2009_Salute to Hispanic Heritage Month Luncheon
Honoring Those Who Do Good by Doing Wellness
Thursday, September 24, 2009
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Brady's Landing
8505 Cypress Street, 77012

Join the HWA Salute to Hispanic Heritage Month as we honor legendary Houstonians who have
made significant contributions in promoting health & wellness to the community.

		AGENDA
11:00 am - 12:00 pm:		__Registration and Networking
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm		__Program ___-Emcee: Frank Michel, Communications Director, City of Houston ___-Presentation of Video ___-Presentation of Honorees Individual Honorees Alicia Carmona Reyes Rosa Tang, MD, MPH Carlos Vallbona, MD Louise Villejo Marcarita Coronado Young Institutional Honoree Univision
Sponsors:		______
Community Partners:		___ _________

Speaker

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Alicia Carmona Reyes

Senior Vice President, Community Health Program, Harris County Hospital District

Alicia Carmona Reyes is the Senior Vice President/Administrator of Community Health Programs for the Harris County Hospital District. Ms. Reyes has been with the Harris County Healthcare District since 1979 and has served a wide range of duties, from Head Nurse to Administrative Coordinator to Administrative Assistant. Ms. Reyes received her BS in Nursing, went on the USC to do graduate work as Public Administrator, and then the MS in Family Nurse Practitioner from Texas Women's University. In her current role, she is responsible for the administration and direction of the Community Health Program, which encompasses eleven comprehensive community-based health centers. The sites provide access to primary care services, including adult and pediatric services. On-site nutrition, social services, chaplaincy, screening services, and health education are provided on a scheduled basis. This nationally recognized program operates 2 mobile vans for homeless individuals; a mobile van (TroubleShooting for Health) which provides immunizations throughout the year; and a School-Based Program operating in six school districts and providing pediatric and adolescent services in health care in eight schools located in Houston/Harris County.

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Rosa Tang, MD, MPH

MedicalDirector, Neuro-Ophthalmology of Texas

Dr. Rosa Tang is board certified in Ophthalmology. She received her M.D. at C. Heredia University in Lima, Peru. Her Medicine internship was at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Internal Medicine residency at the University of Miami, Ophthalmology residency at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health, specializing in Health Promotion and Prevention. She is a current fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (A.A.O.), the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, the American Telemedicine Association (A.T.A.), Research to Prevent Blindness and the American Board of Forensic Examiners. Neuro-Ophthalmology deals with diagnostically challenging cases. Dr. Tang examines patients with rheumatologic, toxic, oncologic, metabolic, endocrine, infectious, and other medical diseases. She has expertise in differentiating these medical conditions from intrinsic neurologic or ophthalmic diseases that affect the eye and brain leading to neuro-ophthalmic problems. The etiology of vision and visual field loss, unusual eye complaints or visual phenomena, ptosis,diplopia, abnormal pupils and eye movements, ocular, periocular and associated head pain are some of the conditions which Dr. Tang evaluates in adults.

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Carlos Vallbona, MD

Professor, Family & Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Carlos Vallbona is a Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine as well as the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is the former Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and he is Chief of Staff of the Community Health Program of the Harris County Hospital District. Also, he is an adjunct professor of preventive medicine and a faculty associate with the center for Health Promotion Research that UT Health Science Center at Houston. A native of Barcelona, Spain, he received his M.D. in 1950 and completed his residency training in pediatrics at the University of Paris, France; the University of Louisville, Kentucky; and the Baylor College of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and has been on the Baylor faculty since 1956. Among his various other achievements and pursuits, Dr. Vallbona has collaborated with NASA in the study of cardiac function of astronauts before and during the Gemini space flights. With many positions held throughout the U.S.'s national medical groups, he has served on various study sections of the National Institutes of Health and that National Center for Health Services Research, consulting also for the National Center of Health Statistics, World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, and other governmental and private institutions in the USA and abroad. To highlight some of the major honors of his careers, he has been given the Outstanding Faculty Award on 5 different occasions (elected by BCM students), awarded the Cross of Officer of the Order of Civilian Merit by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and elected the Distinguished Service Professor by the BCM's Board of Trustees.

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Louise Villejo

President, Hispanic Health Coalition, Houston

Louise Villejo has been involved in improving the health of the Latino community for over 35 years. She is one of the founders and current president of the Hispanic Health Coalition in Houston, Texas. The Hispanic Health Coalition has been instrumental in promoting the health of the Hispanic through education, advocacy, and research. The Hispanic Health Coalition has established collaborations with local, regional, and national agencies to promote healthy eating and exercise and to reduce smoking among Hispanic families. Ms. Villejo is currently executive director of Patient Education Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center since 1992. In this position, she directs a broad range of patient and family-centered care initiatives, performance improvement and patient education programs that actively engage patients, families, and clinical staff in collaborative partnerships. In this capacity, Ms. Villejo has assisted in the writing and publishing of over 200 patient-education booklets and videotapes designed for low literate and minority populations. She is a frequent consultant to national health care organizations, hospitals, & private industry and has spoken and published in the area of patient education and cultural diversity in health care. Ms. Villejo has served on advisory boards for the Surgeon General, the National Cancer Institute, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, REDES en Accion, and the UT Texas-Mexico Border Health Initiative.

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_Macarita Coronado Young_

Nutritionist, HISD (Ret.)

Mrs. Macarita Coronado Young is a retired Nutritionist and Supervisor for HISD, where she spent 24 years of her career advising and revising on the HISD menus used throughout the entire school district. Originally from Benavides, Texas, Mrs. Young attended Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio, Texas, where she became interested in Nutrition. She subsequently did her Dietitian Internship with the VA Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. After completing her MS in Nutrition at the University of Houston, Mrs. Young continued with post-graduate studies at the UT School of Public Health. She has been a Faculty Member at Texas Women's University for ten years from 1962-1972. Between 1963 and 1967, Mrs. Young conducted Nutrition Education for Amigos de las Americas. She also was the recipient of a US government contract to teach Nutrition to the indigenous populations of Guatemala from 1973 to 1978.