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The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) is a coalition of hundreds of patient, provider, community, business and labor groups, and health policy experts, committed to raising awareness of the number one cause of death, disability and rising health care costs: chronic disease.

The forum on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 in San Jose, CA included discussion of the Chronic Disease Challenge in California and the Nation, The Feedback Loop: Improving Human Behavior, a moderated discussion reacting to the presentations from perspective of public programs/employers and a motivational health talk, Your Best Life.

Speakers included:

Dr. Travis Stork, MD, Healthy Lifestyle Author; Emergency Room Physician and Host, "The Doctors"
Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, Wired Magazine
Dr. Kent Bradley, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Safeway
Steve Skurnac, President, Sims Recycling Solutions
Dr. Julie Andersen, PhD, Professor and Researcher, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Dr. John Farquhar, MD, Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy, Founder and Senior Faculty Member, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Sandra Perez, Director, California Office of the Patient Advocate
Micah Weinberg, Senior Policy Advisor, Bay Area Council

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, Chairman, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University

MODERATOR
Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs