Conference Program

7:00–8:00 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00–10:00 am

Former Surgeons General Keynote Panel

• Confronting Childhood Obesity in America: Implications for Health Policy and Health Justice

10:00–10:30 am
Break/Exhibits

10:30 am–12:00
Concurrent A Sessions: (Choose One)

• Innovation in Oral Health Access

• Immediate and Long Term Solutions to the Healthcare Professional Shortage in America

• Patient Centered Care...and Provider Retention

• Promotion of Health Justice in Research

• U.S. Immigration Policy and Human Rights: Implication for the Health and Safety of Immigrant Workers

• Advocating Effectively for the Underserved

12:00–1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:30–3:00 p.m.

Concurrent B Sessions: (Choose One)

• Student-Run Initiatives to Build Healthcare Access

• The Healthcare Impact of Stigmatization on Individuals with Disabilities

• Health Care Innovations Exchange

• Emergent Integrative Health Services for Community Health Center Patients

• Common Ground, Common Good, Common Sense: A Process for Developing Health Care Reform

• Advancing Healthcare for Those Most at Risk

3:00–3:30 p.m.

Break/Exhibits

3:30–5:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: Fostering Justice in Healthcare

• Kitty Ernst, CNM—One Birth at a Time: How Midwives are Making the World a Better Place

• Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH—Harnessing a Passion for Change: The Clinicians’ Role in Promoting Health Justice

5:30–7:00 p.m.

Reception

7:00–8:00 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00–9:30 am

Plenary Session: Voices for Change

• Don Warne, MD, MPH—American Indian Health Policy and Health Disparities

• John Rich, MD— Trauma, Urban Violence and African American Men: Envisioning New Pathways to Healing

9:30–10:00 am

Break/Exhibits

10:00 am–11:30 am

Concurrent C Sessions: (Choose One)

• Health Risk at the End of the Occupational Stream

• Understanding and Preventing Compassion Fatigue

• Harnessing Technology for Good

• Tobacco Cessation in Underserved Populations: “Clinical Pearls”

• Hot Topics in Primary Care

• The Primary Care Shortage: Symptom of Societal Problems

11:30–1:15 p.m.

Lunch Speaker

• Ellen Beck, MD—Renewing Ourselves

1:30–3:00 p.m.

Concurrent D Sessions: (Choose One)

• Birthing Options: Advancing Reproductive Services for Those In Need

• Improving Healthcare Access for Commercial Sex Workers and Sexually Exploited Minors

• Fighting for Healthcare Justice in Newly Emerging Communities

• Serving the Unique Needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Communities

• Talking the Talk: Serving People with Limited English Proficiency in the Health Care Setting

• Reshaping the Public Health Landscape to Break Down Barriers to Health Equity

3:00–3:30 p.m.

Break/Exhibits

3:30–5:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: Finding our Strength

• Jack Geiger, MD— How Far We Have Come: Changing the Face of Health Care

• Lawrence Brown, PhD—The Amazing Non-Collapsing U.S. Healthcare System

• Gloria Wilder, MD, MPH—Five Keys To Social Justice  

6:30-9:00

Vigil for Healthcare Justice—Downtown DC

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