The 2009 NMQF Summit on Health Disparities and Spring Health Braintrust
Event Details
April 27–28, 2009
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC
Address:
1150 22nd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Summit Agenda
Leadership Awards Reception and Dinner Program
Booker T. Washington Luncheon
BioSketches
Summit Content
Day 1: April 27
Opening Plenary: Minority Consumers in the US Health Care Marketplace: The Paradigm Shift Begins
Mohammad N. Akhter, MD, MPH: “The Role of Comparative Effectiveness in Health Care Reform” View Presentation
Joint Community and Policy Session 1. Comparative Effectiveness: Closing the Disparity Gap?
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD: “Comparative Effectiveness: Closing the Quality Gap?” View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 1. Evidence-Based Solutions to Eliminating CVD Disparities
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA: “Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease” View Presentation
Kirk Geter, DPM: “Diagnose and Treat Peripheral Arterial Disease” View Presentation
Joint Community and Policy Session 2. Diabetes in Medicare
Enrique Caballero, MD: “Diabetes Care in the U.S.: A 2009 Vision” View Presentation
Gail Nunlee-Bland, MD: “Diabetes Treatment Center: Howared University Hospital” View Presentation
Jay Hedlund: “Screening Seniors for Diabetes: Why and How?” View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 2. Reducing Pain Disparities: Treatment Strategies
Edward L. Treadwell, MD: “Pain in Osteoarthritis” View Presentation
Luis R. Espinoza, MD: “Reducing Pain Disparities: Treatment Strategies-RA” View Presentation
Carolyn Barley Britton, MD, MS: “The Neurology of HIV Infection” View Presentation
Joint Community and Policy Session 3. Evidence-Based Approaches to Eliminating Cardiovascular Disease Disparities
Jack Lewin, MD: “Registries to Reduce Disparities” View Presentation
Kevin Heffernan, PhD: “Racial Differences in Central Blood Pressure” View Presentation
Rani Whitfield, MD: “Power to End Stroke Awareness Campaign” View Presentation
Booker T. Washington Luncheon
Tom Insel, MD: “No Health without Mental Health: The NIMH Perspective on Disparities” View Presentation
Bambi Gaddist, PhD: “Southern AIDS Living Quilt—Join the Fight” View Presentation
Joint Community and Policy Session 4: Reimbursement in Medicare: Impact on CKD Patients
JoVonn Givens, MPH: “Chronic Kidney Disease Quality Initiative” View Presentation
Meredith Mathews, MD, MPH: “Reimbursement in Medicare: Impact on CKD Patients” View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 3. Impact of Diabetes in Minorities
James R. Gavin III, MD, PhD: “The Changing Face of Diabetes in African Americans: Urgency for a New Approach” View Presentation
Kenyatta Lee, MD: “Diabetes Rapid Access Program (D-RAP) Disease Management Prototype” View Presentation
Joint Community and Policy Session 5. Improving Quality of Care in Our 21st-Century Health System
Deborah E. Jones, PhD, RN: “Community Health Partnership: It’s in Our Hands” View Presentation
Alethia Jackson: “Creating A High-Value Health Care System” View Presentation
Roba Whiteley: “Bridging Health Disparities: Helping Uninsured Minorities Access Prescription Medicines” View Presentation
Anne Wilkins: “Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index” View Presentation
Closing Plenary: The HIV/AIDS Atlas
Carl W. Dieffenbach, PhD: “The NIAID Integrated Prevention Research Program” View Presentation
Town Hall Meeting and Dinner: Health Care Reimbursement: A Time for Reform?
Tammy Banks: “Diagnosis and Cure for the Broken Claims Process” View Presentation
David J. Satin, MD: “The Impact of Pay for Performance on Healthcare Disparities” View Presentation
Richard Allen Williams, MD: “A Universal Code of Conduct for Health Insurers: Is There a Need?” View Presentation
Day 2: April 28
Opening Plenary: CBC Health Braintrust
Opening Session and Morning Panel, featuring Congressman Danny Davis, Congressman John Lewis, and Congresswoman Donna M. Christensen
Congresswoman Donna Christensen: “The Emerging Majority and the U.S. Health Care System: The Paradigm Shift Begins” View Presentation
Gary Puckrein, PhD: Day 2 Opening Plenary Presentation View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 4. The Challenges of Mental Health Disparities
James A. Blumenthal, PhD: “Depression as a New Risk Factor for Coronary Hearth Disease: Implications for Minority Health” View Presentation
Philip Wang, MD, DrPH: “Addressing Disparities in Mental Health Care” View Presentation
CBC Health Braintrust Session I. Health Equity and the Changing Demographics in America: Why Health Disparities Should Be Relevant to Everyone
Beth Landon: “Health Disparities in Rural and Frontier America” View Presentation
Eleanor Hinton Hoytt: “Is Inequality Making Black Women Sick?” View Presentation
Cara V. James, PhD: “2009 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS: Findings on the Domestic Epidemic” View Presentation
CBC Health Braintrust Session II. Health Policy in Every Policy: Tackling the Social Determinants of Health
Tracie L. Washington, Esq: “Health Policy in Every Policy: Linking Housing and Health Disparities in New Orleans” View Presentation
Dennis Andrulis: “Health and the Importance of Place: Poverty, Social Determinants and Their Influence on Disparities” View Presentation
Robert S. Ogilvie, PhD: “Changing the Built Environment So That the Healthy Choice Becomes the Easy Choice” View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 5. HIV/AIDS: A Minority Health Issue
Goulda A. Downer, PhD, RD, LN, CNS: “A Systems Thinking Approach to Reducing HIV/AIDS Disparities within Communities of Color” View Presentation
CBC Health Braintrust Session III. Community-Centric Health Equity Efforts: A Spotlight on Place Matters
Nancy Norman, MD, MPH: “Taking Action to Eliminate Health Inequities in Boston” View Presentation
Greg Hodge, JD: “Addressing the Root Causes of Health Inequities through a Local Policy Agenda” View Presentation
Clinical CME Session 6. Advances in Reducing Cancer Disparities
Jo Anne Zujewski: “Health Disparities Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment” View Presentation
Wayne A. I. Frederick, MD, FACS: “Disparities in Outcomes for Major Surgical Oncology Procedures” View Presentation
Special Presentation
Lonnel Coats: “Views on Chronic Diseases in Minority Communities: Findings from a National Survey of African American and Hispanic Adults on Alzheimer’s Disease” View Presentation
