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Columns::January 28, 2002
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Former White House chief of staff to speak at annual conference
By Nadine Randall
diniran@aol.com
Former White House chief of staff and expert on health issues Hamilton Jordan will be a featured speaker at the 2002 Public
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Service and Outreach conference, “Bridging Research and Outreach for a Better Georgia and Nation,” to be held Jan. 31 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The conference is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Jordan, a native Georgian who successfully battled three different types of cancer before the age of 50, is the author of two bestsellers. He has also launched an NFL franchise, was named “Sport Executive of the Year” for founding the ATP Tour (the global men’s professional tennis tour), and has created and advised many successful companies, mainly in the health and biotechnology sectors.
Jordan directed Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976 and served as chief of staff in the Carter White House during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran. His first bestseller, Crisis (1982), tells the story of Carter’s secret negotiations to free the American hostages in Iran and Jordan’s role in the process.
Jordan first became active on the medical front in 1982 when he and his wife founded the Camp Sunshine retreat, in Maine, for children with cancer and leukemia. They have since begun a similar program in Georgia, Camp Kudzu, for children suffering from juvenile diabetes, a disease that afflicts their own daughter.
In 1985, Jordan was diagnosed with his first cancer, lymphoma, followed by prostate cancer in 1995 and melanoma a short time later. In numerous television and magazine articles, Jordan has related how the same determination that helped him run Carter’s successful electoral campaign aided his battle with cancer. His latest bestseller, No Such Thing as a Bad Day (2000), describes his life as a cancer survivor.
Jordan is now a member of the board of visitors of Emory University and is on the boards of the Lasker Foundation, the Brady Clinic of Johns Hopkins University and First Funding, a national initiative to increase federal funding of basic medical research.
Yvonne Maddox, acting deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, will also speak at the conference. Maddox oversees NIH initiatives including Quality of Worklife programs, the expansion of the agency’s clinical research program and the development of strategic research plans to eliminate gaps in health among minority and underserved populations. She also serves as deputy director of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of Health and Human Services, has also been invited as a keynote speaker.
UGA researchers will present case studies relating to technology, water, health and agriculture at the conference. Other speakers include Cindy R. Ogletree, assistant director of sponsored programs in the research office, and Jim Clinton, executive director of the Southern Growth Policies Board and director of the Southern Technology Council in Raleigh, N.C.
This year’s recipients of the Walter Barnard Hill Awards will also be announced at a luncheon banquet as part of the conference.
Registration fee for the conference is $40. To register, or for more information, contact Melanie Baer at 542-4643 or melanie_baer@gactr.uga.edu.
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