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The Bone & Joint Decade
World Network Conference &
Patient Advocacy Seminar |
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Washington DC, USA
October 21-24, 2009
The 2009 Bone and Joint Decade World Network
Conference and Patient Advocacy Seminar took place in Washington DC from 21 to 24 October 2009, hosted by the US BJD. Delegates of the four-day advocacy and strategic planning session,
came together to highlight the enormous burden posed by musculoskeletal disorders and develop an ambitious yet achievable roadmap for the future of bone and joint health policy around the world.
Amidst urgent health care reform talks in Washington DC, timing was right to underline the enormity of the musculoskeletal burden by comparison to the fraction of expenditure currently directed to this area of great need, and to ask policy makers to take action.
Once again the BJD annual
forum brought together 200 Patient Advocacy Leaders and National Action Network
Coordinators from around the globe for a unique, multifaceted programme.
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To view videos of speakers and their
presentations  online, please see:
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Patient Advocacy Day 1: Changing Health Priorities
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
Friday, 23 October 2009
BJD World Network Conference Day 1 Disease Area Strategic Planning Sessions
Saturday, 24 October 2009
BJD World Network Conference Day 2 Regional Strategic Planning Sessions
A photo gallery of select images from the event can be found here.
The focus this year was on Advocacy and Advancing the Bone & Joint Health Policy Agenda. Issues supporting this theme included the global burden of disease by disease area, and regional needs, with dynamic break-out sessions to build synergy and strategies from all perspectives.
Highlights of the events held during the conference included:
 • Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill - Our two-day Patient Advocacy Seminar became a true advocacy and lobbying experience, when BJD Delegates
were welcomed on Capitol Hill by Former Assistant Surgeon General Susan Blumenthal, MD, (left) and Senators John Barrasso (left) and Chuck Grassley for discussions about health care policy reform. US delegates were then given the opportunity to speak to Congress Members from their own States, and international delegates were able to visit their country Ambassadors to the US to discuss musculoskeletal issues relevant in their region. Click here to read reports of each Embassy Visit.
• A very lively and heartfelt speech by television celebrity Jill Zarin, (below with Prof Lidgren) whose daughter suffers from childhood rheumatic disease, about the power of the collective voice and neworks for patient empowerment.
• One-day intensive focus on the Burden of Musculosketelal Disease by disease area, led by internationally renowned experts in the field. This was then followed by strategic planning sessions to focus goals and devise strategies for our efforts in each priority area over the coming years.
• Second-day strategic planning through Regional Discssions
to devise a global plan for musculoskeletal health according to region. Break-out groups crafted straegies and pinpointed priorities for the next decade.
All
speakers’ presentations, workgroup slides and video coverage from the
conference are available for educational use through the following
links:
Patient Advocacy Day 1: Changing Health Priorities
Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
BJD World Network Conference Day 1 Disease Area Strategic Planning Sessions
BJD World Network Conference Day 2 Regional Strategic Planning Sessions
ePosters from the Network Conference can be found here
Photo gallery here.
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