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Jason Spangler (202-833-0009)
April 17, 2008 PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION CONVENES THE FIRST 2008 MEETING OF THE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ROUNDTABLE On April 17, Partnership for Prevention convened the first Health Professionals Roundtable meeting of 2008. This highly successful meeting focused on high-value clinical preventive services and cardiovascular prevention. The first half of the meeting reviewed tobacco cessation. This included an update from Dr. Cheryl Healton, President and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation, on clinical interventions, coverage issues, and quitlines. She also discussed the Foundation’s Ex Campaign. Partnership’s Dr. Corinne Husten followed with a presentation on the community and policy interventions that primary care providers can use to address the tobacco problem. The second half of the meeting focused on cardiovascular prevention. The specific intervention of aspirin counseling, including advancing aspiring utilization through influencing physician and patient behavior, was discussed by American College of Preventive Medicine President Dr. Mike Parkinson. Additionally, Dr. Denise Simons-Morton, senior scientific advisor of the Division of Prevention and Population Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, presented the evidence behind clinical interventions that decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. She also discussed ongoing clinical trial research and the role of primary care providers to help advance cardiovascular prevention. The meeting generated much discussion on all of the presentations as the members discussed current work on the issues by their organizations and future involvement. The next Roundtable meeting is scheduled for October 2008. The Health Professionals Roundtable (HPR) on Preventive Services, composed of the leading primary care professional organizations, was established in 2004 to facilitate collaboration in addressing issues of common interest and concern in the delivery of clinical preventive services. ###
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