Program
The Movement is Life Summit is a collaborative event bringing together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to discuss healthy equity challenges and solutions. The Summit program features nationally known speakers who are experts on health disparities and social determinants of health. Summit attendees engage with speakers and each other during interactive workshops focused on social issues as well as creative movement activities.
View the schedule at-a-glance for the 2023 Summit below. Schedule is subject to change.
All times are in Eastern Standard Time.
Thursday, November 30, 2023*
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Vori Health
Chair, Movement is Life
Professor, Health Behavior and Education, University of Michigan
Author, “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society”
Founding Dean, Roseman University of Health Sciences
Recipient, President Medal of Freedom (2009) and MacArthur Fellow (1993-1998)
- Mark Sendak, MD, Population Health and Data Science Lead, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
- William Jordan, MD, Director of Health Equity Policy, AMA Center for Health Equity
- Rebecca Johnson Stone, Founder, Generation 7 Industries
- Joel Bervell, Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
- Taelor Bakewell, Edelman PR
- Ricardo Correa, MD, Members of the Council on Medical Education, University of Arizona College of Medicine
- Beth O’Connor, M. Ed., Executive Director, VA Rural Health Association
- David Sabgir, MD, Founder, Walk with a Doc
- Semilla Cultural, Puerto Rican culture and arts community organization
- Al B. Reid, Former VP Corporate Development, Abbott Laboratories
- Velma Monteiro-Tribble, Former Director of Grants and Programs, Florida Blue Foundation
- D. Deone Powell, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, Vanguard Charitable
We offer Community-Based and Academic Organizations the opportunity to exhibit posters at the meeting. The goal of the poster exhibit is to provide an opportunity to increase awareness of the various community-based and academic programs addressing health disparities and to provide an opportunity to network.
Associate Provost for Community Affairs, Rush University
Author, “The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills”
Friday, December 1, 2023*
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Vori Health
Chair, Movement is Life
Founder, Parity Homes
Fellow, Fund for New Leadership
Chief Medical Officer, Kroger Health
California Surgeon General
Executive Medical Director, Oak Street Health
Dean and Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University
Founding Director, Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health
20th United States Surgeon General (2017-2021)
Presidential Fellow, Executive Director of Purdue's Health Equity Initiatives, and Distinguished Professor of Practice, Purdue University
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Vori Health
Chair, Movement is Life
*please note this schedule is not final and is subject to change*