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6th Annual WI CCC Summit -
Focusing on Rural Cancer Issues

WI CCC Summit
Thursday, April 2, 2009
8:30am - 3:00pm
Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, WI 54481

Pre-Summit Reception
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, WI 54481

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2009 Topic: Focus on Rural Cancer Issues
The 2009 Summit will bring partners from around the state together to discuss rural cancer issues and topics for the State of Wisconsin.

What is the focus of the 6th Annual CCC Summit?
The focus of this year's CCC Summit is Rural Cancer Issues. We will continue the discussion on how significant disparities affect access to cancer care. The focus will shift to geographic location and the issues that can arise for those living in rural communities. The Summit will further explore what continues to create this divide in cancer prevention and control. Promising practices that focus on addressing rural issues and cancer care will be shared through a keynote address, morning & afternoon plenary sessions and breakout sessions. Participants will look within the WI CCC Plan for ways that we can work to reduce or eliminate cancer health disparities in all communities & increase access to cancer care in Wisconsin. The Summit will provide opportunities to link partners and resources together with possible solutions that focus on rural issues throughout the continuum of cancer care.

Who should attend this Summit?
Cancer control professionals, advocates and survivors who want to learn about the issues facing rural populations as they work to prevent and control cancer in their communities. The Summit will guide participants in thinking through ways to reduce and eliminate the burden of cancer in Wisconsin.

Summit Topics and Highlights
A variety of Rural Cancer Topics will be discussed including:

  1. Opening Session: Rural Wisconsin Demographics
  2. Morning Breakout Session Topics:
    Colorectal Cancer Screening in Rural Communities
    Amish Culture and Cancer
    Innovative Screening Projects in Rural Communities
  3. Afternoon Plenary: Access to Affordable Health Insurance
  4. Afternoon Breakout Session Topics:
    Environmental Issues and Cancer Control
    Growth of Hispanics in Rural Wisconsin
    Changing the Culture of Palliative Care in Rural Wisconsin
  5. 6th Anniversary Celebration of the CCC Summit

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Steven Kirkhorn, M.D.
The event's keynote speaker will be Dr. Steven Kirkhorn, Medical Director of the National Farm Medicine Center and Chair of Marshfield Clinic System-wide Occupational Health. Dr. Kirkhorn is an occupational medicine physician with a previous background of rural primary care and formal training in environmental health with an interest in rural occupational, environmental, and community health issues. He is involved in clinical evaluations of rural patients with concerns regarding cancer and pesticides and other occupational and environmental toxins. His experience also includes medical surveillance for occupational carcinogens and teaching environmental medicine to medical students and residents. During his formal training in environmental health, he remembers his cancer epidemiology classes as the most challenging and interesting of all of his class work.

Pre-Summit Reception - Sponsored by Marshfield Clinic
You are also invited to a Pre-Summit Reception in honor of Dr. Steven Kirkhorn, the Keynote Speaker, on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 from 5:00 – 7:00pm at the same convention center - Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center, 1001 Amber Avenue, Stevens Point, WI  54481. 

Pre-Summit Reception for Dr. Steven Kirkhorn, M.D.
Dr. Steven Kirkhorn is the Medical Director of the National Farm Medicine Center and Chair of Marshfield Clinic System-wide Occupational Health. He is an occupational medicine physician with a previous background of rural primary care and formal training in environmental health with an interest in rural occupational, environmental, and community health issues. He is involved in clinical evaluations of rural patients with concerns regarding cancer and pesticides and other occupational and environmental toxins. His experience also includes medical surveillance for occupational carcinogens and teaching environmental medicine to medical students and residents. During his formal training in environmental health, he remembers his cancer epidemiology classes as the most challenging and interesting of all of his class work.

Please come to meet Dr. Kirkhorn and network with statewide cancer control partners at the Pre-Summit Reception. It will be an open house format and all are welcome. Please RSVP on your Summit Registration form. This will help us with ordering refreshments.

2009 Summit Registration
Registration is now available for the 2009 Summit. There is no registration fee. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Hotel Reservations
A block of rooms have been reserved for Wednesday, April 1, 2009.  Please mention
WI Cancer Control Summit to receive the special conference rates when you make your reservation. Rooms will be held until March 10, 2009.

Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center [hotel info]
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, WI 54481 [map]
Telephone: 715-344-0200

Please contact Sarah Kerch with any questions or comments about the 2009 Summit. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Call for Abstracts

Promising Projects
Want to share a successful project at the CCC Summit, but don’t want the work of creating a poster? Here's your chance! 

At this year’s Summit, in lieu of a poster session, we will be producing a booklet of Promising Projects in WI.  All you need to do is fill out the Statewide Inventory Form. Your project will be featured in the Summit booklet and in the Statewide Inventory Catalogue online. 

Plus you’ll get a special pin at the Summit noting that your project is featured in the Statewide Inventory. This will let others find you so that they can talk to you directly about your promising project.

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Summit booklet is Friday, March 6, 2009.

If you have questions, please contact Nancy Freeman via email at nafreeman@uwcarbone.wisc.edu or by telephone at 608-265-4618.

Sponsorships

Request for Sponsorships & Donations
Every year the WI CCC Summit continues to grow, bringing cancer control partners together to discuss issues and collaborate on possible solutions.

This year we are again asking for donations from our partners to help sponsor the Summit. Thanks to generous support, we have never charged a participant fee for this event because we want to gather input from as many people in Wisconsin as possible, without cost being a barrier.

Examples of sponsorship include, but are not limited to:

Continental Breakfast: $2,000*
Afternoon Break: $1,000*
Conference Materials: $800*
Conference Room Rental: $675
Printing Expenses: $500 - $2,000

*Estimated cost for approximately 200 participants.

If you or your organization would like to sponsor or donate funds for this year's Summit, please contact Nancy Freeman at nafreeman@uwcarbone.wisc.edu or by telephone at 608-265-4618.

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