Honorary Keynote Speakers
Opening Ceremony - June 14, 2011 - 1:30 - 3:00 pm - Anasazi Ballroom
J. Neil Henderson, Ph.D. (Oklahoma Choctaw)
Professor - College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterDirector - American Indian Diabetes Prevention CenterBio coming soon...
Closing Ceremony - June 17, 2011 - 12:00 - 1:30 pm - Anasazi Ballroom
Kenneth C. Copeland, M.D.
Ruth and Paul Jonas Endowed Chair Chief, Section of Diabetes and EndocrinologyVice Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Ambulatory AffairsDirector, Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center – Children’s Professor of PediatricsUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterDr. Copeland has been a Pediatric Endocrinologist for 33 years, and a faculty member at OU since 1999. After graduating from Baylor University in Waco and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he moved to Vanderbilt for his pediatric training, followed by Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrine specialty training in Geneva, Switzerland and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Work subsequently took them to Medical School jobs at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Vermont, and Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. In 1999, Dr. Copeland moved to Oklahoma, allowing Dr. Copeland a chance to realize a long–standing dream of working with American Indians in the fight against diabetes. For the last decade, Dr. Copeland has developed formal partnerships with tribes across the state, including the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the Cherokees, the Absentee Shawnee, the Citizen Pottawatomie, and the Cheyenne/Arapahoe. Weekly since 2000, he and his team of diabetes educators and dietitians travel to diabetes clinics for Indian children in Talihina, Ada, Little Ax, Shawnee, or El Reno. Since 2002, Dr. Copeland has partnered with these same tribes, leading NIH-sponsored clinical research related to the new epidemic of type 2 diabetes, most prevalent in American Indian populations.
Dr. Copeland has been an active researcher, having authored approximately 125 scientific papers, book chapters, and editorials, including the first national ADA standards for care of children with type 1 diabetes. One of the highlights of his career was serving as President of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the national society of pediatric endocrinologists in 2006-2007.