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www.championsofhealth.org
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VOLUME
6 ISSUE 4 |
Champions of Health is an e-newsletter published to highlight public health initiatives and partnerships with
organizations working together for a healthier Oklahoma. |
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Last
chance! Reservations accepted through
Friday, Nov. 6
Five
winners will be honored in Tulsa on Nov. 17
Make reservations to attend the sixth annual
Champions of Health awards ceremony on Tuesday,
Nov. 17 at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel
and Convention Center. The event reunites
Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis
as keynote speaker with local attorney and Flash
Point political talk show co-host Mike Turpen as
emcee. Reservations are $30 each and will be
accepted through Friday, Nov. 6. Call (866)
876-4376 to make your reservation today. VISA
and MasterCard are accepted.
The
Champions of Health awards program is
presented by Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma,
the Oklahoma
Hospital Association, the Oklahoma
Osteopathic Association, the Oklahoma
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services, the Oklahoma
State Department of Health and the Oklahoma
State Medical Association.
For information
about sponsorships, go to the sponsorship page
at www.championsofhealth.org
or contact Ivy Lark at (918) 551-3397.
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Champions
of Health keynote speaker:
Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis
Before being named OSU President, Burns Hargis had a long and distinguished legal and business career, with active civic and philanthropic leadership across many fronts. He also is familiar to many Oklahomans through the political perspective and wit he provided on the award-winning television program
Flash Point.
Prior to coming to OSU, he was vice chairman of Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. Before joining Bank of Oklahoma in 1997, Hargis practiced law in Oklahoma City for 28 years, most recently with the firm of McAfee & Taft. He is a former president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, former president of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Hargis served as
vice chairman of the Oklahoma State Election Board, the Oklahoma Constitutional Revision Commission, and served as Chairman of the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services. He is a former member of the Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Hargis was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oklahoma in 1990.
Hargis and his wife, Ann, have two married children and three grandchildren.
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Champions
of Health emcee:
Local attorney and Flash Point co-host Mike
Turpen
In 1982 Mike Turpen was elected attorney general
for the state of Oklahoma. He served as Muskogee
County District Attorney from 1977 to 1982. Since
1987, Turpen has been a partner in the law
firm of Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison
& Lewis in Oklahoma City.
While no longer serving in public office, Turpen remains politically active. He appears
weekly on Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR’s
award-winning public affairs show, Flash Point
with Turpen & Humphreys. He appeared
twice on ABC’s Politically Incorrect
with Bill Maher and was featured on
PBS’s national documentary, Vote for Me:
Politics in America. He had a long-running
monthly column,Turpen Time, for the OPEA
monthly newspaper and was a featured columnist
for Microsoft’s internet magazine, Slate. Turpen is a nationally sought after public
speaker, having keynoted conferences of the
National Association of Attorneys General, the
Fourth Federal Judicial Circuit, and the
National Family and Juvenile Judges’
Association.
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2009
Champions of Health award winners announced
Tulsa County Recycled Medication Program
has been named the Community Health Champion and recipient of
the 2009 Rodney L. Huey, M.D., Memorial Champion of Oklahoma
Health award, the highest honor of the Champions of Health
awards.
This
sixth-annual awards program recognizes outstanding organizations
and individuals dedicated to improving the health of
Oklahomans. The Recycled Medication Program serves as a
model for the public-private volunteer physician partnership and
is the first program in the nation to legally “recycle”
unused prescription drugs from nursing homes to charity clinics.
Read about the Recycled Medication Program
and the four other winners to be honored on the Champions of
Health Web site, www.championsofhealth.org.
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About
the venue:
Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention
Center
2009 marks the first year
for the Champions of Health awards to take place
in a Tulsa venue. Find
out more about the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and
Convention Center online.
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Champions of Health
e-newsletter
Editor:
Sarah Gatlin
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