Economic Development Symposium 2007

The Politics of Healthcare Symposium

Mercer University's School of Medicine Auditorium August 24, 2007 9:00am     8:30am Continental Breakfast     9:15am Welcome       Mr. Tom Sands President, 100 Black Men of Macon - Middle Georgia, Inc.     9:30am Panel Discussion     12:00pm Luncheon (President's Dining Room, Mercer University Center)       Welcome and Introductions       Mr. Virgil Adams Chair, Economic Development Symposium, 100 Black Men of Macon - Middle Georgia, Inc.       Introduction of Luncheon Keynote Speaker Keynote Speaker Otis L. Story, Sr., President and CEO, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Story has nearly 30 years of healthcare experience working with major medical group, academic medical centers and community-based hospitals including the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and Memorial Health University Medical Center (Savannah, Georgia). He has been a leader in financial turnarounds and performance improvements for hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers. Moderator Kirkland A. McGhee, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Health Plans. Mr. McGhee is an attorney in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. He practices in the areas of healthcare, insurance and business regulation. He has represented the interests of his clients before state and federal legislatures. Panelist Senator Saxby Chambliss. On November 5, 2007, Saxby Chambliss was elected Georgia's 3rd United States Senator. Georgia Trend magazine has named him one of Georgia's Most Influential Georgians. He is a member of the Senate Caucus on Military Depots, Arsenals and Ammunition Plants, the Congressional Sportsmen Foundation, the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, the Rural Health Caucus, the Juvenile Diabetes Caucus and he is the co-chair of the Senate Reserve Caucus. Panelist Representative Jim Marshall, Georgia's Eighth Congressional District. A former mayor of Macon, Congressman Jim Marshall is serving his third term in Congress representing Georgia's 8th Congressional District, which is comprised of 21 counties stretching south through Middle and South Georgia. He servers on the House Armed Services, Financial Services and Agricultural Committees. He is also a member of the Rural Health Care Coalition. Panelist Georgia State Representative Mickey Channell, House District 116 Greensboro. Representative Channell has earned a reputation as an expert on Public Healthcare in Georgia. He was Chair of the Community Health Subcommittee of Appropriations overseeing the allocation of a $7 billion State Healthcare Budget. He also serves on the Board of Governors for the Mercer University School of Medicine. His proudest achievement in the State Legislature was authoring the PeachCare for Kids legislation securing affordable healthcare services for over 200,000 children of Georgia's working families. Georgia State Representative David Lucas, House District 139, which includes parts of Bibb County. His legislative service presently includes membership on the Industrial Relations, Insurance and Public Utilities and Telecommunications Committees. Lucas also is an active member of 100 Black Men of Macon - Middle Georgia, Inc.   LUNCHEON TOPIC: "ISSUES AFFECTING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY—THE GRADY HEALTH SYSTEM Founded in 1892, Grady Health system is an internationally recognized teaching hospital staffed exclusively by doctors from Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine. It meets the medical needs of underinsured and uninsured patients while offering a full range of healthcare services to all citizens of the metropolitan Atlanta community. Twenty-Five percent of all physicians in Georgia are trained at Grady Greater than 900,000 patients visit Grady annually Grady is the largest public hospital in the Southeast Grady provides one of only two burn centers in the state Grady boasts one of four Level I Trauma Centers in Georgia One of the goals of 100 Black Men of Macon - Middle Georgia, Inc. is to promote partnership and economic development. This year's symposium is being presented in collaboration with Mercer University as we educate our community on the complex dynamics associated with healthcare access, costs and reimbursement. For more information, please contact the chairman: Mr. Virgil Adams 577 Mulberry St Macon, GA 31201 vadams@jtlaw.com 478-743-2159

Economic Development Symposium 2006

The Economics of Healthcare Symposium

Mercer University's Medical School Auditorium June 30, 2006 8:30am     8:30am Continental Breakfast     9:00am Welcome       Dr. Martin Dalton, Dean Mercer Medical School       Mr. Jimmie Samuel, President 100 Black Men of Macon - Middle Georgia     9:10am Remarks       Dr. Hewitt W. Matthews - Moderator Vice President of Health Sciences & Dean of Southern School of Pharmacy     9:20am Dr. Garth Graham, MD., M.P.H. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Minority Health     9:35am Panelist' Presentations     10:40am - 11:30am Questions & Answers     12:00 noon Luncheon       Welcome & Introduction of new President       Dr. Kirby Godsey, President of Mercer University       Remarks Sen. Saxby Chambliss       Introduction of Luncheon Keynote Speaker Luncheon Speaker Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Chancellor, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Symposium Speaker Garth N. Graham, M.D., M.P.H., is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services Moderator Hewitt Matthews, Ph.D, is Vice President of Health Sciences & Dean of the Southern School of Pharmacy. B.S., Chemistry, Clark College; B.S., Pharmacy, Mercer University; M.S., Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Panelist Mark D. Trail is serving as the Chief of the Medical Assistance Plans, in the Department of Community Health. As Director of the State Medicaid agency is responsible for all Medicaid policy and eligibility, as well as the state SCHIP program, PeachCare for Kids. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia receiving a Masters degree in Community Counseling. He serves as an Adjunct Faculty member for the College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia Panelist Kirkland A. McGhee is an attorney in private practice in Atlanta. He practices in the areas of health care, insurance, and business regulation representing the interest of his clients before the state and federal legislatures, and regulatory agencies. Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Health Plans. B.A. in philosophy and law degree from Georgia State University. Panelist Don Faulk is President and CEO of Central Georgia Health System and the Medical Center of Central Georgia where he has been employed since 1974. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and from Washington University, St. Louis, Missour with a Master's degree in Health Administration. He served an administrative residency at Baptist Medical Centers in Birmingham, Alabama. Panelist Allen Golson received his Bachelor of Science Degree in hospital administration from the University of Alabama and a Master of Business Administration from Southeastern Institute of Technology in Huntsville, Alabama. He has been with HCA for 15 years having most recently served as CEO of Palmyra Medical Centers in Albany, Georgia. He was appointed CEO of Coliseum Health System April 1, 2005. Panelist Martin L. Dalton, Jr., M.D., FACS received a B.S. degree from Auburn University in 1953 and an M.D. from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham in 1957. In 1983, he returned to the University of Mississippi as Professor of Surgery under James D. Hardy and served in that capacity until 1990 when he became Professor of Surgery at the Mercer University School of Medicine and in 1991 became Chairman of the Department of Surgery of Mercer University School of Medicine and the Chief of Surgery and Program Director of the surgery residency at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, Georgia.

An Evening in Black and White
at the La Cabaret Gala

Honoring
Dr. Kirby Godsey, President
Mercer University

Friday, June 20, 2006
6:30 - 7:00p.m. - Cocktails
7:15pm Dinner & Dancing
Macon City Auditorium
415 First Street
Macon, Georgia

This is a Black Tie event that will feature Cocktails, Dinner, Program
and Entertainment by
Diggin' Rhythm N'Brass of Jacksonville, Florida

Tickets: $100

Economic Development Symposium 2004

One of the missions of 100 Black Men of Macon-Middle Georgia, Inc. is to promote economic development in the Macon and Middle Georgia area. In furtherance of this mission, on June 18, 2004, in collaboration with Mercer University & NewTown Macon, 100 Black Men of Macon-Middle Georgia, Inc. presents its second annual Economic Development Symposium entitled "The Economics of Education."

The symposium will be presented at the Mercer University's Religous Life Center and features a stellar group of panelists, including George Isreal, President Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Steve Dolinger, Georgia President Partnership for Excellence in Education, Sharon Patterson, Bibb County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Thomas Meredith, Chancellor Board of Regents, Thomas Mortenson, Moderator, and United States Senator Saxby Chambliss or Rod Paige, Secretary of Education as the Luncheon Speaker,

The symposium will be an annual event with a different topic regarding economic development being selected each year.

An Evening in Black and White
at the La Cabaret, La Cabaret, La Cabaret

Presented by:
The 100 Black Men of Macon & Middle Georgia
Mercer University
NewTown Macon

Friday, June 18, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Macon City Auditorium

This is a Black Tie event that will feature Cocktails, Dinner, Program
and Entertainment by
Ken Ford & Five Men On A Stool

Sponsor Table: $1000  (Seats 10)         Corporate Table: $750 (Seats 10)

On June 6, 2003, in collaboration with Mercer University, 100 Black Men of Macon-Middle Georgia, Inc. presented its first annual Economic Development Symposium entitled "Diversity in the Workplace."

The symposium was presented at the Mercer University School of Medicine and featured a stellar group of panelists, including Ray Anderson, Vice-President and Chief Administrative Officer of the Atlanta Falcons; Melanie Platt, Chief Administrative Officer, AGL Resources; Frank McCloskey, Vice-President of Diversity, Georgia Power Company and Texanne Reeves, Group Manager of Workforce Strategies and Programs, Georgia Pacific. The symposium was moderated by Minyon Moore, former Chief Operating Officer of the Democratic National Committee, and former Assistant to President Clinton and Director of Whitehouse Political Affairs. The symposium was capped with a luncheon featuring Frank Belatti, Chief Executive Officer of AFC Enterprise, the parent company for Church's Chicken, Popeye's Chicken, Cinnabon, Seattle's Best Coffee and Torrefazione Italian Coffee.

By all accounts, the symposium was an overwhelming success and in view of current conditions in corporate America, the topic of diversity in the workplace proved to be quite appropriate and provided much needed discussion and information regarding dealing with this complex issue. The symposium will be an annual event with a different topic regarding economic development being selected each year.