April 10, 2013

Victor Strecher, M.D.
Physician and Social Entrepreneur

Dr. Victor Strecher is working in the University of Michigan School of Public Health to create an environment that promotes more direct dissemination of research and teaching efforts to improve the public’s health nationally and globally.

In 1998, Dr. Strecher founded HealthMedia Inc., an Ann Arbor-based company that has grown to over 185 employees, developing and disseminating award-winning tailored health interventions for health promotion, disease prevention, behavioral health, and disease management to millions of users through health plans, employers, pharmaceutical companies and governments in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 HealthMedia Inc. was purchased by Johnson & Johnson as their initial investment in the area of wellness and prevention. Dr. Strecher and the organizations he founded – the University of Michigan Center for Health Communications Research and HealthMedia, Inc – have won numerous national and international awards including the Secretary of Health and Human Services Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Since 1995, Dr. Strecher has been a Professor in the UM School of Public Health and until 2009, Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Strecher founded the UM Center for Health Communications Research, a collaborative research-focused organization of health and behavioral scientists, educators, software engineers, and artists. Through this Center, Dr. Strecher has been a leading investigator on over $45 million in grant-funded studies of computer-based interactive communications for health-related behavior change and decision-making.

Sullenger Dialogue with Victor Strecher, M.D.

Sponsored by the UM-Flint School of Health Professions and Studies

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
10:00 a.m.
Harding Mott University Center Michigan Rooms