7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast
Breakfast Roundtable Discussions

8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Ceremony
U.S. Marine Corp Band and Honor Guard (Invited)
Greetings

• Hon. Margaret Giannini, Chair, 9th Congress and Director, Office on Disability, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. (Invited)
• Alex M. Azar II, Deputy Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Invited)
• Richard McKeown, Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Invited)
• Lloyd Feinberg, Manager, Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, USAID, U.S.

Keynote Address

Vivian Fernández de Torrijos, First Lady of Panamá

9:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Break

Panels

Sessions will address the role of families and communities in building cross-disciplinary systems of support that integrate health, education, recreation, and social realms of life for children and young adults.

9:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Panel One: Promoting full access to community life

Moderator: Bonnie Strickland, Acting Director, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S.

Panel Members:

• Joan Agostinelli, Linda Hamman, Becky Hamblin, Kim Stamper, Arizona Department of Health Services, U.S.
• Calvin Sia, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, U.S.,
• Chun-bong Chow, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, and Winnie H.S. Goh, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
• Ola Owsiak, Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, Poland

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Questions and Answers

11:45 – 1:00 p.m.

Luncheon Speaker – Preparing Youth for Work

Martin Gerry, Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration, U.S.

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Panel Two: Health and Medicine

Chair: Karen Hofman, Director, Division of Advanced Studies and Policy Analysis, Fogarty International Center, NIH, U.S.
Moderator: Paul Glassman, Professor and Associate Dean, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, California, U.S.

Panel Members:

• Liliana Mayo, Fundadora & Directora General, Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP), Perú
• Ilgi Ertem, Department of Pediatrics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey
• Alexis Reyes, Department of Pediatrics, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines
• Saleh AL- Oraibi, Department of Physical Therapy, AL-Hashemite University, Jordan
• Simona Bar-Haim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Ibtisam Imteer Namourah, The Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre for Disabled Children, Israel

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Questions and Answers

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Panel Three: Expanding educational and vocational opportunities

Moderator: Alexa Posny, Director, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education

Panel Members:

• Peter Evans, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France
• Errol Cocks, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Bagrat Yesayan, Ministry of Education and Sciences, Armenia

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Questions and Answers

Evening

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Distinguished Guest and International Panel Chair
H. R. H. Prince Firas bin Raad, Jordan

Panel of International Speakers:

• Adenike Grange, President-elect, International Pediatricians Association, Nigeria
• Carissa Etienne, Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organization, U.S.
• Elisabeth Ratiu (retired), Fundatii Ratiu Romania
• Inge Ovesen, Director, Nordic Council on Disability Policy, Sweden
• José León-Carrión, Director, University of Seville, Spain
• Eileen Ouellette, Immediate Past President, American Academy of Pediatrics, U.S.

6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Reception – Sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics