Houle, and Bob Lane attend to the speaker's comments.

Professor Paula Lantz, Chair of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health, meets Center Faculty and staff.	Center staff members Martha Quinn and Shelly Stoll (right and far right) converse with reception guests.

Dean of Public Health, Ken Warner summarizing the Center's first year accomplishments.

Friends and supporters mingle and exchange ideas.	Center Associate Director Cathleen Connell, Faculty member Professor Jack Wheeler (right and far right) and Faculty member Dr. Toby Lewis consider poster display information.