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Chronic Disease
New Jersey Launches New Effort to Fight Chronic Disease
September 28th, 2008
Leading experts and organizations in the health care, business, faith and labor communities came together today to launch the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD), a coalition committed to making the issue of chronic disease one of the key health care issues in the nation. The PFCD is led nationally by Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006) and Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., Chair, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a former White House health policy advisor. Dr. Carmona traveled to East Brunswick and Camden, New Jersey today to kick off the local effort. "We have a 'sick care' system, not a health...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-09-28)
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