Dr. Mehmet Oz and Anthem Blue Cross President Pam Kehaly to Visit Hiram Johnson High School to Judge HealthCorps
WHAT:
HealthCorps®’ (www.healthcorps.org) three ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ-based
Coordinators and students at Hiram Johnson High School will
organize a healthy breakfast competition for a panel of
distinguished judges, including HealthCorps Chairman Dr. Mehmet
Oz, heart surgeon and Emmy® Award-winning talk show host, his
wife Lisa Oz , Anthem Blue Cross President Pam Kehaly and
ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ King’s Assistant Coach, Bobby Jackson. The
Healthy Breakfast Challenge will involve four teams of students
who will compete in creating a quick and healthy breakfast in
less than ten minutes. Competing students represent the
HealthCorps after school program and 9th and 10th grade English
classes that wrote Dr. Oz and invited him to visit their school.
HealthCorps’ in-school peer mentoring program is established at three ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ high schools: Hiram Johnson, ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ Charter, and Luther Burbank High Schools. Launched in New York City in 2003, HealthCorps is building a health movement and administers its educational program in 53 high schools in 13 states. In 2011, the nonprofit opened a West Coast Office in ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ to oversee its expanding national high school network and forge stronger bonds with major supporters in the region. HealthCorps was co-founded by Dr. Oz and Lisa Oz.
WHO:
Prominent guests expected to attend include:
• Talk Show host Montel Williams
• Hiram Johnson High School Principal Felisberto Cedros
• Former New York State First Lady Michelle Paige Patterson
• HealthCorps President Michelle Bouchard.
WHEN:
Monday, April 30 from 9: 30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Editorial, photo and video coverage invited. All media must be
credentialed and sign in upon arrival. Press sign in begins at
8:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Hiram Johnson High School 6879 14th Avenue, ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ, CA
95823 in Cafeteria