Dr. Richard Deming, medical director of Mercy Cancer Center and founder of the nonprofit Above + Beyond Cancer, will be a keynote speaker at the Healthiest State Initiative’s “Taking Back Our Health” Conference on June 18. He will be joining Mark Fenton, a nationally known public health, planning and transportation consultant, who was announced last month as a keynote speaker. Deming is known in Greater Des Moines for his passion for his patients and their families; he spends countless hours being an advocate for lobbying efforts on healthy policy and cancer issues. The conference, to be held at Des Moines University, will provide a number of updates and tools for businesses to help make their workplaces and employees healthier. For more information and to register, click here.