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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of all deaths each year in the United States are attributed to poor eating habits, lack of physical activity and tobacco use. And in North Carolina, schools, workplaces and even the state are working to reduce these numbers by promoting preventive healthcare measures such as good eating habits, daily exercise, and avoiding tobacco.
These preventive measures -- programs that promote healthy living and can ultimately reduce the cost of healthcare -- have become an integral part of everyday life for some North Carolinians. Preventive healthcare, however, also includes cancer screenings and procedures that are costly and may not be covered by insurance or are unavailable to those without medical coverage. If preventive measures reduce the cost of healthcare, should insurance companies cover more? Should preventive healthcare be available to all North Carolinians, even those without insurance?
On Healthwise: the State of Preventive Healthcare in North Carolina, a panel of experts try to answer these questions and explain why preventive healthcare is important for all North Carolinians. The panel also discusses the current state of preventive healthcare in North Carolina, prevention programs across the state and the future of preventive healthcare. In addition, panelists answer viewer questions about prevention.
 Bob Greczyn
President and CEO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Click here for the BCBSNC State of Preventive Medicine Report.
Bob Greczyn currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), the state's largest health insurer. Greczyn earned a Masters of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from East Carolina University. He also completed the executive program in health care finance management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his role at BCBSNC, Greczyn serves on both the Board of Trustees for BCBSNC and on the board of the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. In addition, he is campaign chair of Be Active North Carolina, a grassroots physical fitness campaign designed to help North Carolinians live healthy and active lifestyles.
Greczyn also chairs the UNC School of Public Health's "Carolina First" Campaign Committee and has been named to the board of directors for North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Policy Research has named Greczyn a research fellow. He serves on the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Advisory Board, East Carolina University's Board and the board of the Triangle United Way. Greczyn is also a director of the N.C. Institute of Medicine and past chair of the March of Dimes' Walk America.
 Dr. Leah Devlin
State Health Director
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Division of Public Health
Dr. Leah Devlin received her dental degree and master's degree in public health administration at the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus. At UNC she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the School of Public Health's honor society. Dr. Devlin began her professional career at the Wake County Department of Health as a dentist in 1979. In 1986 she became Director of the Wake County Department of Health serving for ten years. Dr. Devlin joined the NC Department of Health & Human Services in 1996, and after five years with the Division of Public Health, she began serving as State Health Director in 2001.
 Meg Molloy, DrPH, MPH, RD
Executive Director
North Carolina Prevention Partners
Molloy's career includes 20 years in prevention, health behavior change, and health policy with a focus on nutrition, physical activity and tobacco prevention and cessation. She has worked in multiple health sectors including nonprofit leadership, media, policy development, consulting business, state and local public health, and nutrition practice, teaching and research within the UNC School of Public Health, Duke University Medical Center and School of Medicine.
Meg Molloy earned DrPH in the Department of Health Policy and Administration with a minor in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Public Health Leadership Fellow (1996). A decade earlier, she received an MPH in Nutrition from UNC-Chapel Hill (1985). Her bachelor's degree is in Biology from the University of Louisville (1983).
 Robert S. (Bob) Parker
Vice President, Home and Community Health
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Member, Health and Wellness Trust Fund -Tobacco Related Healthcare Issues
Mr. Parker was appointed as Vice President for Home and Community Health in March of 1997. Prior to coming to North Carolina Baptist Hospital, he served as Public Health Director in the New Hanover County Health Department for 14 years. In New Hanover County, he helped organize the New Hanover Community Health Center, which is a primary health care center for the medically underserved area of Wilmington and the surrounding community.
Mr. Parker has served nationally on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, the Board of Directors of the National Association for Home Care, and the Board of Directors of the National Association for County and City Health Officials. He has been president of the North Carolina Public Health Association, the North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors, and the Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina. Currently, Mr. Parker is a member of the NC Public Health Study Commission, the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission, the American Hospital Association's (AHA) member on the JCAHO Home Care Professional & Technical Advisory Committee, the AHA Section on Long-term Care & Rehabilitation, and chair of the Forsyth County Infant Mortality Reduction Coalition.
 Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Public Health Sciences/Epidemiology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Small Steps program
Dr. Whitt-Glover is an Assistant Professor in the Section on Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She holds degrees in Exercise Physiology (B.A., M.A.) and Epidemiology (Ph.D.) from the Universities of North and South Carolina, respectively. Dr. Whitt-Glover’s research interests include physical activity assessment and lifestyle behavioral interventions related to increasing physical activity levels among African Americans. She currently serves as either the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for several research studies designed to identify effective strategies to increase weight loss and weight gain prevention among African Americans, and to promote adherence to national recommendations for nutrition and physical activity. Dr. Whitt-Glover is currently conducting a church-based intervention to promote physical activity among sedentary African Americans in Winston Salem, NC. Dr. Whitt-Glover is also actively involved in several initiatives to promote physical activity among African Americans, most notably serving as the Co-Chair for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National African American Physical Activity (NAAPA) Task Force and Co-Convener of the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN).
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