Erin Thompson Curlett, Content & Social Media Manager, Marketing:
We are very pleased to announce that our upcoming webinar, The Economic Impacts of Obesity in the Workplace – And, What You Can Do About It, will be presented by Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, Director of the Emory University Institute for Health and Productivity Studies (IHPS) and Vice President of Consulting and Applied Research for Thomson Reuters. Dr. Goetzel is a nationally recognized expert and is widely published in health and productivity management, return-on-investment, program evaluation, and outcomes research.
IHPS is a collaborative established between the Rollins School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory University and the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters. At IHPS, Dr. Goetzel leads innovative research projects and consulting services for clients interested in the relationship between worksite productivity and employee health and wellbeing. His work helps inform decision makers in both the private and public health sectors on issues related to the health and productivity cost burden of certain health risk factors and common disease conditions, and the impact that innovative health and productivity management programs have on medical and productivity-related outcomes.
Before joining Thomson Reuters (formerly Medstat) in 1995, Dr. Goetzel was Vice President of Assessment, Data Analysis and Evaluation Services at Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems. Dr. Goetzel was one of the original members of the core development and marketing group at Corporate Health Strategies, currently a division of Ingenix. Earlier in his career, Dr. Goetzel was the Medical School Education Program Evaluator at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was appointed to the Psychiatry faculty.
Dr. Goetzel earned his doctorate in Organizational and Administrative Studies and his M.A. in Applied Social Psychology from New York University, and his B.S. degree in Psychology from the City College of New York.
Register here for the complimentary webinar, The Economic Impacts of Obesity in the Workplace – And, What You Can Do About It, presented Wednesday, November 16 and Friday, December 2 at 11:00am PST.